Teacher Lingo: Eliciting

Hey everyone! In this video series entitled Teacher Lingo 101 I give basic explanations for key words every EFL instructor needs to know. In this episode we look at the term Eliciting. Eliciting refers to the practice of getting information from the students directly during the lesson. That way the teacher is not feeding the answers, context or examples to the students, but rather the students are being creative and using their own answers and ideas in the lesson. The lesson therefore becomes much more