Question: What is the ESL in Armenian project?
Answer: It is a not for profit project bringing together volunteers and organisations so as to create high quality, pedagogically correct and linguistically accurate ESL videos in Armenian for the use of all Eastern speaking Armenians wanting to learn English.
Question: Is it just videos where you repeat words in Armenian and English and try to memorise things?
Answer: NO, NO and NO. The old soviet style of learning by repeating and memorising facts and figures is not used by real educators. To learn a language effectively and be literate, you MUST incorporate metacognition and metalanguage into the foundations.
Question: I am an ESL teacher in Armenia, will I lose students from this?
Answer: NO, you are likely to gain more students. A flipped classroom (see the diagram below) is about students having the time to understand the principles of language learning and then using their time with you instead of just being passive attendees. With these materials you can maximise your class time with practice material, productive activities and be creative with students getting out of their seats to engage. Additionally, by paying attention to what the students want more of that the videos provide, you can teach, revise in the classroom and scaffold accordingly.
Answer: It is a not for profit project bringing together volunteers and organisations so as to create high quality, pedagogically correct and linguistically accurate ESL videos in Armenian for the use of all Eastern speaking Armenians wanting to learn English.
Question: Is it just videos where you repeat words in Armenian and English and try to memorise things?
Answer: NO, NO and NO. The old soviet style of learning by repeating and memorising facts and figures is not used by real educators. To learn a language effectively and be literate, you MUST incorporate metacognition and metalanguage into the foundations.
Question: I am an ESL teacher in Armenia, will I lose students from this?
Answer: NO, you are likely to gain more students. A flipped classroom (see the diagram below) is about students having the time to understand the principles of language learning and then using their time with you instead of just being passive attendees. With these materials you can maximise your class time with practice material, productive activities and be creative with students getting out of their seats to engage. Additionally, by paying attention to what the students want more of that the videos provide, you can teach, revise in the classroom and scaffold accordingly.
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