Skill of Drilling in EFL/ESL Teaching

Purpose

Kinds

Concept

Advantages and Weaknesses

Principles

A technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms which emphasize on repeating structural pattern through oral practice to demonstrate students' ability in using specific language items in a controlled manner

How we can fix something in the mind of students

To improve students' linguistic skills

To fix a new structure in the mind of the students

To practice

Chain Drill

Expansion Drill

Transformational Drill

Mechanical Drill

Question and Answer Drill

Communication Drill

Substitution Drill

Repetition Drill

Advantages

Weeknesses

Help our learners memorise language by the teacher's control

Help the teacher correct any mistakes that students make

make the students not very creative

handle the drills only by the teacher

fairly monotonous

Meaningful

Said with appropriate expression

Realistic

Used for only a minute or two.Use signs and pictures and sound prompts to give briskness and interest to the practice

Vary the way in which you do drills to make the language more memorable

Used as a first stage ,quickly leading the way to other kinds of practice