ESA Model of Language Teaching
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Firstly, I want to give you a brief introduction about ESA model of language teaching.
ESA model of language teaching which was put forward by Harmer refers to the three elements of engage, study and activate.
waitIn the process of Engage, the teacher tried to arou students’ interest and engage their emotions. This can be prented through many different ways, such as showing a picture, a dramatic story or having a conversation. The only aim is to arou students’ interest, curiosity and attention. The next pha is Study. A ries of activities in this process should focus on language and how it is constructed. The focus of study should include pronunciation of one particular sound, techniques an author us to create special emotion, an examination of a verb ten, spoken style and so on. Lastly, Activate pha encourages students to u language as communicatively as they can. Students do not focus on language construction口语训练 or practice particular language patterns, but u their full language knowledge in the lected situation or task.
Secondly, Ishutoff will make a comment about ESA model. As we all know, everything has two sides. According to my understanding about it, I consider its advantages outweigh disadvantages. So I will give my opinions from three aspects in terms of advantages.
In the first place, the model is more student-centered. Engage pha allows student to discuss or have a brainstorm through some certain situation given by teacher. Study pha makes students do much practice to acquire the knowledge that is taught in the class. Activate pha encourages students to u language. The one point I want to mention is that students need not focus on grammar and teacher should point out students’ error after their talk.
In addition, interest and curiosity guides students to master knowledge. As a saying goes the interest is the best teacher, the Engage pha of the model is to discover students’ interest and arou their curiosity. Thus, students have a stronger desire to learn. They also have a clear aim to study. And they also know what they want to gain in the process of study. That is very important.
4级准考证Last, the model is aimed to arou the enthusiasm of study. It can be embodied in the Activate pha. When it comes to language learning, speaking is an esntial part of learning. So teacher can organize role-play activities to apply language knowledge. Students should make conversations with using language knowledge. At the same time, role-play activity is filled with enjoyment. So students can not only master language knowledge, but also enjoy the class.
Thirdly, I will take a ca of ESA model for example to further illustrate it.
In a class, a teacher will give a lesson about festivals. If we plan this class according to the ESA model, we can design the class like the following pattern.
Engage: Students and teacher discuss festivals. What is your favourite festival? How can you speak them in English? What do you usually do in festivals.
Study: A teacher will teach students how to pronounce festivals in English, introduce some language pattern and show some phras about festivals. Then, students should some 救护车英语practice to master today’s language knowledge.
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Activate: Activate: Some time later, students role-play another situation to talk about festivals, bringing in the knowledge they gained in the study pha.
If the class goes on like this, I believe students can enjoy it and learn a lot of knowledge. It is themlves who study knowledge.
Fourthly, Hammer mentioned that the three elements need to be prented does not mean they always have to take place in the same quence. The teachers’ responsibility is to vary content of lessons and quences so as to meet the need of different class.
Usually, we can teach language in ESA model like this: Engage, Study, Activate. But we can change the quence according to the lesson that a teacher will give. For example, we can change the quence like this “Engage, Activate, Study, Activate ”
I still take a lesson about festivals for example.
摩洛幼儿英语Engage: Students and teacher discuss festivals. What is your favourite festival? How can you speak them in English? What do you usually do in festivals.
Activate: The teacher describes a festival using today’s language knowledge. Then, the teacher gives a certain situation which students are going to role-play to introduce a festival. Students plan questions they are going to ask and the kind of answers they might want to give (not focusing on language construction and so on, but treating it as a real-life task. They then role-play the conversation. While they are doing this, the teacher should make a note of language mistakes they make and difficulties they have instead of interrupting them.)
Study: When the role-plays are over, the teacher works with students on the grammar and vocabulary which caud the trouble during the role-play. A teacher will teach students how to pronounce festivals in English, introduce some language pattern and show some phras about festivals. Then, they can do some practice to have a good master of it.
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Activate: Some time later, students role-play another situation to talk about festivals, bringing in the knowledge they gained in the study pha.
法文名The above two cas reprent how to plan a class in the ESA model of language teachi
ng. Through them, I just want to clarify everything is not dead and we should change them in the basis of original principles. Certainly, the kind of change should bring benefit to our teaching.
In conclusion, ESA model of language teaching bring us a lot of benefit. Certainly, there are others models of language teaching. Different teachers have different teaching styles. Every teacher should pursue one of teaching models which suits him well. Then, according to a certain class, we can apply them .But sometimes we can make some change to apply it better.
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Subject Teaching and Curriculum Design
