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ESA is a learning methodology invented by Jeremy Harmer. April 30, 1947, He has taught English in Mexico and the UK and has trained teachers around the world. He is the series editor of the How to teach ... series, and the author of the highly acclaimed The Practice of English Language Teaching and How to teach English. The ESA method which he invented, has all the factors students need in a classroom, for example: motivated, exposed to the language, and have the opportunity to use it. ESA is short for engage, study activate. The three most needed factors a teacher need to base his/her classroom upon. By using ESA, it gives teacher's the flexibility to conduct a classroom in an organized and productive way. The engage phase is where the teacher gets the students motivated, heated up, and ready to dive in the new lesson. Engaging the students can include showing pictures, playing simple games, discoveries, discussions with the whole class, miming and acting, prompting the students to answer, and using questions to get the students thinking and speaking in English. The goal of the engage phase is to get the student's attention and to elicit the meaning of words or topics that will be covered in the lesson. The study phase is where the teachers gives the students the lesson planned. The study phase can consist of many activities, such as studying from texts and dialogues, example sentences, crosswords, gap-fill exercises, word searches, matching games, and drilling. All of them are purposely made with the students to help them understand and fully engulf the new words or structures. The activate phase is where the teacher practices what the students have learned with them. The activate phase may include discussions that are for the whole class, small groups, or even pairs, role-play, story building, tasks such as posters or advertisements, simulations, and debates. Its main purpose is to get the students to use the word or structures learned so that the teacher knows which of the students learned the lesson correctly and which did not. Also, for the students to have fun. The most common structure of ESA is the straight arrow method which starts with an engage stage, then a study stage, and then ends with an activate phase. Teachers can also use a boomerang structure or patchwork structure. Boomerang is where there’s an activate phase after each phase of study or engage. Patchwork is where the teacher moves the class between multiple phases of activate study and engage, to keep their minds opened. At the end, all that matters is that the teacher starts off by engaging the students and ends with activating the students. So basically, the ESA is a great method that covers every needed aspect that will help any language learner. It also is a generalized guide for teachers to follow so they don’t need a lot of preparations. An experienced teacher would want to have the class full of life and active so he or she shouldn’t follow the way every class.
