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As a Teacher, how do you help your students overcome their fears while speaking the second language?

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Question added by Salsabeel Al-Abed , Educational Resource Coordinator , Al Tayseer Educational Center
Date Posted: 2018/12/12
Aaisha Ahmed
by Aaisha Ahmed , TGT Social Science , Pearson School Kompally

First and formost thing is to make child confortable in his classroom , then once the child becomes confortable he himself will start speaking. While child speaks we need to encourage and at the same time need to rectify his errors and make him understand , why it is important to correct. 

SAROSH FATIMA
by SAROSH FATIMA , production pharmacist.quality assurance , Ammer Labs Pvt Ltd.

I myself will defintly try to understand their language and give them the responce in theyes manner that i am understanding their point,afterwards i will convince them that they shoukd also know my language,in this manner there will be the urge to learn the other language with the confidence.

Kiran Kumar Poloju
by Kiran Kumar Poloju , Lecturer , Middle East College

Few activities such as group discussion, elocution, etc. should be conducted as part of flipped teaching (student-led) using various methods like Jigsaw, think-share-pair, etc. where the students work together on a topic and discuss before they talk on a topic

DrRenji Issac
by DrRenji Issac , Author - Researcher , FREELANCE

Sat with them, practice. Practice, practice ....

help them with a smile .take individual efforts to overcome the language fear

otun bolanle
by otun bolanle , Teacher , Lagos State Ministry of Education , Nigeria

I will encourage them to always think and speak in the second language until they are fluent when speaking it

 

Irene Fenswick
by Irene Fenswick , Academic Writer, Tutor, Blogger , Freelance

As for me, it's just a matter of practice :) Students have to dig deep into the language. An interesting way is to unite students from different countries into one study group. They start to communicate in the target language anyway. It may be challenging, but it's effective. In other words, teachers can create situations where students should speak without preparation.

adil bashir
by adil bashir , consultant dermatologist - lecturer , khartoum colledge of medical sience

Always in my teaching especilly the tutorials I ask my students never bypass a word in a sentence without knowing it meaning and why been put in that  senence, and I inform them that teaching means catch knowledge to build his ablities.

Syed Muhammad Ali Shah
by Syed Muhammad Ali Shah , Librarian , Obaid Noor Institute of Medical Sciences

attractive  conversation with students about their challenges and discussing ways to manage them may help students feel more involved in your course and be more persistent to succeed. Help students become aware of their feelings of anxiety when they occu

Shewli Hira
by Shewli Hira , Language Instructor , Jazan University

All of us learn gradually. It is okay to make mistakes. Listen to your own voice again and again. 

Faiza Kamran
by Faiza Kamran , Senior Lecturer , Liaquat National Medical college and Hospital

 

participation of students  in communication with students about their challenges to manage them can support students feel more engage in course

Mostafa Mohamed  Al-Shafay
by Mostafa Mohamed Al-Shafay , Mathematics Teacher - Robotics Club Coordinator , Al-Tahtheeb International School

  • To enhance self confident, students have to practice with their classmates and participate in various presentations. If the student felt that fialure is a necessary part of the progress of learning he or she would be able to express his/her thoughts. One step teacher shpuld apply is involve the students in topics that related to their interests such as games or talking about something that heor she prefer.

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