Juliana Vailões Zanardi –
English tutor
Students:
Flávio and Isabela Souza
Age: 11 and 13 years old
Interests: Internet (videos, social medias)
Objective of the private
class: How to make learning English more interesting
Methodology: Multiliteracy
and Communicative approach
The main goal of the class
was to make them see how English can be learned and used in a fun, lifelike
situation and how it can be useful, once these students really don’t want to
attend regular classes.
The activity was aimed at two
students, who are siblings, and don’t like to study English. The aim was to
develop an experiment, which I had already done in a school with kids, to see
how magnetism works. After the experiment, I used Kahoot to check their
understanding of the procedures and results of their previous work.
To do so, I developed a
questionnaire in Kahoot about the steps and materials used to make Magnetic
fluid and I sent them the link and game-pin to access it. Then, they used their
cell phones to answer the questions in class. I set the timer for 30 seconds to
use the competition aspect as an engagement motivation.
As a result, the students
enjoyed the class, because they could use their cell phones. Also, I could see
it encouraged them to use some of the words they learned when I asked for oral
feedback of what they had learned, although they did it mostly in Portuguese
due to lack of fluency to do so in English only.
Kahoot activity:
Reasons to use such methodologies: The multiliteracy methodology (in this case, the
experiment and the use of an online quiz and the cell phone) is used to raise
interest and help the students to get motivated. Also, the communicative approach will provide the students with the opportunity to learn from a
realistic perspective, thus getting more interested and engaged.
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