9/7 Volunteers!

It is not easy to have Taiwanese students volunteer in class. In order to create an atmosphere of volunteering or to motivate Ss to volunteer, assigning a higher motivated student to volunteer in class in advance is one way. Another is to praise the behavior of volunteering, conveying the message that volunteering in class is highly valued. Sometimes when the example is set, Ss might find volunteering not that frightening. I think volunteering is a very important element of learning atonomy and active learning. Apart from language teaching, such positive attitude of learning should be emphasized as well.