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In unit 3, I learned language teaching methods that built up to the Engage, Study, Activate (ESA) teaching methodology, as well as ESA and its various configurations. I now know several activities and ideas for use in the engage phase and the importance of helping students become fully engaged at this starting point. I want students to be relaxed and having fun before we transition into the study phase, which will be technical and involve more correction and feedback than other phases in ESA. I have a solid understanding of what it takes to then activate the L2 among students with activities like role-playing, discussions, and producing materials in groups. It is important at this phase to let students speak freely for fluency and communicatively for practice/activation. I appreciate the difference between mistakes (slip of the tongue) and errors (more ingrained and risk becoming habits). Feedback and correction are an important part of this unit. I see the helpfulness in allowing students to self-correct before asking other students to correct. Teacher correction is a last resort, but I don't want to linger on one student's mistake for too long as it could make them feel uncomfortable. Again, most, if not all, corrections should be made during the study phase. I actually can design my own lessons at this point, using ESA, by working off the examples given for straight arrow ESA lessons, boomerang ESA lessons, and patchwork ESA lessons.
