OK, so please now SHOW me a “required class of motivated low level students.” If you take out the word “motivated”, I’ll bite, but I’ve never yet seen a required English class in which even half the students qualified for the loose application of the word “motivated”… :shock:
That should be “required class or low level low motivated students” . . . otherwise we’re pretty close to the same page.
At the last ETA conference in Taipei, I saw a book on one of the sales tables on motivation studies related to the EFL classroom . . . it was interesting in that some of the material is similar to Robert Cialdini’s influence work but with a lot more charts, tables, and graphs. I didn’t have any cash with me at the time and so had decided I’d get it later only to forget the whole blasted thing until it so conveniently popped in my head just now.
Jeesh . . . I can’t write this week . . . “required class OF low level LOW MOTIVATED students” . . . now I must go and smash my face through a clear glass window as the song says.
There has been a similar conversation on tealit concerning the management of large high school classes. If the level is as low as Ironlady suggests, some of these ideas might be useful.
http://www.tealit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25250[/url]
Scott, don’t say the T word again. You might get banned