A Personal Perspective of Interactive Learning in EFL Classes

The methods and concepts in this article are a preferred avenue to conduct a classroom setting of multiple students. This teaching Technique includes multiple questions and listings of various topical conversational musings and subjects. The students are encouraged to interact and exhibit answers via writing samples on the boards as well as speaking directly to the teacher or students. The students are given freedom to express themselves at any point during the class. There are no lectures given. Students are encouraged to disagree or debate with the teacher on any views and given ample opportunity to add or change aspects of the conversation. This positive reinforcement and encouragement, as well as the atmosphere of freedom allows the students to relax more in the academic environment. The student activity becomes more pronounced. Language is a form of expression just as music or any art form. The environment that allows for freedom of expression and creation is stimulating to growth of said art or language. That is not to say that an environment of strictures and limitations cannot also be an impetus for creation and change from a student. This can be seen in the classroom as well as any non-democratic setting. Depending on the goal of the evaluations given this method may not be the most optimum. This method is designed as an encouragement to expression of EFL in a setting that is based on positive reinforcement and not fear of embarrassment. The students are encouraged to allow for mistakes and discover the corrections, not judged nor graded by them as they would in a natural science class. Further studies could be done on this method vs. reading and writing style classes and how complimentary they are to each other.