Week 14: Active learning through interactive classroom

(10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions and Think-pair-share)

 Active learning through interactive classroom

The readings for this week share interesting information about interactive English classrooms. This is a learning strategy in which students develop many skills that focus on the student’s needs such as, motivation, communicative skills, team work, initiative, self-esteem, cooperation and solidarity, and also respect towards diversity.

The articles "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions" and "Think-pair-share" explain how to increase students’ interactions into the classroom and motivate them to be creative, to participate and to encourage critical thinking. These competencies will permit learner to be more confident about what they have learned and to encourage critical thinking. These competencies will permit learner to be more confident about what they have learned and show their understanding without fear of being wrong. Also, it fosters students to become autonomous in their own learning process. Moreover, in the second article "Think-pair-share" I learned how to apply smart strategies to promote those competencies like a "circle chat" this activity generates a fun and an interactive classroom environment. I think these are useful ideas to get students involved in the lesson and engage their interest and enable student free meaningful learning. To sum up, through interactions, students can increase their language repertoire as they listen to or read authentic linguistic material.

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