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lisa1968 · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 52

I need to find some articles, books, anything written with a bibliography on bevaior management in the ESL classroom. Basically I need to address how to get students to not use their native language, how to get children to pay attention, how to get students to come on time, to do their homework, etc.

Is there anything like thtat out there? I appreciate any help at all. I will post this on some other parts of the forum as well. Thanks

tedkarma · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:09 am Post subject:

Most people use simple reward systems, others use grades.

While there is not likely one ultimate answer, most experienced teachers will tell you that a relevant lesson is required to motivate your students. Relevance is critical.

Take a look at: http://teflbootcamp.com/Motivation.htm for some guidance. The page has good information and a few links for more reference.

You'll get a lot further along on this - and you and your students will be much happier if you relate to it more as a motivation issue - rather than as a discipline issue. Just my opinion.

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Look up motivation, rather than behaviour management. If you motivate your kids to be interested, then they won't act so badly (at least that's the thoery). In actual practice, some kids just act out. Maybe they have ADD. Maybe their parents tell them that English isn't necessary. Maybe they are so used to being told every single little thing to do, that when given the tiniest amount of freedom they act badly because they really don't know what to do, or they are just angry from usually having absolutely no freedom.

In any case, how you manage their behaviour before they are disruptive is based on motivating them, how you manage their behaviour after they are discruptive, is based on what is allowable in the country- by a foreigner (expect it to be pretty much nothing is allowable, and so you cannot discipline them. Period).

tedkarma · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:46 am Post subject:

lisa1968 · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 52

Thank you for your replies, the problem is that I am writing a paper and I need a bibliography. All these responses are just what I learned in my TEFL course, but now I need something to cite in papers, if anyone knows anything. Thanks for helping.

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

I am writing a paper on something different, and I googled the topic and then at the bottom of all the articles I found, there were lots of lovely references for me to go and look up. If you do that, you've got a (hopefully) good online article to reference, and you can borrow all their references to look at to get more information.

good luck!

Lozwich.

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

Beyond Discipline is a fun one, but not ESL-specific. It is very heavy on the motivation stuff. I also really like most of the books published by the ASCD. This is a good starting point, but again not ESL-specific. You can always "steal" sources from the bibliographies of these books.

Note: These books are mainly relevant for the K-12 classroom.