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https://www.englishlab.net/teflblog Teaching English as a Foreign Language Online Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:08:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.18 https://www.englishlab.net/teflblog/2007/10/large-class-sizes-low-tech-classrooms/ https://www.englishlab.net/teflblog/2007/10/large-class-sizes-low-tech-classrooms/#respond Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:06:13 +0000 http://www.englishlab.net/teflblog/?p=228 What’s the magic formula I wonder? You are given  a mixed-ability class of ca 20 students, whose average level is pre-intermediate, and an upper-intermediate level multi-page coursebook to cover in ca. 50 90-minute lectures. How on earth is it possible to cover everything and to ensure that all the students have achieved the desired level of proficiency by the end of the course? How to focus on fluency if there is literally no time? How to work miracles if the only equipment available is a chalkboard and there is no CD-player? I should be grateful that it is possible to do some photocopying, though; nevertheless, the prospects are really bleak. To make matters worse, about half the students are technophobes or have no access to computers/the Internet or do not have good dictionaries.  Whatever they say, teachers can do very little without proper teaching aids in large mixed-ability classes, ie GIGO – it is unwise to expect great results if the initial input you can provide is meagre.

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