ELICITATION
General Idea
Elicitation is a useful part of setting up an activity :
whether it is a role play, a game, a listening task or a
presentation.
Presentation is the part of the lesson that will be
dominated by the teacher as she introduces new material. The
teacher does most of the talking while the students listen. If
the students speak, it is usually to repeat what the teacher
says or to answer a set of questions.
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However, it is possible to involve the students
more in the activity by asking them for their :
• ideas,
• information and
• suggestion,
getting them to contribute what they already know; and by
encouraging them to guess vocabulary items or new words.
This is called Eliciting.