Helping students to become an active part of foreign language classes

‘UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA GABRIEL RENÉ MORENO’
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
CARRERA DE LENGUAS MODERNAS Y FILOLOGIA HISPANICA

STUDENT: VIGABRIEL PARDO LEYDI LAURA

INVESTIGACIÓN LINGÜISTICA

DATE: NOVEMBER, 2006

SANTA CRUZ-BOLIVIA

If teachers encourage their students to become more active during the development of the classes, and at the same time help them toovercome their weaknesses, we are going to have successful language classes.

CONTENTS

I. Introduction …………………………………………………………..……………….4
❖ Justification ……………………………………………………………………..4
❖ Theses statement ………………………………………………………………..4
❖ Aims …………………………………………………………………………….4
❖ Announcement ………………………………………………………………….4

II. The importance of students’participation in class ..............................................5
❖ A good development of the class ……………………………………………….5
❖ A good learning of the students ………………………………………………...5

III. Reasons why students do not participate in class …………………..……....................6
❖ Teachers’ behavior ….………….…………………………..………………...6
❖ Lack of motivation……………………………………………...…..................7
❖ Knowledge insecurity ………………………………….…..………………...8
❖ Shyness …………………………………………………...…....................9
❖ Students’ attitude …………………………………………..….……………10
❖ Students’ personal Problems …………………………………...…….................11

IV. Problems of not participation ……………………………..….….……................12
❖ Frustrated teachers………………………………….…….……….................12
❖ Students at disadvantage ………………….……………...……………….12

V. Helping students to participate in classes …………………………………………..13
❖ Confidence between teacher and students in class ……………...…………….13
❖ Show your student that you are a friend as well as a teacher …………………13
❖ Encourage students to talk ………………………………..…………………..14

VI. Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………….15
VII. Annexes……………………………………………………………………………….16
VIII. Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………….28
“HELPING STUDENTS TO BECOME AN ACTIVE PART OF
FOREING LANGUAGE CLASSES”

I. Introduction
Students play a very important part in the classroom; they are the main protagonists of the teaching/learning process besides the teachers. And for this reason, the students’ non participation in class is turning out into a bigproblem and every time it is growing more and more, carrying with itself many other problems and consequences. For example, sometimes classes are not dynamic and students become bored; it seems that students do not enjoy the activities. Therefore, they do not learn what they are supposed to learn in the classes, and with silence and not participation, students are losing the great opportunity toput in practice their previous knowledge of the foreign language. So, the class activities cannot be concluded as the teacher expected, and that fact stops the learning of the lessons and interrupts the normal class development making teachers feel frustrated for not being able to reach their objectives.
As we can see, the mayor problem in language classes seems to be participation. If thestudents do not participate and if they always hide themselves from the teacher, classes become boring and the teacher’s job turns harder. Then without the students’ participation in language classes the teaching fails and the students lose their opportunity to learn. For these reasons, if teachers encourage their students to become more active during the development of the classes, and at the sametime help them to overcome their weaknesses, we are going to have successful language classes. Our aims in this paper are to present teachers with some ideas and techniques to encourage and help the students to overcome their weaknesses, for example, shyness and insecurity. Therefore, the students will be able to...