Post-It Here, Post-It There,

You Can Post It AnywhereKateryna Protsenko

International House Kyiv

The International House Teachers Online Conference

9th May, 2014

INDIVIDUAL ERROR CORRECTION

INDIVIDUAL ERROR CORRECTION

• Stick the notes onto your coursebook;• Write your learners’ names;• Record their errors;• Record instances of successful language usage.

GOOD for individual attention.

EXTRA IDEA: Learner’s portfolio

ERROR CORRECTION BY AREAS

ERROR CORRECTION BY AREAS

Lexis Pronunciation

Grammar Discourse

Speaking To-Be-Shared

SPEAKING IN THE FORM OF WRITING

SPEAKING IN THE FORM OF WRITING

• Assign tasks to your learners;• Hand out Post-it notes;• Have learners complete the task by writing what they

want to say on post-it notes;• Stress (!) the fact that they can write one sentence on

one note.

GOOD for adjacency pairs, back channeling devices etc.

EXTRA IDEA: chat rooms.

USING POST-IT NOTES IN SPEAKING

Romeo and Juliet:Did Shakespeare

visit Verona?

Marie Curie: How did she meet

her husband?

USING POST-IT NOTES IN SPEAKING

• Use in transactional speaking;• Have students note down questions they want

to ask the speaker.

GOOD for keeping students involved.

EXTRA IDEA: noting down target language, e.g. how many times the speaking says ‘well’ or ‘didn’t’.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON POST-IT NOTES

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON POST-IT NOTES

• Prepare questions on post-it notes, stick them to the walls around the classroom (hallway?);

• Have students walk around and discuss. Communicative focus?!

GOOD for stirring students.

EXTRA IDEA: have students come up with questions; stick questions upside down

RECORDING NEW LEXIS

RECORDING NEW LEXIS

• Write new lexis on post-it notes instead of copybooks;

• Working with page 12? Stick post-it notes there.

GOOD for keeping the vocabulary organized; visual.

EXTRA IDEA: color-coding for topics / parts of speech / functions

NOTING DOWN ANSWERS

NOTING DOWN ANSWERS

• Learners stick a post-it note next to (onto) an exercise;

• Note down their own and correct answers.

GOOD for going through the same exercise again.

EXTRA IDEA: personalization.

PHRASE OF THE DAY

PHRASE OF THE DAY

• Like quotes as much as I do? • One page – one quote.

GOOD for chunks – no need to explain ‘money makes the world go round’ to elementary learners.

EXTRA IDEA: color coding!