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There is a silent period before children open their mouth to speak. Children tend to listen to adults and keep silent at the beginning. They are inputting the language materials to get ready to output. Then when are ready to speak, they will open their mouths.

Your list is very useful for me.Thank you very much.

Thanks, I must think it over again and discuss with my students about this.

Thanks to all of you! but, I have another question, when you speak in the target language, whether your students express their defensive emotions? In my class, there often appears such a phenomenon: students always complain they can't understand ,if not totally, at least most of my words. Therefore,...

As a teacher teaching EFT in the elementary school, I always have a question,ie. Should I always speak the target language( English) during the whole process in order to create an authentic-like environment for students? However, I feel puzzled that if I explain grammer in English, they understand i...