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Oh no! You just got your course evaluations back from last semester and things are not looking good. You had thought you’d done a decent job, but your students thought otherwise. You had noticed that your attendance numbers declined as the semester progressed, but you chalked that up to other factors, like students entering the workforce, childcare and/or transportation issues. You never considered that the problem may be with how you were teaching the class. But now you see that one of the students’ main complaints was that, while you taught the grammar well, they felt that they never had enough opportunities to practice speaking in class. They never got to use the language that you were actually trying to teach them!

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How often do your students talk in the target language each class period? Click on the percentage group that you think applies YOUR class(es): 0%-25% 25%-50% 50%-75% 75%-100%

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Lesson Title: Module 5: Maximizing Student Talk Time

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Audio: Did you know that language teaching experts suggest that student talk time should ideally be around 70% to 80% of the class time. Wow! This is based on several key reasons: 1. Language Practice for skill development and real-life application, 2. Active learning engages students and helps them learn form each other, 3. Immediate feedback helps to refine learners’ language use, 4. Confidence building from regular practice is crucial for reducing anxiety and provides ample opportunities for positive reinforcement. And lastly, 5. Higher STT is a student-centered approach which gives your learners more control over their learning while at the same time you tailor activities to students’ interests making learning more relevant and motivating.

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Audio: Now that you know WHY maximizing STT is so important, it’s time to learn how to actually put this into practice in your classroom!

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Audio: Let’s go over our course objectives. In this module, first you will identify the optimal student talk time. Then you will learn 6 key best practices for increasing STT. After doing so, you will check your knowledge to see if your ready to move on. If so, then you will apply what you’ve learned to 3 different classroom scenarios. Finally, we will recap and reflect at the end. Let’s learn!

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Audio: First, let’s learn about 6 Key Strategies to help increase STT. They are 1. Name Cards 2. Warm Ups 3. Pre-Scripted Dialogues 4. Conversation Cards 5. Turn and Talk 6. Student-Led Discussions. You will learn about them in the next 6 slides. There will be a knowledge check covering all these strategies at the end. You will need an 80% or better to move onto the scenarios. You may take the knowledge check as many times as you need to master the content.

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Audio: This simple practice allows you to call on students in a random order and ensures equal talking opportunity for all. It can be used for all levels. Although, make sure you implement this practice in the first days of class. Your students will know that they can be called on at any point, which will enhance engagement with material. These are also a great way to pair or group students fairly. Remember: it is vital that you start this practice at the very beginning of your course. Trying to implement this in the middle or towards the end may confuse your students or even cause some resentment. If they aren’t used to being called on, then it can come as quite a shock and even cause embarrassment. And we definitely don’t want that.

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Audio: Warm Ups engage students quickly. If you are a runner, you warm up your muscles before you go for a run. It’s the same with language learning, we want to warm up our skills gently before we dive into more cognitively demanding material. These are quick, typically fun and engaging activities to get the students thinking and talking in the target language. Some examples are: Find Someone Who, Two Truths and a Lie, 5 Minute Chats,

This strategy can be used with all levels. But – make sure to be mindful that the warm up activity is appropriate for the particular level you are teaching. Th

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Audio: This is an excellent activity for all levels for many reasons. One, the students do not have to create new information, so there is less cognitive demand. Two, they get to work with their peers which de facto builds community. Also, performing the dialogue is less stressful because they are not alone. Lastly, and probably most importantly, the students are learning real-life chucks of English that they can start using the minute they walk out of your classroom. And this is what the students truly want and need.

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Audio: This is another fantastic activity that gets the whole class talking. Students are engaged with the target language, which is English in our case, and they get to practice a specific grammar point or language lesson repeatedly. Each student is given a card with a question. All of the question cards are different. For example, one card may be: “What’s your address?” another could be: “Tell me your telephone number.” Obviously, the questions would change depending on the level you are teaching, but I imagine you get the point. After the students get their cards, they then circulate around the room, asking each of their classmates the question on their card and then answering the questions that their peers ask them.

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Audio: This is exactly what it sounds like. The teacher poses a question, topic, or prompt to the class. Students are asked to turn to a partner. If there is an odd number of students, groups of three can be formed. Students discuss the question or topic with their partner for a set amount of time, usually 2-5 minutes. This gives each student the opportunity to speak and listen. After the discussion, pairs can be asked to share their thoughts with the larger group. This can be done by selecting a few pairs to present or by having a more open sharing session. This activity build confidence, encourages active participation, and develops communication skills. This strategy would probably not be appropriate for your beginning level students, though, since their conversation skills are still quite limited.

