Creating a Pleasant and Supportive Atmosphere in the Classroom
You can create good atmosphere for learning by encouraging risk-taking and lack of fear situations in
the classroom. Encourage your students to ask questions and to be active in initiating communication.
Encourage humor and use it yourself. You can make fun of yourself, but not your students. You may not
say, “Hi Gendut, come here,” just to make your students laugh at a particular student. Encourage learners
to personalize the classroom with pictures. You may want to assign students to make collage about his
family and tell it to their friends.
Developing a Good Relationship with Your Learners
You can do this by remembering learners’ names, showing learners that you care about them as people
and listening to them. To help you remember their name, you ask them to bring a name tag big enough for
you to see. With this name tag, you can call them by name and they will feel closer to you.
Stressing the Benefits that Knowledge of English can Bring
Regularly remind learners that English is useful for their future careers. You can tell them through
stories or experience of different people. Show learners the role that English plays in the world. It is a
global and international language. If they master English, they can go around the world without having
trouble communicating with people. Encourage learners to use English with foreigners if they have the
chance. It is also a good idea if you can invite foreigners to your classroom.
Making the Curriculum and Teaching Materials Relevant
Relate the course materials to everyday experiences of your learners. You need to personalize your
teaching to make it easier for students to understand and to learn. Encourage learners to choose and help
design course materials. In the first meeting, you can ask your students about their interests and,
whenever possible, incorporate them in the learning process. Using authentic materials from local sources
will also be good. If you cannot get the hard paper, you can also browse the online authentic materials.
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