English Language Teaching Report

Running head: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 2
English Language Teaching Report
Introduction
English language teaching (ELT) process requires that the teacher employ various
techniques that will make the learners grasp what they are being taught as the tutors achieve their
objectives of the lesson. It is recommended that the teachers make the required lesson
preparations well enough using the right materials and equipment that would act as aids of
teaching. These preparations are meant to ensure that the lesson is carried out smoothly and in
the easiest way possible meaning that the learners understand well, what the teacher is
communicating (Walker, 2010). Besides having enough materials and equipment, the teachers
need to employ the right teaching procedures that include the use of proper language and
communication strategies. The teachers need to have good speaking and listening skills that they
need to transfer to the learners in the process of teaching (Hall, 2017). The teachers also need to
have good masterly of the English language that makes them pronounce words correctly during
the lesson to avoid confusing the learners. This paper intends to analyze an ELT lesson regarding
the preparations, materials used and methodologies applied in ensuring that the lesson was
successful.
Planning and preparation
During the ELT lesson preparation was done before the actual implementation of the
lesson. The process involved making sure that the right materials and equipment are collected
and made ready for the lesson. The first aspect to prepare for was identifying the class for the
lesson. This was important before selecting the lesson topic to be taught. Different classes or
levels have different topics. My class involved in the lesson was class four and the lesson

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involved teaching them on pronunciation of vowel sounds. This is a very important topic as the
learners need to know how vowel sounds are pronounced in different settings to avoid confusion
(Ur, 2012). A lesson plan was prepared that included the teaching aids and materials, the
targeted level of learners and the methodologies to be applied. Early preparation helped set
everything under control to ensure than no time is wasted during the lesson. The lesson plan also
indicated the total time for the lesson and the mode of assessment to evaluate what the students
had learned. The class was also arranged before the time for the lesson in that the writing board
was set, the equipment such as laptop, projector and general class arrangement. This ensured that
the teacher would not waste time in finding for any of the materials in case of need (Tomlinson,
2011). The teacher also set up the lesson teaching procedure that included such aspects as
whether the class would be group or individual targeted. This included the arrangement of the
class in relation to the lesson. The class needed to be set in such a way that all students would be
able to see and hear well as the teacher was teaching. The class has a public address system that
ensures that the teacher can be heard well by all students. The writing board had to be installed
high enough for all the students to see what the teacher was writing down (Chick, 2015). The
projector helped focus the content being taught to the white wall for the learners to follow as the
teacher was teaching.
Teacher talk
This involved planning about the ratio of teacher and student talk. There are different
ways the teacher can arrange for the talk methodology (Cook, 2010). Teacher-student talk ratio
can be made such that the teacher dominates the lesson and the learners just listen and make
notes as the teacher explains. It can also be the other way round where the students keep asking
questions and the teacher answers them. It can also be an interactive lesson whereby the ratio of