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9 techniques to get your adult students to say more
Getting adult students to speak more can be challenging. Sometimes, students can answer questions quite confidently, but their responses are short and predictable. You ask a question, they give you a sentence, you ask another question and the cycle continues.
Of course, we want our students to speak, but we also want to help them develop the skills to keep a conversation going, explain their opinions and express themselves more freely. Here are nine techniques I use or come back to when I want to encourage my adult students to say more.