Just read a great post over at Oxford University Press English Language teaching blog, and would like to share a quote which I think sums up the way great teachers should go about their class work.

“The whole point of extensive reading — and how it achieves improvements in language proficiency — is that students read as much as possible, as often as possible, and with as much enjoyment as possible.” (The Importance of extensive reading.)

That’s proficiency development in a nutshell, in my humble opinion. For the teacher: keep it simple. The simpler we keep teaching strategies, the simpler it will be to execute them on a day to day BUSY basis.

So, push for AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE – conversation, reading, listening, writing (engagement with English.)

Push for AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE: Remind students that frequency matters to get to fluency.

And most of all: PUSH FOR FUN. Adults to kids engage with learning far more willingly and naturally when they are enjoying the process.