What is interactive
language teaching?
It’s when we share
with the others while learning; that means that we have to promote
communication among our students by doing activities in short and long group
discussions where they can collaborate with thoughts, feelings, and ideas in
order to interact and get knowledge in an effective way.
In Interactive
Language teaching, get competence so that they can increase their skills while
doing discussions skits, joint problem solving tasks, or dialogues.
What impact may it
have in the English classroom?
It may have the impact that students will be,
lets say, independent. That means that they are going to look for different
ways of learning, guided for their teacher, of course. They are going to be
more practical because of the things they´re going to look for by using
discussions, dialogues, and some other in which they will share different
points of view about a certain topic. Therefore, Interactive Language Teaching enables
students to determine their own role and try things for themselves.
Why use groups in
the classroom?
Well, the initiation of
interaction in the students is the most important key to create an interactive
language classroom. So, we have to groups in order to provide our students with
the guidance need to interact each one another. Communication becomes very
important, that´s why forming groups help the teacher and the students to find
the best ways to develop those skills they must empower so that they can easily
get the knowledge they need to have opportunities and competence in the class.
What are the
advantages and disadvantages it has in ELT?
Advantages
Ø
Students become independent while performing different
activities.
Ø
Students get involved in communicative activities.
Ø
Students are provided with opportunities to find out
what they by hearing what they say.
Ø
The teacher is fully aware of the group dynamics of a classroom.
Disadvantages
Ø
We can only use interactive methods in our teaching Ø
Students get accustomed to working with group
activities.