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