Teaching Methods
Review of related literature This chapter consists of two main sections. The first section deals with the theoretical background of teaching methods, teaching strategies, teaching aids . The second section presents the empirical studies on teaching methods . It also presents the studies that investigate the readers' interests in teaching methods. Theoretical background keywords Teaching Methods and strategies Rosenshine and Frust (1973) reported that students learn best when the following characteristics are present: (1) variability in teaching methods and materials, (2) interest, (3) clarity, (4) task-oriented behavior, (5) teacher use of structuring comments, (6) student opportunity to learn the material, (7) multiple levels of questions, and (8) enthusiasm. Read also Limits of speaking performance Yelon (1996, p. 3) promoted the ten powerful instructional principles that he believed excellent teachers apply which are: meaningfulness, prerequisites, open commun...