[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Effective interactive activities for advanced adult ESL learners provide multiple exposures to academic vocabulary, elicit their opinions and experiences,…
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Questions are a common way for teachers to check for understanding, right? The answer we’re looking for is “yes.” Who hasn’t questioned a group of students to determine whether or not they understood the content? Unfortunately, not all questions are created equally. We propose four over-arching questions that can be used to scaffold students’ thinking about complex texts. You can tailor these questions to any book that your students are reading:
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Many empirical studies have shown that excessive control from strict, negative rules and punishments and extrinsic rewards for doing the “right thing” can achieve short-term compliance.
But there are costs: It undermines intrinsic motivation, it decreases the overall quality of performance, and it connects continued performance to the availability and delivery of rewards. (more…)