Creating a Learner-Centred Approach

1. Students review what they did in the previous class.
   
2. Discussion on learning strategies.
   
3. Journal writing
   
4. Students do a short presentation on a topic of their choice.
   
5. SRA Reading Lab
   
6. How to choose a listening activity.
   
7. How to choose books from the library. One for English grammar, vocabulary, and one for pleasure.
   
8. Students use their Japanese cultural knowledge to explain about things in English.
   
9. Get students to teach some vocabulary or grammar.
   
10. Use the IRF for conversations.
    
11. Limited use of course books.
    

Above are some of the ideas that I do in my class to make the student more responsible for their own learning. I think that the saying is; you can give a fish to a person and give them food for a day, but if you teach them how to fish then they have food for a lifetime.

 

If I teach the students English then they might be alright in maybe one situation, but if I teach them how to teach themselves then the students will be learning for their whole lives and in many situations (or something like this).