Approaches and Techniques in ELT Methodologies

Learner-centered teaching Assessment Task

1. List 3 characteristics of Learner-centered teaching.

a. Learner-centered teaching encourages students to work in collaboration with other learners.

b. Learner-centered teaching motivates students to monitor their own learning to develop

strategies for learning.

c. Learner-centered teaching engages students to work in collaboration with other learners.

2. List 3 ways how students benefit from Learner-centered teaching.

a. Students motivation and actual learning increase.

b. Students gain self-confidence and feel good about themselves once they meet with success
in assuming new responsibilities.

c. Students will demonstrate higher achievement when they can attribute success to their own
abilities.

3. List 4 ways a Learner-centered teaching classroom can be created.

a. The instructors can guide the learners set goals for themselves besides offering self-directed
activities that helps the learners to build their self-confidence and also learning skills.

b. The instructors also encourage learners to discover how they learn best by applying different
strategies which are suitable for each learner.

c. The instructor role changes from “sage on the stage” to “guide on the side”, where the
instructors lead less and facilitate more, while the learners taking on the responsibility for
organizing content, generating examples, posing and answering questions, and solving
problems.

d. The instructors move from whole-class instruction to small-group and individual inquiry by
implementing the student-centered lesson.