UNIT 27

USING LANGAUGE APPROPRIATELY FOR A RANGE OF CLASSROOM FUNCTIONS

In this unit I could identify different classroom functions of teacher language and their exponents.

One of the functions I could clearly remember is instructing. As the word already describes, the teacher give students’ instructions. Those could be given before, during and after developing an activity. Moreover, another classroom function I got quickly was prompting. This function helps learners think, remember, figure out, work out or produce a word, a phrase or an idea. At the moment to prompt, we as teachers usually provide our students short unfinished phrases I order to make our students finish it for us. I remember that I used to use this function in almost all my classes since nobody wanted to take risks by giving a wrong answer, so I helped them by writing on the board non-ended statements. For instance, I like..... or I dislike…….. because…….. Then, they felt more confident to complete that idea by using their own vocabulary. In spite of those functions there are other like modelling, encouraging, nominating and so on.

All these functions are very well known in a classroom so personally I will continue using mainly prompting because I proved that it really works for learners who want to be more active and more participative in the class. 

RESOURCE

YouTube,. (2016). Demo Class ESL Teacher China. Retrieved 27 January 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUD3DSD8T6U