TESOL Videos - Teaching Special Groups in ESL - The Types of Beginners

This was an excellent unit because it was chalk-full of activities, which I as a teacher find extremely helpful. I don't want my K-6 students to be bored so if we can dust off an old game, add a twist, or add something entirely new, so much the better! I also haven't come across this particular teaching system (ESA) before, or at least not in so many words; the typical structure I learned for teaching was: warm-up activity, review previous topic/language concept, intro new topic/language concept and practice it, then do an activity to practice it further. So it is similar but wasn't defined in those terms. Perhaps it is a British system or a particular groups. Either way it does make sense. It's interesting, however, how we retain all of those methodologies despite their obvious flaws; it must be so we know where we went wrong. Perhaps it's just to remind us that we need to mix and match to actually be able to teach well. Grammar-translation, for example, can be interesting as an advanced student of language--something I have done myself in a higher German literature class--but is an utter waste in terms of teaching fluent communication. Drills such as those used in the Audio-Lingual methodology are pretty essential to early language learning but they become boring very quickly as learners advance; sadly enough, many countries still use this methodology. In my experience, the s