Describe how you would create an oral language-rich classroom.
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Oral
language-rich classroom
Oral language rich classroom should have the
entire required infrastructure such as digital board, fine quality speakers,
microphone, and oral-intensive language exercises. Fluency in English or any
other language is a matter of natural exposure to the language, and the outcome
of regular, sincere practice. The easiest way to learn English or any other
language is to spend maximum of your time in an environment where quality
English is spoken. If you don't have an easy access to such an environment, you
need to create it. Fluency of correct English does not happen in a day or
month. You need a long training. Language is best learnt from the environment.
An environment where a language is spoken fluently, accurately, and naturally,
in that environment language learning happens easily, and efficiently. Many
activities can be used in a classroom to facilitate language learning:
1. Students
should be taught the target language in a language lab equipped with the latest
learning hardware and software.
2. Plenty of
reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities should be done with the
students.
3. A
language lab resource centre and library should be maintained for developing
new content and to keep students actively engaged in the language learning
activities.
4. Students’
seminars, declamations, extempore, quizzes, plays should be conducted quite
frequently. Children learn the best by doing. Their performances should be
recorded and shown in the class.
5. Online
help should be provided to them through school’s web-portal.
6. Since
listening to the target language has a conducive influence on speaking, the
teacher should make his students listen to the soundtracks of text-books and
other audio-books. Listening to the tracks will enhance their listening
comprehension and help them pick up sentence structures, correct grammar
patterns, intonation, and pronunciation of words and sentences.
7. There
should be a digital dictionary in the class to teach students the art of looking
up it for new words. Initially the teacher should look up the new words with
the students; later on the students can look up the dictionary themselves. They
should also listen to the pronunciation of each and every new word.
8. The
teacher should teach grammar, writing skills, and literature using audio and
video lessons. This will also correlate the listening skills with the other
skills.
9. The teacher should give speaking assignments to students such as one minute speech or dialogue speaking; he should record their speeches or dialogues and make them listen to their speeches in the class.