What is the Test Teach Test Approach to Teaching ESL/EFL? | Approach and Method in Language Teaching

Teaching a foreign language can be a challenging but rewarding job that opens up entirely new paths of communication for students. The Test Teach Test style of language teaching is ideal for directly targeting students’ needs. It’s best for intermediate and advanced learners and definitely don’t use it for total beginners! ------- • Check out my blog post about other teaching methods in more detail here: https://eslspeaking.org/approaches-methods-language-teaching/ • Check out another video on Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching right here: https://youtu.be/g0BVbASTnDE • Language teaching methods: The Audiolingual method @Prof Samad : https://youtu.be/_VyDYn2HNvw ------ Tips for Teaching ESL/EFL to Teenagers, University Students, and Adults: https://amzn.to/3uzYoCz https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingenglishwithjackie #languageteaching ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp for What is the Test Teach Test Approach to Teaching ESL/EFL: 0:00 Intro 0:10 What is TTT? 1:05 Example with the simple past 2:04 Conclusion Transcript for What is the Test Teach Test Approach to Teaching ESL/EFL: Hi, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about what is the test teach test approach to teaching English. So test teach test or TTT for short (if you hear that lingo somewhere) is basically when you have learners complete a task, or do a test without any help from the teacher. The goal of this first stage is for the teacher to gather information about what the learners know or don't know about that certain grammar point or vocabulary set or topic. After giving this test the teacher compiles the results and kind of takes a look at what students know and what students don't know and then the teacher teaches students what they need to know or kind of the gaps that they might have in their information about that certain topic. After that, the teacher gives another test or task to see if students have gained any new information about it. I'll give a quick example. It's quite useful for something like the simple past. Unless you teach absolute beginners, it's likely that your students already know a good bit about this grammar point because it's one of the first ones that they might see and even a very beginner ESL textbook. So most students could say, "Last night, I ate pizza." No problem but they might struggle with, "Last night I didn't ate pizza." It's not: ate last night. I didn't, it's the simple present form. Last night, I didn't eat pizza. They might also struggle with question forms. Last night, did you eat pizza? That's often quite difficult for students. For example, if you give a test you can maybe see, okay students know the simple past for regular verbs. They know the simple past for irregular verbs. However, they don't know the question forms or the negative forms. In that case, you could do a little bit of a teaching session and then give a test and then see my students have picked up that knowledge. Alright, if you want some more teaching tips, be sure to check out my book Tips for Teaching ESL or EFL to Teenagers, University Students or Adults. Tags: Test Teach Test Approach to Teaching ESL, Test Teach Test Approach to Teaching EFL, Test Teach Test Approach, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, TTT method, Language teaching, methods of teaching language, language teaching approaches, English teaching methods, esl teaching, EFL, Teach test, test, teaching English techniques,