Learning Circle Follow-up task 24/10/11
Group members: David, Ebi, Trang, Anna, Zoe, Cindy, Peach

10 suggestions for making teaching more learner-centred

1. Create comfortable atmosphere for learners to make them feel free and relax, such as warm-up activity to motivate them to learn. The activity depends on each individual.
2. Involving students for team work activity like our learning circle activity that leads everyone to participate using the discussion.
3. Teachers should ask students what they want to learn using new materials. They shouldn’t teach what learners already known.
4. Use authentic materials for learners to learn, such as songs and newspapers. Learners can face words or dialogues which people used in daily life. Teacher should use material related to learners’ culture then forward to target language.
5. Make sure students engage in the activity. Teacher monitors learners what they do and what is the outcome.
6. Students have self-direction and self-assessment for themselves.
7. Choose the appropriate level of activity for students. Providing a wide range of activities for different groups of people and different needs.
8. Ask the learners to decide the topic of teaching and content they would like to learn.
9. Encourage learners’ self-consciousness, self-responsibility, and autonomy which they can retrieve knowledge for longer period of time.
10. Don’t use activities unless they are suitable for teaching context.
11. Use peer-correction and delay correction. Don’t give correction immediately after the mistake. Get the whole mistake and correct it once at the end.