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ive each student a number within the 
group. Depending upon the number assigned, each student does one small portion of the group's 
 for a passage describing 
eans recognizing that your 
tudents have different learning styles, and that whereas some like the hurley-burley of racing against the 
lock or each other, others prefer pacing themselves and work better in a quiet environment. You have to be 
th kinds of learning. 
ting pronunciation through tasks that focus on meaningful 
udents, such as role play, problem solving, and game activities. 
here are five main steps involved in teaching pronunciation: 
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this level of anxiety, and 
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First, you can provide in your classroom a sort of surrogate "family" which offers support and the sort of 
encouragement which leads to independence and enables your students to go out and use English in the 
real world outside of the school compound. 
Second, be specific in your feedback. When you praise a student, do so around a precise po
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English, make sure your explanations are clear and brief and that you deliver them at an appropriate 
moment. 
Third, while including, an element of competitiveness in some of your activities, you should take care to 
prevent this competitiveness from getting out of hand. To balance out the win-lose tendencies, which 
undoubtedly exist in your class, make sure that you are including cooperative activities such as "Two Heads 
Are Better Than
Divide the class into several groups of five to seven and g
work. For example, if your class is working on a project with the agriculture teacher, you could 
give the groups several short passages, each describing an important aspect of agriculture. The 
person who is assigned the number 4 in each group could be responsible for reading the passage