BING-Starting And Finishing A Lesson
When language teachers start and end a lesson, a set of procedures have been prepared in order to focus the students’ attention on the learning aims of the lesson. The beginning and end of a lesson provide many opportunities for authentic language use. With the appropriate techniques and language items, starting and finishing a lesson in English create an effective classroom environment to take place. Research on teaching suggests that the opening, or “entry”, of a lesson generally occupies the first five minutes and can have an important influence on how much students learn from the lesson (Richard & Lockhart, 2004, p.114). In the other hand, it is also believed that teacher’s strategies in ending a lesson will influence on how the students internalize the concepts of any topic that they learn in a lesson. Therefore, through the discussions as well as tasks in this activity participants will discuss some strategies on managing the starting and finishing a lesson.
Participants are able to design effective opening and closing of the lessons to expose students to use of authentic, such as:
- identify classroom situation which provide opportunity for practicing English;
- plan the start and end stages of lesson effectively;
- select and use language appropriate at start and end stages of lesson;
- reflect on learning and identify areas for further study.
