[KateHoca]

I'm an ESL teacher in Turkey and I'm having a difficult time motivating the adult students in one of my classes to speak.

They are great at parroting or piecing together basic sentences, but when it comes to creating an all new sentences they stumble.

My students have fabulous grammar considering they are beginners; seeing as grammar is a big deal for Turkish people. However, they just aren't pulling their weight when comes to speaking.

They have the grammar, they know the vocabulary, and I've tried giving them an assortment of topics and I've played countless games with them to facilitate speech. But it just isn't happening!

I have three classes and this class is the only one that is having issues. I've begun to wonder if the class dynamics are messed up or if the students themselves are just not very chatty by nature.

What do you think?