Proud to be tvmbo - Kortlopend Onderwijsonderzoek

Figure 6.2: Which classes are student respondents in?
course book (40%), interesting homework (40%), music and songs (43%), watching
video clips or DVDs (47%), having posters in the classroom to look at (40%) and
learning lists of words (45%).
More than 40% of the students find the following activities ‘a bit useful’: activities
where they move around in the classroom, learning from the course book, creative
writing, creative speaking activities, playing computer games about English, interviewing
each other, mind maps, searching for information on the Internet and discussing
their own lives.
It is clear from their responses that tvmbo students believe that they need to do something
with the language and the subject: talking about it is apparently less effective.
English outside the class
We realised during our first interviews that students learn in English outside the classroom,
for example by doing computer or online games, through listening to and singing
along to music. A question in the surveys asked them about what activities they do
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