Teaching - Learning Space

  What is meant by an intellectual interaction in a classroom? Interaction between teachers and students which is needed to do classroom activities to go toward a common goal can be considered an intellectual interaction. Thus, having a teacher-student interaction, the gap between teacher and student in the classroom will disappear. Why interaction between teachers and students is important? Teachers having a positive interaction with their students create a classroom environment more helpful and productive for the teaching and learning process. It helps to meet students’ developmental, emotional and educational needs. Positive teacher-student interaction has a very crucial role for effective teaching and learning to take place (Arthur, Gordon, and Butterfield, 2003). The teacher-student interaction depends on the effort of both to initiate it as a positive interaction. Thus, teacher-student interaction highly influences the skills of a student. On the other hand, it has an i...

What is intellectual interaction? Intercultural interaction within the ESL classroom can be a challenge for many facilitators. Classroom interaction tends to be diverse. Intellectual interaction happens when the learner-learner, learner-teacher, or teacher-teacher may exchange knowledge resulting in a reciprocal effect on each other's intellectualism. Here, the teacher and students communicate back and forth in English, exchanging and interchanging their thoughts and ideas.  Why it is important to increase intellectual interaction among learners? Many educationalists believe that learning does not occur in the classroom and rather believes that it happens in the real world. In line with interaction, Vygotsky suggests the term Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)  which describes the capability of learners to receive help from their social environment. It pinpoints that learning is not just an individual task but rather a social process. Therefore, intellectual interaction helps ...

        F ruitful interaction between the learners and the teacher has been one of the main focus of any English as a Second Language classroom. According to Allright (1984), in order for students to achieve a high level of communicative competence, classroom instruction has "heavily relied on the significance of interaction of live; person to person encounters". Having a fruitful interaction among the learners and the teacher will eventually make the learners more involved with the process of language learning while giving the opportunity for the teacher to observe and supervise the learners to get the best out of learning process. So , what are the strategies that can be implemented to have increased interaction between the learners and the teacher? Classroom Diversity and Inclusion                   First of all, all the students should be included in the teaching process. It is the teacher's responsibility to make stud...

                                                                                  Why teacher-learner interaction is important?   Teachers are the resource people in education who bring their knowledge into practice to build up an educated society. As we experience as learners, our interaction with the teacher plays a role in creating that positive or negative environment in the classroom. Having a wall between the learners and the teacher will not only help the teacher to identify the mentality of the learner within the classroom and the learner to open up with the teacher to share their ideas, problems, or opinions. So, in a less interactive classroom, the teacher comes, teaches, and goes, and the learners just sit down without going f...