“Boomerang” Method

Azida, Mashitah, Zura, Azlin

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Boomerang Approach
• It is a task-based approach.
• In Boomerang approach, teacher will get students’ attention
- engage (E) and after the phase, teacher gets students to
perform a task - activate(A) using any language they know
and then, the teacher go back to the language -study (S).
• The study phase is then undertaken based on what the
teacher witnessed in the students’ language performance.
• The teacher in short will fill in the gaps of the students’
knowledge.
• To check that learning has taken place the students are
then re-activated.
• Engage : Students get interested in
teacher’s lesson or discussion.
• Activate : Students get participated in the
lesson actively -Questioning and answering.
• Study : Students will discover where they
went wrong and they might do some
controlled practice of the language.
• (Activate) : Student will apply new
knowledge gained from study phase into
another situation.
• The connection between what students need
to learn and what they are taught is more
obvious.
• Teacher must be able to find good teaching
materials.
• It is more appropriate for students at the
intermediate and advance levels.
• In this EASA , the teacher wait for boomerang
to come back before deciding what students
need to study compared to in ‘straight arrows’
where teacher knows what students need.