Article: Classroom speaking challenges: it’s so hard getting the weaker students to join in
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 15 | June 9, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
The OUP ELT blog has published an article dealing with the classroom engagement of weaker students.
Erika Osvath, an experienced teacher and teacher-trainer, explores the third of our Solutions Speaking Challenges: ‘It’s so hard getting the weaker students to join in’.
As I am sitting at my desk thinking over the issue of how to get weaker students to join in, my thoughts keep returning to the same questions:
Who are the weaker students?
What makes them ‘weaker’?
How do I want them to “join in”?