What is the importance of eliciting prior knowledge?
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Elicitation prior knowledge is important as it helps to activate existing mental framework, build connections and create a foundation for new learning. It allows learners to make meaningful association, engaging with new information more effectively and promotes a deep understanding of the subject matter.
- JennyCertified ESL Teacher who helps her student in Conversational English.
It is important because it connects the student's previous learning to his current learning.
- MelissaCertified ESL and TEFL
Assessing students' prior knowledge allows an instructor to focus and adapt their teaching plan. For students, it helps them to construct connections between old and new knowledge.
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It's great when a student is at a specific level, it may save you the time of teaching them the basics. But if your student is having trouble with prior knowledge like how to use "A, An and the" which is a common problem new student have then it's better to just go over it again to correct the foundations.
- JennyCertified ESL Teacher who helps her student in Conversational English.
"Schema" or prior knowledge is very important especially if we encounter new topic.
Prior knowledge helps to activate the learning that is held in the subconscious and helps to make conscious connections with new learning. This in turn helps to embed the learning and makes the foundations stronger.
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Prior knowledge help students construct connections between existing and new knowledge.
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- Can you share your experience how you teach students conditionals?
What kind of method do you use to explain clearly each conditional for students? Do you provide some examples from real life and how you do it? Thank you!
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The best approach is to expose students to the what conditionals are through explanation. Explain all the types of conditionals providing examples for each. Then the details of the structure of each type of conditionals would better come last, then strengthen understanding by having the student produce written and spoken language. Lastly, expose them to more reading and real life listening examples regarding this, sometimesas homework. To gauge their understanding of the structure, give fill in exercises.
- Could you explain me, please, when I need to use 0,1,2,3 and mixed conditionals? Thank you!
Can you provide examples?
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Mixed conditional combined second and third conditionals to talk about the past situations has a present consequence or a present situations that is a result of a past action Structure: If + past perfect + would +verb If I had studied medicine, I would be a doctor now.