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Audio: Last, Student-led discussions are where students take the lead in discussing topics, guiding the conversation, and engaging with their peers. This method is for your more advanced students and encourages active participation, critical thinking, and the use of English in a more natural and spontaneous way. To conduct these - First, choose a topic and give your learners a bit of time to think about it. Then divide the class into small groups or pairs to ensure everyone has a chance to participate. Make sure to assign roles such as a discussion leader, note-taker, and timekeeper to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to speak. After the discussion time is over, each group presents a summary of their discussion to the class.

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Audio: Now it’s time to check your knowledge. The 6 Key BPs are on the right. Their descriptions are on the left, but the are scrambled. You will need to rearrange them so that the correct description matches its corresponding key term. You may have as many attempts at this activity as you need until you feel you have mastered all the concepts.

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Audio: Excellent! You are now ready to apply what you have learned to a few real-world teaching scenarios.

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Audio: Almost! Try the matching again to see if you can get them all correct. You have unlimited tries to master the content.

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Audio: Now it’s time to show what you know. There will be 3 real world classroom scenarios where you must decide how to handle the situation. If your choices result in a negative experience for the students, you will be redirected back to the beginning of the scenario where you have another shot at providing an engaging learner experience with plenty of talk time. You’ve got this!

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Audio: Oh no! The students in your Beginning Adult ESL class are very reluctant to speak English. You feel badly calling on them by name because it may be too stressful. You keep waiting for them to volunteer. But now it's the 3rd week of class, and you're the only one speaking English.

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Audio: Which of these three Best Practices would you implement to encourage learners to speak in class?

CHOICES: Conversation Cards, Pre-Scripted Dialogues, or Name Cards

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Audio: Students look confused and upset. They start speaking in their native languages with groups and/or partners. This is too difficult for them. You notice a few students leave class during the activity and don't come back after the break.

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Audio: Now what do you do? Should you modify the conversation cards next time or should you vow never to use them again?

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Audio: Students are happy the next time you do this because they get an opportunity to practice simple conversations with sentence stems. Well done! The activity is now at their level and is appropriately scaffolded.

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Audio: By doing this you have missed out on an opportunity to teach them simple conversation skills using better scaffolded conversation cards.

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Audio: Excellent choice! Your students feel comfortable using English when you have them practice the dialogue with a partner. They can read along with it and don't have to come up with answers on their own. The dialogue is simple enough to facilitate speaking but challenging enough to teach them some new vocabulary. It’s reassuring to see your students smiling during the activity. You want to extend the STT, so what should you do next?

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Audio: RESULT: You want to extend the STT, so what should you do next?

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Audio: RESULT: This is a perfect extension activity. Your students feel confident to perform the dialogue in front of class because they have practiced it many times and they also have a partner to perform with.

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Audio: Excellent! You increased STT by having the students practice pronunciation of specific words in the dialogue that seemed to cause the most trouble. You know the students really liked this activity because a bunch of them said “good” and “very good” afterwards.

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Audio: You try to use name cards for the first time but your students look angry and frustrated when you call on them. They do not like being put on the spot. Some don't show up for the next class. How are you going to rectify this? Don’t use name cards again or contact the students who didn’t show up for class.

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Audio: The students you call on look angry and frustrated. They do not like being put on the spot. Some don't show up for the next class. How are you going to rectify this? Don’t use name cards again or contact the students who didn’t show up for class.

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Audio: You see how the students look relived knowing they won't be called out in front of class. But – unfortunately - you still have missed an opportunity to increase STT.

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Audio: Most of the students you contacted decide to come back to class. They feel like you care about them. Although, you will definitely have to figure out a better way to increase STT.

Lesson Title: Module 5: Maximizing Student Talk Time

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Audio: SCENARIO #2: · Now you’re concerned about a handful of students in your Intermediate Adult ESL class. They seem to be very reluctant to volunteer to answer questions or to participate verbally. They let the more extroverted students answer all the questions. This is very common with more introverted learners. You want to encourage them to feel confident to speak up but feel like you are failing them.

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Audio: Which of these strategies would increase STT for ALL learners? Turn & Talk, Student-Led Discussions, or Conversation Cards�

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Audio: Nice choice! Your less extroverted students finally participate! This was an easy, low-stress way to include everyone while increasing student talk time.

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Audio: RESULT: You want to keep the momentum from this activity going and extend the STT, how can you do this? Ask for volunteers to share their partner conversation with the group OR have them Turn & Talk with a new partner?

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Audio: RESULT: Good thinking! Your students are eager to share their partners' answers. Everyone wants to participate!

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Audio: This is a wonderful way to continue the student talk time! The room is filled with English! ALL of your Students are actively engaged.

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Audio: Student-led discussion is too high-level for your intermediate students. And like usual, the more extroverted students with more speaking skills dominate the discussion, so it basically becomes a monologue. The introverted and less-skilled students look visibly upset.

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Audio: How can you fix this? Should you stop the discussion short and move on OR should you try to modify the discussion?

