Teaching English: Question & Answer session with Dr. Rod Ellis (part 1)

Suggestions for early learners:

• learn the language through input
• focus more on listening activities, to get used to hear English
• songs
• link language to action

Total Physical Response (TPR)
"A teaching method developed by James Asher thats consisted of teaching grammar y asking students to carry out a set of commands designed to provide them with comprehensible input" (Ellis, 2008, S. 981).

recast
"An utterance that 'rephrases the learner's utterance by changing one or more components (subject, verb, object) while still referring to its central meaning' (Long 1996)" (Ellis, 2008, S. 977).

Ellis, R. (2008). The Study of Second Language Acquisition: OUP Oxford.