I HEAR AND I FORGET , I SEE AND I REMEMBER , I DO AND I UNDERSTAND

1. I HEAR AND I FORGET , I SEE AND I REMEMBER , I DO AND I UNDERSTAND

2. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM The basic points

3. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM • To interact means to act upon another, talk to other people, work together with them, involve others to talking or working.

4. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM While interacting • students become more effective speakers; • they develop language skills; • they learn how to invite someone to speak and how to keep conversation going.

5. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM Interaction changes students’ attitude to language learning.

6. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM • If you want to serve learners’ interests, use the following tools (they can help you provide active learning which leads to production in the target language.)

7. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM • communicative and cooperative tasks • group and pair activities • movement + speech activities • role play and games

8. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM • Let your students: • be engaged in real-life interaction • solve problems, make discussions, and reach decisions

9. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM • Knowledge isn’t a gift presented by those who are educated to those who are ignorant.

10. INTERACTION IN THE CLASSROOM What does a teacher do in the classroom? • makes lessons more comprehensible for students’ input; • finds shortest ways for performing and completing tasks; • encourages learners to manipulate the language themselves; • has good skills of active listening and questioning; • gives feedback; • is a good actor who uses body language; • constantly develops whatever has been done, never copies, adds his own strokes

11. Quotations on Education and Interaction • Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ( Jeff Daly)

12. "Learning is a social process that occurs through interpersonal interaction within a cooperative context. Individuals, working together, construct shared understandings and knowledge. ( David Johnson )

13. Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there. (John Roueche )

14. If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. (Donald D. Quinn)

15. Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.