| More For Those Bored, Uninterested, Reluctant Foreign | | | | popular songs for pronunciation practice. While you're |
| Language Learners | | | | at it, if you're not a native speaker of the foreign |
| As we said earlier, once again faced with the | | | | language you're teaching, could YOU use a bit of |
| necessity of circumventing the problems of having | | | | extended pronunciation practice yourself? Don't worry, |
| bored, uninterested and reluctant English as a foreign | | | | I won't tell a soul. It'll be our secret, okay?o Surfing the |
| language learners in your EFL or other foreign | | | | Internet in English |
| language learning class room. We noted before that | | | | Do your learners - whatever their ages and profile |
| motivation of language learners - especially those who | | | | might be - like to play video or computer games? |
| may be in your foreign language class involuntarily, can | | | | Using the internet as an English or foreign language |
| become a major obstacle to your teaching success if | | | | learning tool is now par for the course with scores of |
| you allow class conditions to degenerate. You can | | | | foreign languages. Don't fight your computer-literate |
| however, win them over using these additional | | | | foreign language learners - join them. Let them show |
| dynamic EFL activity types your foreign language | | | | you their computer skills while learning and practicing |
| learners simply won't refuse.o Using Realia as EFL | | | | their English, Spanish, French or Arabic. Both you - and |
| Learning Aids | | | | they - will be glad you did.o Telling Stories, Fables and |
| If you don't have a stash of realia in your class room | | | | Tales |
| for use with your English or foreign language learners | | | | Get yourself a nice, fat book of nursery rhymes, fairy |
| you're either very inexperienced, pidgeon-holed in | | | | tales and children's stories, then let your imagination run |
| traditional methods or are mired in some other | | | | rampant with ways to apply them for building your |
| conditions I won't go into here. "What kind of realia", | | | | English language learners' communicative skills. |
| you ask? Why my dear almost anything and | | | | Dramatize them, re-write them, tell them with a |
| everything can be convertwed into didactic use with | | | | "modern" twist or two. Practice pronunciation with |
| some imagination. Cute little stuffed animals, inflatable | | | | them or allow them to be set to a rhythm or music. |
| plastic or rubber balls, board games and pieces, small | | | | Have fun and watch your English language learners |
| clothing items which can do double duty as drama | | | | practice and grow their language skills as if by magic. |
| props, tableware, throw pillows, along with gizmos and | | | | They won't even have to wear the ruby slippers either. |
| gadgets of all kinds make excellent realia and props | | | | You're Allowed to Enjoy Yourself Too |
| for in-class room applications.onReciting Poetry, | | | | Start your new scholastic year off right, and continue it |
| Rhymes and Raps | | | | in style by using these eight dynamic English as a |
| Did you know that the underlying purpose of many | | | | foreign language activity types your foreign language |
| riddles, rhymes, raps and tongue-twisters is to permit | | | | learners simply won't refuse to get and keep them |
| extensive practice in the pronunciation of consonants, | | | | motivated and having fun in class. By the way, you're |
| vowels, diphthongs and tripthongs in English? Even the | | | | allowed to enjoy yourself too. |
| learners can "excerpt" passages from raps and | | | | |