identifying priorities.

Identifying priorities

• teaching which is based on the skills and instincts children bring with them to the classroom;

• the development of attitudes and responses which contribute to the process of developing competence in another language;

• ways of working with the language for real.

• If we take these priorities seriously then we are obviously no longer talking about classrooms where the children spend all their time sitting still in rows or talking only to the teacher.

• We are also talking about teaching which will sometimes involve teachers in adapting the textbook or in devising activities of their own.

• In both respects we need to be realistic.