Goal: The goal of this activity is to help you go over some of the prevailing teaching methodologies and literature referring to TEYL.
Read one of the attached files
1. Brown's Effective Learners and a Learner-Centered Classroom Brown_Effective Learners and a Learner-Centered Classroom.pdf
2. Rogers's CAL:Digests: Language Teaching Methodology Rodgers_CAL_ Digests_ Language Teaching Methodology.pdf
and post your answer to one of the questions below, using the "Add Comment" button below 
1. Brown believes that the learner-centered classroom helps students link new information to prior knowledge. (step 1) He gives us 6 strategies to aid in this process. Which strategies have you tried with your learners? Explain your successes and challenges in aiding students to make connections and gain new understandings.
2. Review the 5 principles of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) that Rodgers lists in his article. Think about your English course book and/or curriculum and explain how it uses the CLT approach, if it does. What techniques do you use to incorporate CLT in your class?
OPTIONAL MATERIAL
Watch the video on Total Physical Response (Action Stories)
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