How to teach level one students in the target language (TL)?
Hi YANA, I want to teach in the target language (TL) as much as possible, but with level one students it is difficult. I will start doing it and we’ll see how it goes. Do you have any ideas for me? Dear Reader, Obvious things from day one for the teacher: • Greet in TL – as they come into the classroom and when you see them in the hall • Act out what you are saying • Repeat things several times, trying at first to use the same words, later using a variety of words to get the idea across. • Make use of cognates! They’re a give for everybody. • Use a lot of pictures – start with magazine ads or clip art. (I had a huge box of pictures that I put on construction paper and used for all kinds of stimuli at all levels. Enlist the help of your students and you’ll cover a lot more ground more quickly. Some pictures need to be simple if they are going to be used for vocabulary cues; others need to be complex so they can be used for story telling.) • Don’t give in! Maybe not so obvious things for
