students centered learning

I did not know how important is that a class be more students centered than teacher sentences.

now I  know how it helps students in their language learning .i learned activities like information gaps

and activities where the students can interact between or among them and with the teacher and put in practice any topic.

well i tried activities like that but i felt that did not help because students talk but in Spanish and i understand them because this is their first year in the program and they just know things that i teach them this year because they were used to copy vocabulary and color or paste these were the activities that they do in class before i arriving there.I put activities for interacting when i taught preposition of place they looked for things that they know the name in English and they describe the object and asked where was it and the other students said is a book is  on the desk.But i did not interchange or mingle students.So i say that is not easy but not impossible because they are second grade levels and they know just things that i taught them this year.so it is going to be a challenge to me me but i am going to put it in practice that my classes be more students learning centered than teaching learning center because they should practice all the skills.