Hey, so I’m a uni professor teaching a basic EFL speaking/listening type of class. I’ve done this class many times before, but this semester I just happen to have a class of students who are all very beginning level, very quiet, and very apathetic about class. It’s the perfect storm💀
Most of them are late every day (by 5-30 minutes) and have spotty attendance in general. Since it’s speaking and listening, I tend to do a lot of groups/pairs where they can practice conversation and/or work on tasks together, but this class just goes silent after about 10 seconds if I try to group them up to talk about something with each other. It feels like I am dragging a big sack of potatoes through the mud when I teach this class… just having to drag them along the WHOLE time is exhausting.
Any tips for a class like this or do I just suffer through this slog all year? (I’ll have them in the Fall semester as wel)
**sorry for the title typo, I’m falling asleep 😴
by KoreWaButtDesu