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It can be much harder to learn English when not in an English language environment. You Cannot replicate this in a classroom. Grammar translation draws examples from the native language, but can never allow for real fluency if the learner has to always ?translate? between English and their home language. Audio-lingualism is learning by rote repetition. Presentation practice and production is giving the context for the language, for the students to figure out how sentences are constructed. Task based learning gives the student a task to complete in English. Communicative language teaching uses the everyday utility of language over grammatical rules. Community language learning places students in a circle to converse, being helped by the teacher as necessary. The silent way facilitates learning by intervening as little as possible, and signing when mistakes are made using visual cues, such as coloured rods representing grammatical mistakes. Suggestopaedia focuses on the need to make the student feel comfortable , confident and at-ease, and uses lesson review, presentation, discussion, and relaxing music while the teacher goes over new terms. The Lexical approach uses words and phrases rather than teaching grammatical structure. Which methodology, or combination of methodologies, used depends on your own circumstance, temperament, and what the students are receptive to. You need to engage, study and activate students? interest in language and attention for the lesson. Though such lessons may not always be enough to hold their attention with complex language lessons. Use introduction prompts and let students fill in the spaces. Partner them up to engage with each other in language learning. Play language games to keep their attention like ?fizz bizz? ?alphabet relay? ?seven? ?I spy?, memory games, word linking, alphabet introductions, ?I?m going on holiday and?? ?slow Pictionary? anagrams information search, adapted ?scattergloss? ?my marvellous machine? ?the box game? ?sentence prompts? adjective introductions ?consequences? tongue twisters, hangman, word searches, gap fill, role-play, surveys, producing materials, communication games, debates, story building, etcetera. The teacher then needs to give feedback, and either offer correction or guide in self-correction. The teacher needs to plan all stages of the lesson to facilitate learning, and offer correction where necessary in a way that does not discourage the student.
