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Quote emile For more mature students, give them some input into the class - ask them what activities they enjoy or what they want more or less of. |
I used to do this but my experience was that it would backfire. I would ask the students what they wanted to do and they'd tell me and I'd do it only to have them complaining a month later that they didn't like what we were doing. I think it's because the students don't
really know what they want or understand what they need.
If you do ask your students what they want more or less of, my advice is to set a portion of the class aside for doing that but spend the rest of the class doing what they need.
We also did a show on motivating students at ESL Teacher Talk.
http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2006/1...ly-challenged/
It might be helpful.
Eric