Thanks a lot for sharing it. It's the great pleasure to see how Scott work with materials, and actually everything is absolutely clear. I practice unplugged teaching from time to time and my students really love it though I see now that what I did wasn't enough. There is (as usually) a room for improvement.
I was always against this kind of teaching as it wasn't the approach that was drilled into me during my CELTA training but then when I learnt Spanish and French, I never wanted to learn those languages the way I teach English and that gave me pause for thought. We overestimate how important teaching ESL and its different methods actually are in my opinion.
Hello everyone, I still have that question in mind of how we can "measure" the learners' progress (from A2 to B1 for example) without a syllabus. Because, apparently, in Teaching Unplugged, there's no syllabus to follow or any kind of testing. Could anyone discuss this point, please?
I thought meta-language isn't needed for strong communicative and unplugged teaching. Here we are again talking on short sentences and phrasal expressions, plus a noisy classroom !
Teaching Unplugged has never rejected the use of meta-language and strongly encourages focus on form (as opposed to focus on forms). On the point of the noisy class, I cannot see the problem.
As always, Scott Thornbury delivers an inspiring, stimulating and enjoyable talk.
Nice, my hope to visit Armenia
Thanks a lot for sharing it. It's the great pleasure to see how Scott work with materials, and actually everything is absolutely clear.
I practice unplugged teaching from time to time and my students really love it though I see now that what I did wasn't enough. There is (as usually) a room for improvement.
Thought provoking and very insightful.
Wow. Thank you Scott Thornbury and thank you CB Armenia for posting this!
This is really nice! Hope i can be a good teacher recently.
I was always against this kind of teaching as it wasn't the approach that was drilled into me during my CELTA training but then when I learnt Spanish and French, I never wanted to learn those languages the way I teach English and that gave me pause for thought. We overestimate how important teaching ESL and its different methods actually are in my opinion.
Hello everyone,
I still have that question in mind of how we can "measure" the learners' progress (from A2 to B1 for example) without a syllabus.
Because, apparently, in Teaching Unplugged, there's no syllabus to follow or any kind of testing.
Could anyone discuss this point, please?
Genius. Should be compulsory viewing on training courses.
I wish my local had the same ratio.
I thought meta-language isn't needed for strong communicative and unplugged teaching. Here we are again talking on short sentences and phrasal expressions, plus a noisy classroom !
Teaching Unplugged has never rejected the use of meta-language and strongly encourages focus on form (as opposed to focus on forms).
On the point of the noisy class, I cannot see the problem.
TMTTT