Active Learning & Student Engagement Strategies in ELT
Keywords:
English Language Teaching (ELT), Student Engagement, English as Foreign Language (EFL), Facilitation, Bloom’s Cognitive Levels, Freytag’s Pyramid, Socratic MethodAbstract
Student disengagement is a challenge many educators struggle with across the classrooms. Most English Language
Teachers (ELT) are wary of lack of student attention, as well as poor reading comprehension skills. Students more
often than not remain distracted when prose is handled in the class through conventional pedagogical methods.
My article is on Student Engagement strategies in teaching English prose. Through my article, I aspire to bring
some strategies to EL Teachers that can enhance comprehension skills among students. I have discussed five strategies that can be employed in classrooms in the article. These strategies are most appropriate for the students of
grades 6-12 with English as Foreign Language (EFL).
The article explains how to use each of the strategies as well as outlines the thinking skills involved in solving
each of the engagement sheets.
I have also enclosed a sample sheet for each of the five strategies that I have suggested.
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