Messages and Tips from Eduka's Senior Academic Manager about Adapting EFL Materials

In a conversation exercise, there must be elements of greeting, small talk, response, and also follow up. This means that there must be the same reciprocity between the questioner and the answerer. So, an interactive conversation that is interesting for students emerges. In addition to questions, there also needs to be a closing and also a combination of expressions and gestures for both parties so that the conversation exercise becomes more interesting.

In the EFL teaching process, engagement is the key to successful EFL learning. This engagement includes teacher presence, brain breaks, student involvement, good balance of activities, movement, roles/responsibilities, and games and competitions. When this engagement is applied, good results will be obtained by both teachers and students.

As for learning materials, there are several things that need to be considered. The first is the relevance of the material, the second is productive possibilities, then there must be an application of the PIE method, the use of the same material repeatedly for students to improve concentration and memory, good teamwork, encouragement, application of the curriculum to the world of students, and the last and most underlined by Andrew Hunt is that when someone becomes a teacher, there must be a sense of enjoyment and pride in him.