1.
Teach students to accept and learn from their mistakes.
2. Show your students that you accept and care about them by
knowing and using their names and viewing them as individuals. Pay attention
and listen to each one of them.
3. Find out about your students’ needs, goals, interests and
experiences and try to make the subject matter as relevant as possible to
their lives.
4. Provide students with different ways to succeed in the language
class starting with easier tasks and proceeding to more difficult ones.
5. Adjust the difficulty level of tasks to the students’ abilities
and mix demanding tasks with more manageable ones.
6. Prepare the students and assist them to know exactly what
success in the tasks involves. Introduce them to new learning strategies
to facilitate the intake of new materials.
7. Use written procedures to help students remember the steps
to perform tasks.
8. Make task content attractive by adapting it to the students’
natural interests or by including novel, intriguing, exotic, or fantasy
elements.
9. Allow learners real choices about as many aspects of the
learning process as possible, such as the topics of their own presentations.
10. Try to capture the interest of your own students with an interesting
introduction.
11. Teach by asking lots of questions and by encouraging students to ask
questions.
12. Use appropriate humor in your teaching and in tests to relieve anxiety.
13. Praise students in front of the class, discipline them in private.
14. Move around the room as you teach; walk energetically and purposefully
among learners.
15. Use demonstrative movements of your head, arms and maintain eye contact
and occasionally nod your head to show understanding while interacting with
students.
16. Put some excitement into your speech; vary your pitch, volume and rate.
17. Make sure that your tests are current, valid, reliable and transparent.
18. Provide regular feedback about the progress that your students are making
and about the areas, which they should particularly concentrate on. Keep
parents informed.
19. Avoid face-threatening acts such as humiliating criticism, comparing
students’ abilities, or putting the students in the spotlight unexpectedly.
20. Be enthusiastic about yourself, your students, and your profession.