What are effective ways to use learner beliefs in language teaching evaluation?

One strategy that I have found to be very helpful is to constantly question the students and allow them to speak without interruption. Also giving them full attention and care.

Beliefs and misbeliefs are deeply built in foreign language learners and not easy to change. A common (mis)belief among foreign language learners is that one needs a special "talent" to learn a (foreign) language.

Surveys and interviews are very effective ways to use learner beliefs in evaluating language teaching. There is enough space in both ways to inquire about their preferences, challenges and achievements and goals

I think it's as simple as recognising the learning styles of the students. That being said, one particular approach comes to mind... ensuring "differentiated teaching" is taking place. If you know, you know...

Utilize learner beliefs: pre-assessment surveys, mid-course check-ins, reflective tasks, feedback mechanisms, peer learning activities, learner autonomy, continuous communication. Gain insights, adjust teaching strategies, foster engagement, promote metacognitive awareness, empower learners, enhance language instruction effectiveness.

My main belief as a teacher is that the desire and curiosity to learn is essential. So to align my beliefs to my students, I will find out what interests them and use that to engage their interest. Through the understanding gained, I then further align how I present language items in the sessions.

Es muy probable que nuestras creencias entren en conflicto con las de nuestros estudiantes, sobre todo con los de las nuevas generaciones. Por eso es sumamente importante que tanto alumnos como docentes dejen en claro sus objetivos y estrategias. El paso siguiente será una posible negociación.

One thing I have found useful during the learning process is that being a teacher means you have to talk to your students and let them express their ideas.

One thing I have found helpful is to bring to mind samples of local culture-related topics to urge discussion. Especially as the substance is already known to learners, a mentor's job is to pave the way for fruitful learning by initiating interactive communication and group contribution. As beliefs are as rooted as traditions, views about them are a food for thought which can yield a lot of ideas if rightly encouraged by an educator.

In my last experience I needed to teach environmental issues to production foremen who had never thought about the topic and believed that it could be relevant to them. I started with supporting them and told that I did understand their feelings but their customers are people with ecological minds and they had to deal with them successfully. This practical approach mad my students think more, ask questions and later on they easily operated the terms and were creating new eco-friendly ideas to implement at their workplaces.

The best way to evaluate teaching methods and techniques is by observing the results more than following a certain method or the other in comparison to what skills the learner is expected to learn and focus on

The best way to evaluate teaching methods and techniques is by observing the results more than following a certain method or the other in comparison to what skills the learner is expected to learn and focus on

The best way to improve on the effectiveness of learners evaluation, it lays mainly on the method used and promptly monitoring their progression and believe.

In my personal experience, I have especially benefitted from using mid-course feedback where I would simply gather anonymous feedback from students, midway through the course, to assess their satisfaction, identify their emerging needs and expectations and modify the flow of the course based on their feedback; that is if it's necessary. I also use and learn from the 'end of semester surveys or evaluation forms', at the end of the course, to gather their final reflections, evaluations, and recommendations for future instruction.

…as educators, we believe that it is our task to teach our students how to develop more tolerance for the other, to be able to hear voices and languages other than our own, i.e. to be able to develop a holistic, inclusive, and not an exclusive, monologist speech…

If you feel that your belief and values are different from your students', start learning! The tolerance you can give them will come back to you.

Ser docente, de idiomas o de cualquier otro espacio curricular, no implica que la formación se ha terminado. No hay nada más desalentador que un docente estancado que se niega a probar cosas nuevas o rechaza los cambios. Si queremos retar a los alumnos para que enfrenten nuevos desafíos, nosotros también debemos hacerlo (siempre dentro de los límites de lo saludable, por supuesto).