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Eliciting (elicitation) is term which describes a range of
techniques which enable the teacher to get learners to
provide information rather than giving it to them.
Principles and advantages
Eliciting is based on several premises:
Collectively, students have a great deal of knowledge,
both of the language and of the real world.
This knowledge needs to be activated and used
constructively
Eliciting Lexis (Vocabulary):
Let’s say that there is a text about the common cold.
Let’s say you want to present this reading to your learners.
How can you prepare them to wholly understand the text?
By engaging them through eliciting, you can start talking
about health in general and then more personally and
specifically:
For example, the teacher elicits:
What kinds of health problems are common in most people?
What kinds of common health problems do you suffer from?
Types of questions and what to elicit:
Ask sensible questions. Not multiple part questions.
Not trivial questions. But sufficiently challenging questions
that are possible to answer from either prior knowledge
or the content of the lecture.
There are a number of good techniques that can be used
to respond to students' answers during a lecture
(the video link in the 'Optional activity' on this screen
provides a very good example). As far as possible
always try to be conversational, enthusiastic and
non-judgemental; try to pitch what you say to encourage
further answers (e.g. "That's interesting:
I hadn't thought of that! What else?").
Never just say 'Wrong!" It humiliates the student and
deters anyone else from offering answers in the future.
If an answer is wrong, try the following strategies:
Ask several people and elicit several answers before
offering your own answer or comments, and then do
so in a general and depersonalized way. For example,
"So we have a range of views here. Let's look at these
answers and examine them", rather than "John and
Felix are wrong and Raul is right."
Click below to learn about each:
Introduction to the linguistics of English.
What is Linguistics?
What is Morphology?
What is Syntax?
What is Phonetics?
What is Phonology?
What is Semantics?
What is Pragmatics?
What is eurolinguistics?
What is Sociolinguistics?
What is Language Acquisition?
What is Historical Linguistics?
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