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Screen Title: Stop the Discussion Short & Move On

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Audio: You see students glance at each other and nod. They all look relieved that the activity is over. Unfortunately, this did very little to increase STT.

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Audio: Some of the quieter students start contributing a bit to the conversation, but it still seems to cause them a tremendous amount of effort. They don’t contribute as much as the more advanced and extroverted students. You can see they are upset by the expressions on their faces.

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Audio: The conversation cards worked! All your students are using the target language and having fun. You are able to circulate and give immediate formative feedback.

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Audio: Now what should you do to keep the students speaking in English? Have students switch cards and try another round OR Ask volunteers to share some of their classmates’ responses.

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Audio: RESULT: Everyone is participating! This is fantastic. The students are laughing and using the target language. This is an excellent way to get closer to 70/80 % STT.

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Audio: Many students are eager to share what their partners said. You decide to have each learner share one thing so everyone get STT. Well done!

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Audio: SCENARIO #3: Last, you need to figure something out quickly for your Advanced Adult ESL class. Retention is at an all-time low. If you lose any more students, your boss will cancel the class. You remember that your course evaluation showed students were disappointed in the lack of talk time. You realize that you have been lecturing these students on grammar and watching current event videos for the past few weeks. It’s time for them to practice their English - not YOU!

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Audio: What can you do to quickly increase STT for these students? Warm Ups/ Pre-Scripted Dialogues/ Student-Led Discussion

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Audio: While this does get a few students talking, it's not a structured enough activity to prolong talk time for everyone. Some of the students look bored because others are dominating the conversation.

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Screen Title: Warm Ups & Decision Point

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Audio: How can you pivot to get everyone talking more? Finish the Warm Up Quickly OR Do a Whip Around so everyone can quickly share?

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Audio: Students look relived to be moving on. But you realize that this probably wasn’t the best choice to increase student talk time.

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Audio: All students participate in this activity. They seem to feel happy to have some equal talk time, yet this doesn’t do enough to increase STT that much since it’s such a short activity.

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Audio: Excellent choice! The students love this, especially because you chose a dialogue with common, everyday expressions. They have plenty of time to practice and each student gets equal speaking time. This is one of the best ways to increase student talk time at any level.

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Audio: They are enjoying this activity so much that you want to extend it. How can you do that for these advanced students? Perform the Dialogue or have them Create their own Mini-Dialogue.

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Audio: Nicely done! Like your Beginning students, your advanced students really get into performing these dialogues. Since they are real-world, useful conversations, the students leave class excited to try out the new phrases.

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Audio: Good idea! – but you notice that they could use more scaffolding next time. Overall, though, the students enjoyed trying to create dialogues on their own, which had them communicating with each other in English for the majority of the class.

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Audio: The student-led discussions are a big hit with the students! They love being in small groups of 2 or 3 where each person gets a chance to contribute. They also appreciate the formative feedback as you circle the room.

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Audio: What should you do to keep the students talking to ensure you hit that 70-80% target STT? Group Share or Make New groups?

Lesson Title: Module 5: Maximizing Student Talk Time

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Audio: Excellent STT extension. The students are highly engaged. And there is almost a competition to see who can share the most. Nicely executed!

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Audio: Fabulous. You really understand how to increase STT now. Some of the students tell you that this was one of the best classes yet because they had so much talk time! Way to go!!

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Audio: Great job making it to the end of Module 5: Maximizing Student Talk Time! Let's quickly recap what we've learned. First, we identified the target percentage of STT and the importance of increasing it in adult in-person ESL classrooms. We then explored six key strategies: Name Cards, Warm Ups, Pre-Scripted Dialogues, Conversation Cards, Turn and Talk, and Student-Led Discussions. You showed your mastery of these by checking your knowledge and then applied this new knowledge to 3 real-life classroom scenarios. Knowing how to do this can shift your classroom dynamics to be more student-centered by enhancing engagement. Remember, the goal is to aim for 70% to 80% student talk time. Lastly, on the next slide we will talk about reflecting on what you have just learned.

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Audio: It’s always important to reflect on what you've learned. Take a moment to think about your own classroom. How much student talk time do you currently have? What strategies could you implement to increase it? Make it a point this week to write down at least one action you plan to take to enhance student talk time in your classes. Please do this in the Reflection Journal you received at the beginning of this training. Remember: Reflecting on and planning these actions will help you integrate these best practices into your teaching , increasing student talk time and ultimately to student success!

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Audio: Congratulations on completing Module 5: Maximizing Student Talk Time! You now have a toolkit of strategies to create a more engaging and interactive classroom environment that increases STT. Click the button below to download your certificate of completion. Keep up the great work and continue to create opportunities for your students to practice and improve their English skills. Thank you for your dedication to enhancing student learning. See you in the next module!