КАКОЕ ДЗ НЕ НУЖНО ДАВАТЬ НА ДОМ. ВЗГЛЯД МЕТОДИСТА TESOL

Open the glossary at the back of your textbook to page 128 and learn the 20 words we covered today. There will be a test on Thursday, and also memorize the paragraph on page 20, in English, of course. No, you won't be allowed to peek. Does this way of assigning homework sound familiar? I think every

one of us has heard this phrase, this type of homework assignment, at school or university at least once. And, hand on heart. Sometimes we have even assigned homework to our own students in this very way. Let’s be honest, how many of these twenty words will the average student remember and later use in live speech in English or any other

foreign language? How many of these words will remain in their active vocabulary? And what will become of this memorized text in the future? They just rote-learned it. There wasn't even any work done to understand the text. What usually happens after such a homework assignment? Yes, they memorized it and got a good grade, but

on Tuesday, during a speaking task, they can't utter a single word. That is , they freeze up, they can't use any of the words you studied at all, and they just try to structure their thoughts in Russian using English words. The teacher gets upset, thinking they didn't study. "Such a short attention span.""It's all their TikToks 'fault.""

Memory like Dory the fish." But in reality, it’s not the student’s fault. The problem lies in the specific homework and the format we, as teachers , assign to our students. My name is Elena Sizikova. I am a methodologist, trainer, and founder of the Method Academy for foreign language teachers. I am a history teacher by training, but