First Day Anxieties

Language Anxiety can prohibit your learners from acquiring language. Watch this video on ways you can reduce the anxiety right from day 1.

Time Stamps to quickly jump to a topic:

1:35 Seating Charts

2:41 Greeting/Checking at the Door

3:00 Immeadiate work

3:29 Chill with the TL

3:57 Establish expectations

6:44 Practicing comprehension and incomprehension

7:15 Praise communication of incomprehensibility

9:27 100% comprehensibility

10:57 Everybody's awesome!

15:54 Co-create to build community

23:04 Laugh!

24:34 Avoid the syllabus on day 1

25:09 No forced output

25:40 No error correction