How to Teach the
four Skills
Unit 1:
The teaching-learning process and classroom management
Theme 1:The teaching-learning process and classroom management
MSc. Diana Estrada A.
SUBTHEMES
Subtheme 1: Different context for teaching a foreign language
Subtheme 2: Teaching and learners characteristics
Subtheme 3: Review of elements for successful language teaching: ERCA
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OBJECTIVE
Identify the different teaching- learning
processes and their contexts
DEVELOPMENT: TEXT ANALYSIS
Look at the following graphs and text and
write down what do you think about them in
your notebook
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DEVELOPMENT: TEXT ANALYSIS
What is Foreign Language Context?
“Teaching and learning another language in a
classroom context in an environment where
the target language is not a
common language of the community, for
example learning Indonesian in Australia, and
English in China”
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TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS
Great teachers’ characteristics according to students, are:
• The ability to develop relationships with their students
• Patient, caring, and kind personality
• Knowledge of learners……
TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS
Let’s watch some teachers characteristics
https://youtu.be/vrU6YJle6Q4
LEARNERS CHARACTERISTICS
• Easily distracted.
• Modern learners are more
social than any previous
generation
• Demands information
anytime and anywhere…
ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE TEACHING
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Content knowledge
Quality of instruction
Teaching climate
Classroom
management
• Teacher beliefs
• Professional behaviors
DEVELOPMENT: COLLABORATIVE WORK
1. Go to your assigned group
2. One person in the group, create a small
review about the session
3. Divide the main points of the session
and each student writes a brief summary.
4. Be prepared to share it orally
CLOSE UP: SUMMARIZE
One person in the group shares
his/her group ideas orally
KEY POINTS
1) Foreign language context is when people teach or learn another language in
a classroom context in an environment where the target language is not a
common language of the community
2) Educators must be aware of the students characteristics to help them in the
learning process
3) EFL teachers should know the elements of a successful language teaching
ERCA
https://www.slideshare.net/sjarmijos/metodologa-deaprendizaje-erca
REFERENCES
• Harmer, Jeremy.. (2007). How to
Teach English. : Pearson Longman
• Hossain, M., 2015. Teaching
Productive Skills to the Students: A
Secondary Level Scenario. [online]
Core.ac.uk. Available at:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7
4352632.pdf
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