INTERACTION

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.