Date
Duration
30 minutes
About the talk
Not long ago, drills went from heaven (in the audio-lingual methods) to hell (according to the communicative approach). However, language learning theories, and reality itself, have come to their rescue and drills are not so tacky any longer. We’ll see examples and experiment with ways to make more mechanical practices relevant, communicative and even personal. Drills can be fashionable again.
I really liked the webinar as I was always skeptical about putting drills into trash. Students learning English as a foreign language, especially beginners, need drills to automatize certain structures and build confidence about expressing most common functions or structures, such as, greeting, introducing to one another, thanking, leave taking, asking for some basic questions, say, yes/no questions, etc. I'm really glad to see that drills can be "turned into "meaningful drills" or, why not, into "communicative drills".