"Initiating and concluding an efl class in order to favor language learning"

Abstract

This study aims to determinate how warm up and wrap up activities were applied, showing their utility in my EFL classes. Providing a wide variety of advantages such as to reinforce knowledge, captivate students’ attention, motivate students, check students’ comprehension through the topic, consolidate the class in a meaningful way, give feedback when necessary, and favor students’ comprehension. I began by identifying a situation, then I developed an action plan, which was implemented and analyzed to produce the results presented in this essay. One of the difficulties faced in this study was the way that students were traditionally being taught; not having English classes where a warm up or wrap up were used. Those two stages represented fundamental activities because they provided the possibility to reinforce students’ learning and check comprehension about the topic presented. For that reason, designing and implementing teaching strategies and resources that contribute in the students’ learning process through the initiating and closing activities are presented in this essay. The result obtained was that the use of different visual resources like posters, flashcards, audios questions or just the board and the use of body language were useful to engage students’ learning and reinforce their knowledge at the beginning and/or at the end of classes. As a consequence, the findings indicated that when visual resources were used students’ motivation, participation, and comprehension of the topic were more noticeable and therefore the language goal reached.