APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Classroom arrangement – various work-forms in classes
Individualized learning
Individualized learning is a vital step in the development of learner autonomy. Students do exercises on their own in class teachers are able to spend time working with individual students. If we wish students to work on their own in class, we can allow them to read privately and then answer questions individually, students can write compositions, essays on their own as well etc.
Advantages of individualized learning:
- it allows teachers to respond to individual student differences in terms of pace of learning, learning styles, and preferences,
- this work-form is less stressful for students then performing in a whole class setting,
- it will develop learner’s autonomy and will promote skills of self-reliance. Disadvantages of the work-form:
- this work-form does not encourage cooperation between students and it does not develop a sense of belonging,
- it demands more time from the tutor than interacting with the whole class.
