Raising Pre-service Teachers’ Awareness Of Introvert Learners

Abstract

In our classrooms, some students are all the time silent and very attentive; they take notes and maintain eye contact with their teachers while explaining the lessons.However, they prefer not to take part in class discussion and do rarely participate. When the teacher obliged them to speak, they feel blocked and blemish, but they are very good at writings. Hence, if novice teachers are not aware of the characteristics of introverted learners and how to deal with them, they will make the situation worse,and they will hurt them without even knowing. In this article, I provide my personal experience in the module of didactics with third-year students of English- Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba- and how I raised their awareness of how to deal with introvert learners as future teachers.The experiment was based on pre-service training that includes psychological preparation, classroom management, leaner-learner interaction, cooperative learning, lesson preparation, rehearsal and performance. The results were very promising as the great majority of introvert learners became more engaged and involved in classroom participation and discussion as theydeveloped their self confidence in speaking in public.