How to praise your students ?

ESL students need a lot of encouragement and positive feedback, so that they just open their mouths and start talking! It is very crucial for teacher to create a healthy and positive learning environment. So here is something you can say other than “Good work”

學習英文的時候，假若老師能適時給予學生鼓勵，便能增進學生對於英文的自信心，也會更願意開口練習。因此，創造出一個能激勵人心的英語學習環境，是英語老師的首要責任。

除了 "Good Work” 以外，還有別的方式來稱讚學生嗎？請看以下之範例：

• Great job!
• Excellent!
•  Bravo!
• Awesome!
• Super/ Superb!
• Fabulous!
• Wonderful!
• Well done!
• Brilliant!
• Way to go!
• You are right on point!
• You are so smart!

Another great advantage of using different praises is to increase your students’ vocabulary and listening ability. When they expose to the praise, it would automatically create a positive mental image. Even if they do not know what the word means, the positive mental image will still stay. Such image will help them feel more confident about their English and understand the word in the future.

使用不同的稱讚語彙，不但可以增強學生的自信心，還能增進學生們的聽力與字彙能力。當學生聽到稱讚的語彙時，便會在心中產生一種正面的形象，而此形象也會跟該字彙連結。儘管學生可能不了解該字彙的意涵，在他們的心中也會產生一種正向連結。