what can we do when a student fails in talking

When we are giving some English lessons, we want to talk with the students in class as more as we can as a measure of practicing oral English. But, unfortunately, the students are shy and timid and forgetful, as a result, the students fail in talking from time to time. That’s really a big problem.

I always thinking of the reason, why the students can’t open their mouth and say just a bit simple English that learned ago. As time goes by, I get a little reason and know what to do to deal with it a little.

First, the language environment is very important. If the people surrounding are talking in English, how can you say Chinese? So, as a starting point, I put the English contents on the wall, on the blackboard, and even outside the classroom. When they walk past, they can see it, sometimes, they will read it, sometimes, they will talk about it, that’s the first way to render the English environment.

Second, we can rearrange the classroom schema, for example, group the students into six or change the desks into round shape from the square. And sometimes, we can try to let the students answer questions without stand up. It can somewhat relieve the tension of students.

Third, the usage of encouragement is very important for especially our primary school students. Whatever they say or whether it is right is not the most important, but however they can say or not is more important. Everyone likes to be praised, praise means confirmation. Although the answer is not right this time, he will not be afraid next time.

Finally, give students more space to answer. The wider range of answers will arouse more students to answer. The more answer you plan, the more students will take part into your talking.

So, when students fail in talking, don’t be nervous yourself, don’t blame the students. Try to think more, and plan more, you will get more.