Getting the Buggers Into Languages

Buggers

by Amanda Barton

Following the winning formula of 'Getting the Buggers to Behave', this practical guide provides teachers with a range of practical strategies that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages, especially boys. Amanda Barton shows how learning languages can be transformed into a fun and exciting activity with the use of such simple aids as business cards, jokes, comics and red and yellow cards. Many teachers are particularly concerned with the problem of underachieving boys, and specific strategies to address this issue are provided in chapters 2 and 4. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of modern language teaching, this book will prove essential reading for every modern language teacher.

Genres: Teaching

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

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Reviews

[Jin Kok · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best way to increase your learning speed:

1) Find what excites you when learn a language
2) Stay away from what does not excite you
3) Learn in groups
4) Break down the learning experience - is best to learn in 30mins interval.
As the brain works best by learning in small bits.

People would be rather corrected by a partner than a teacher in public. I guess that's the pride of "saving face".

Rhyming helps with retention better, that's why songs help to imbed the new language easier into the memory.

Tips to learn a language
1) Fun History session and try to describe the events from the photographs in that adopted language.
2) Learn an exotic language from a website eg: bbc chinese or mandarintools.com
3) Learn about fascinating facts . For eg: learning 3 facts a day and learn how to describe it.
Eg: using trivia websites such as rdasia.com or dailysoft.com
Eg: Why was Eiffel Tower build?
Eg: Why was the Berlin Wall Build? What are the outcomes from it?

[Fab · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it's aimed at teachers in the UK, teaching other languages ( whereas I teach EFL) there are still some useful ideas to pick up, as with the other books in the "bugger" series, must reread some of them.

[Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of useful information and interesting insights into how students actually think.