In designing listening lesson to develop listening skills, teachers must pay attention to any kinds of sources that can make students motivated and stay motivated. Here in “DESIGNING LESSONS FOR EFL LISTENING COMPREHENSION LESSONS CLASSROOM“, teachers are given several principles to improve the listening skills and make students more communicative.
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This model is designed for language teachers who train learners in READING COMPREHENSION. It has both theoretical and practical values.
Using radio like VOA in EFL Classroom are really useful. First, it brings authentic content for a classroom where not easy to meet and talk with native speakers. Second, valuable and useful in developing countries that has limited access to high-tech like videotape recorders, internet, and film projector. Third, valuable source of input and highly to language acquisition. If you interesting to read more about this topic, click on this link !
Genre Model is applied to the EFL classroom nowadays. This model is created in order to provide a teaching process which can encourage students’ skill in an integrative way. However, most of teachers find it is difficult to teach genre for encouraging student’s writing skill. There are so many gaps which teachers find in learning process, such as time, material and student’s motivation. To solve this problem, A PROCESS GENRE MODEL ARTICLE FOR TEACHING WRITING is implemented.
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Critical thinking and self-awareness are two components which cannot be separated in language teaching. Without these components, teachers are not only increasing student’s skill in English but also improving student’s knowledge and idea. These benefits are really priceless in real-life activity of the students itself. You can view more importance of these components by reading this article. the title is “Language Teaching through Critical Thinking and Self-Awareness”
Most of EFL Teachers in Elementary School think that teaching reading for elementary students is easy than teaching other skills. Because of this mind set, many teachers do not provide effective material and handle a good teaching process in the classroom. Whereas, reading is as important as other skills. Relating to this phenomenon, a good reading program is needed for an effective teaching and learning process. The ways to make this reading program can be seen from this article “LEARN READING PROGRAM FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL“. To view this article, click this link !
Let’s imagine this illustration
Miss Carla is our English Teacher. One day, she brought three boxes into the class. She said these boxes are magic boxes. After hearing that, we feel very curious to see what inside the boxes. Then, she asks us about what things are inside one box. It is the red one covered the front side. Miss Carla tells us the clue that it is a magic box. Every of us try to guess what inside the box. Unfortunately! No one knows. Thus, Miss Carla picks one item from the box. It is a witch hat. She asks us what it is. With a loud voice, we say that it is a witch hat. After that, she takes other stuffs that still relate with magic. After presenting several stuffs, she asks us about what story is related with these stuffs. We say it is a harry potter. Next, she directs us to read Harry Potter”
From the story above, we can imply that teaching reading is not interacting with text on the textbook only, but also can be integrated into an interactive activity like what the illustration’s above tell us. If you interested in creating these story boxes for teaching English, you can view this link
For many years, most of EFL classroom do not provide an effective reading activity for their students. The activities which are provided in the classroom are only related to lower level reading comprehension followed by boring reading comprehension exercises involve multiple choice items, true-false statements, and vocabulary work of the type that requires students to supply a synonym or antonym for the words given. This condition proves ineffective teaching reading skill. Basically, the soul reading readings is encouraging student’s critical reading skill because this critical reading is really valuable for improving students’ analysis and mind map. The way to design a class with an atmosphere of critical reading can be viewed on this article. The title is “Encouraging Critical Reading in the EFL Classroom”
Encouraging student’s 
competence in learning English is a goal of every English language teacher. Unfortunately, many English classes only concern in achieving the accuracy of grammatical competence. Most of EFL learners and teachers viewed grammatical competence is important than pragmatic competence. Whereas, experts views that pragmatic competence is also important for teacher and learners of English. Why do experts assume this? The answer of this assumption is proven through this article “DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN THE EFL CLASSROOM”. Here is the link
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