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ESL Humour

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ESL Humour

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  1. ESL Humour "When humour is planned as part of the teaching strategy, a caring environment is established, there is an attitude of flexibility, and communication between student and teacher is that of freedom and openness. The tone is set allowing for human error with freedom to explore alternatives in the learning situation. This reduces the authoritarian position of the teacher, allowing the teacher to be a facilitator of the learning process. Fear and anxiety, only natural in a new and unknown situation, becomes less of a threat, as a partnership between student and instructor develops.“ (Watson, M.J, Emerson, S., " Facilitate Learning with Humour", Journal of Nursing Education 27 (1988): 89.) Getting ESL Students to Laugh

  2. Why is Laughter important? • Creates a welcoming environment • Decrease learner anxiety • Develop memorable context • Culturally relevant language • Fosters a positive student-teacher and student-student rapport – brings people together • Helps us forget about problems and fears

  3. Guidelines for Using Humour • Don’t try to hard – encourage humour but let it arise naturally; • Use universal humour, not humour that is culturally specific or that targets a particular group, nationality, etc.; • Make humour an integral part of the class, not a special unit or activity; • Use cartoons and videos, but they should relate to what is being taught in the class and interesting and relevant to the students’ language proficiency.

  4. Ideas for Spontaneous Laughter • Exaggerate • 13 vs 30. you can add extra emphasis to the eeeeeeeeeeeee on 13 • ‘BIG, LOUD’ – speak loudly or ‘soft, quiet’ – whisper • Play games that assign points – give 1 billion points for perfect responses • Laugh suddenly, then STOP laughing suddenly. • Ask Crazy Questions – mixed in with serious questions • ‘how many fathers do you have?’ ‘did you visit China last night?’ • Make Intentional Mistakes • Writing on the blackboard, keeps them alert • Giving fake information to see if they’re paying attention

  5. Ideas for Spontaneous Laughter • Oxymorons

  6. Resources for Humour • Common idioms or expressions that are highly visual • Tell a joke : http://www.teacherjoe.us/Jokes.html • Comics – Archie, Bizarro • Videos – Mr. Bean, TV Commercials, BBC ‘The teacher’ • Music – Weird Al

  7. Websites for ESL Humour • http://english-humor.blogspot.com/ • http://www.michellehenry.fr/humour.htm • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/

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