The challenge I face while doing my teaching practice!

Since the first moment I started my first class, my students noticed a big change. They had been taught in the traditional way of teaching; they were accustomed to be very busy with written tasks during all the classes; they were primarily taught grammatical structures, nothing about developing their four macro skills. So when I asked my students to participate in some activities, they were very confused about what I was doing, and they did not wanted to participate; they were very afraid of making mistakes.

Besides that, they understood nothing about English, so I had to go down to their English level and tried to enrich their vocabulary by exposing them to every day class language which I tried to use in all my classes. Thanks God, at the end of my teaching practice, all my students perfectly mastered all that vocabulary.

                                                        

So, to make my students participate in class and work with listening, reading, and speaking activities was a complete challenge for me. At the beginning, I realized that they thought they were just wasting their time; that’s why, what I did was to make them aware of the purpose of the activities I was developing. After that, the 50% of the students started to participate in class. However, half of the class still remained kind of passive.