Reflecting on Teaching Practices

Teachers and students profit from reflection. By exploring our beliefs of language learning we can gain insight on how they affect our choices in the classroom. In this interactive workshop we will share a range of methodologies and discuss the principles behind them. For example, some teachers prefer highly-structured activities because they are concerned about student-produced errors and the fossilization of these errors. On the other hand, many teachers embrace mistakes as the necessary steps of a learning process. Receptivity to different approaches will begin the moment we reflect on our own, and the principles behind them. We hope to share some activities that we have found successful in our classrooms.