Further recipe for success

Asociacion Cultural y Deportiva Alayos (www.alayos.com), from Granada, runs English courses in Malaga for kids, in August. It's been doing it for years. Today I present the ingredients which made the classes work out fantastic: the students really learned and had fun. I also have to say that the groups were small.


1. Positive tutorials with each student
2. It’s them who have to learn. They apply learning strategies
3. All in L2, by both the teacher and the students
4. They should use L2 as such, not to translate from L1
5. Communication
6. Massive input
7. Massive output. Through games
8. Emphasis on aural activities
9. Teacher-learners positive rapport
10. Give positive points for their scores
11. They work on "survival" topics: expressions and vocabulary
12. Listening activities
13. Watch and exploit movies (they saw one which they had already seen in L1)
14. The students need a high-reference-classmate