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What seems to be more difficult: teaching teens or teaching large classes? Reason your answer and think outside the box.

There are some people that think that teach to the teenagers is the most difficult thing in this world because young people are very infuriating and they prefer to avoid teaching teens, but in my opinion is better to teach adolescents than to teach large classes, because in the large classes there are different students  and they have different needs; moreover, when we are teaching a large class is more difficult to establish the rapport and also to maintain the discipline inside the classroom; however, when we are teaching teenagers those things are difficult to achieve at the verb beginning but according to the time is passing you can achieve to establish not only a good relationship with them but also to maintain the discipline inside the classroom. When you do that you can see that is easier to teach teens.

How would you deal with error correction in your classroom?

When you have a group of students is common that you used different techniques during a class or after the class to indicate their errors. During an activity (role play, oral tests, quizzes, written tests, etc.) you could listen the variety of common errors that the students commit while they are speaking or when they writing something. But, not only you can correct them but also they correct themselves. It is a self- correction and it happen when you make a mistake and immediately you correct yourself. Likewise, there are others ways to correct errors: self-correction (I have already mentioned it), student-student, teacher-student, small group, all class, course book. In my classes, I use teacher-student correction because in that way I help them to learn about the correct pronunciation or writing of the words. To learn English is not easy, maybe it is the reason because some of my students do not pay attention but I try to encourage them to learn English in an easy way. When they make a mistake I do not tell them at the moment I wait after their participation and then I correct them with all the class. In that way they do not feel embarrass at the moment. When my students make a mistake I try to correct them in a respect way but after their opinion because if I correct the students while they are speaking, they could lose their ideas and it is not the purpose.

How can we raise student awareness about how students can best learn and help them find more ways of learning English more effectively and productively? Exemplify this through the lens of a student and prospective ELT practitioner.

In my point of view there are many ways to be an effective teacher. I know that we as teachers have many troubles at the moment in which are in front of the students because to learn a new language is not easy for them. It is because English is not their native language. For that reason, motivate our students is a key for open a new world, experiences and knowledge and keep the flow of the classes is one of the most important elements if we want to be a successful teachers. In my experiences as practitioner I apply some activities to innovate the way to learn for example: one of the useful activity in which the students have the opportunity to speak and listen is the audio program. The purpose of that activity in the classroom is to show students how to improve their four skills to develop those should become a vehicle for communicating thought and feelings.  The audio for me is focus in the listening and the speaking skill and contain pronunciation exercises; as a result, the students make conversation in the classes and fill the blank in the exercises that I provide them or the exercises that the English book has. With that activity I encourage my students to learn through podcast, songs or TV programs, not only in the classroom, but also outside of the classroom.