Comments on: Three Things ESL Teachers Can Learn from Musicians http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2007/11/06/three-things-esl-teachers-can-learn-from-musicians/ The life and times of an English teacher in Mexico City Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:57:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Alex Case http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2007/11/06/three-things-esl-teachers-can-learn-from-musicians/#comment-613 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:18:22 +0000 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2007/11/06/three-things-esl-teachers-can-learn-from-musicians/#comment-613 Nice metaphor, and think it works. Maybe the difference is that a musician might be able to hear themselves when they have finally got it right, whereas a language student is less likely to know. Perhaps another is that a student of music might be overjoyed if they can copy the rendition of a master note by note by the end of a lesson, whereas a student of languages generally wants to express him or herself (=jamming?)by the end of lesson one. I'd say the secret to the Joy of Repetition in TEFL is controlled practice speaking game, something I use a lot of without as yet being able to fit it into any coherent theory of language learning. TEFLtastic blog- www.tefl.net/alexcase Nice metaphor, and think it works. Maybe the difference is that a musician might be able to hear themselves when they have finally got it right, whereas a language student is less likely to know. Perhaps another is that a student of music might be overjoyed if they can copy the rendition of a master note by note by the end of a lesson, whereas a student of languages generally wants to express him or herself (=jamming?)by the end of lesson one.

I’d say the secret to the Joy of Repetition in TEFL is controlled practice speaking game, something I use a lot of without as yet being able to fit it into any coherent theory of language learning.

TEFLtastic blog- www.tefl.net/alexcase

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