Making it Happen: Chapter 5

Discovering the purposeful difference between implicit and explicit teaching was revolutionary in my learning as a preservice teacher last fall. I knew I learned better (and that the learning "stuck") through implicit teaching over explicit teaching, but most of my memories of elementary school learning was in an explicit teaching setting. This chapter reviews the different methods for teaching and shares that current research does not draw a distinct conclusion between implicit and explicit instruction for L2 learners. Overall, it's important for the teacher to reflect on how the student learns best; they can be product oriented or process-oriented. I will revisit this chapter many times for the strategies for listening, speaking, reading, and writing.