I am an English teacher.Can anyone guide me of how to make my students speak more English?

Question

Some practical tips and suggestions to encuorage my students speaking English more and better

Answer 1

Okay! Here are some suggestions for you.





- make each of them say WHAT interests them (e.g. video game or classical music or sleeping a lot) and then structure short interesting conversations in English about WHAT they like



- get a movie in English but wuth their language subtitles; first show the movie with the titles then mask out the translation



- help them memorize 10-20 bridge phrases ... many new speakers really like bridge phrases ..... I know I did, things like "On the other hand" "Well sometimes" "but perhaps"



- help them learn stalling in English, phrases like "well let me see" and "that is hard to say" It gives them time to think of their other responses, I know that this worked for me the first time I moved abroad to work



- flashcards



- play a game like Monopoly or Charades or Battleship but in English only - make it fun



- comic books, everybody loves a good comin book, two of the languages I learned I learned FROM goofing off with foreigh language comic books



- buy a couple of books they can check out that are split language, you know, English on one side and Korean (or whatever it is) on the other - these are not just cheat books, they really help students to look back and forth and ENJOY the stories at their OWN pace



- bring lots of kitsch to the classroom: sci Fi movie posters, Coffee mugs with expressions, make it a living language!



- idioms, idioms, idioms, proverbs, proverbs ....... Don't cry over spilled milk, the genie is out of the bottle, the last chance saloon, one in the hand is better than etc. I used idioms practically 95% to bridge a Cantonese sutdent into living English - students usually love these, if they are curious



- do Karaoke in English!!



- practice the most needed stuff "Can I park here?" "The tampon dispenser is empty." These things are often not covered in typical classes



- practice the phone, practice the phone ...! Most students feel a tremendous leap of confidence when after several drama practices they can handle even minimally the phone, you know, hello, please hold, can the dentist see me at 3?



- encourage them!



- show fun funny and hip music videos



- show really old television sohws - note that the English is often prononuced much better



- in fact news broadcasters and old tv tend to enunciate better!



- play the BBC World News and then ask questions



- watch movies in English



- take them on a filed trip to normal stuff, you know, how to ask for a diff size jeans in the store



- remind them that the more they practice the better it will get



- encourage them to visualize them seapking in English in situations that really matter to them (travel, work, romance, better wages, working locally, working overseas, whatever it is).



How many do you need? LOL



Good luck!

Answer 2

This needs to start from the first day of class. I'm assumign that you are talking about "during" the class. Made an agreement together that the minute they walk through the door, no more foreign languages will be spoken. You can agree to fine those who do this a dollar each time (then use the money to buy a pizza at the end of the course with the money).



Out of class, you can set them up with conversation partners, or can help them join in community activities where they'll have to speak English such as volunteer opportunities and church, etc.

Answer 3

I like using debates in English, arguing about a popular topic will often encourage students to use their English more comfortably. You have to start with an easier method, asking students about likes or dislikes, and then work up to having formal debates.



I also like asking students to prepare a short speech about a favourite topic, then getting another student (or students) to ask them questions (in English of course!).



Remember, all your activities should be fun! The more comfortable a student is, the more likely they will want to try to speak English.

Answer 4

is english your second language aswell because you can not speak properly, when you speak to your students they won't understand anyway what you said.

But anyway you better have video for them let't they watch sometime. let they do some writting and read english cartoons and some time will be good if you read and practice them to listen and at the end ask them what the story is told about, the good way let they answer you in english. it does not matter if they say wrong and you have to tell them how to say

Answer 5

1. Teach them a simple English song,

2. Play English words games.

3. Have them watch a funny English cartoon.

4. give award if they can use more new English words for chatting.

Answer 6

You may be a very well educated English teacher who just didn't, for whatever reason, use very good grammar or punctuation in your question. I don't know, but you may need to improve your own English first. You can strive to teach by example.

Answer 7

When I was learning a second language (Spanish in my case), the teacher did not allow any other language to be spoken in the classroom after the first year.

We also did a lot of role-playing.

Answer 8

Try keeping debates based on any topic the students find interesting or you can have an interactive session with the students letting them narrate incidents and stuff like that.........

Answer 9

Can I assume English is a second language for you as well?

Answer 10

you can bring in a talk along movie where they repeat a word on the video.