Download - VMAN332 GOAL 3
Date
Challenges and opportunities in language teaching and learning 2. Selected skills, subskills and content areas
M2 MEEF Anglais
Shona WHYTE 16 October 2015
VMAN332
3. Skills, subskills, content areas
✤ reading, writing
✤ pronunciation
✤ pragmatics
✤ culture
What makes a good teacher?
(technical tips)
✤ sharing with learners
✤ photos.google.com
✤ wordle.net
What makes a good teacher?
✤ Jack Richards (ELT, ESL, EFL)
✤ disciplinary knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge
✤ http://sco.lt/7GzNgn
Audio for language teaching
✤ https://shonawhyte.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/easy-listening-getting-started-with-audio-in-the-language-classroom/
3. Skills, subskills, content areas
✤ reading, writing
✤ pronunciation
✤ pragmatics
✤ culture
a. reading
✤ reading and listening (Cook)
✤ teaching and testing (Grabe)
✤ phonological representations/reading (Walter)
✤ 3 areas: pre, during task, link sound/sign
b. writing
✤ Cook: writing systems
✤ Polio: role of feedback
c. pronunciation
✤ problem of pronunciation target? British? American?
d. pragmatics
✤ definition of pragmatics
✤ teaching ideas
e. culture
✤ Next session: 13 November
Some points on disciplinary and pedagogical content knowledge
✤ focus on formS versus focus on form_ (FoF)
✤ pronunciation target: English as a lingua franca (ELF)
✤ TELT: http://www.scoop.it/t/telt
Date
GOAL courseVMAN332
General requirements
✤ design a course component individually or in groups
✤ bring materials for discussion and feedback: 13, 20, 26 November; 11 December
✤ implement in class or observe implementation
✤ write a reflective paper (group, individual)
For 13 November
✤ decide on topic, question, and collect teaching ideas
✤ listening/speaking/culture?
✤ find a point of tension (theory/practice; research/programmes; lesson plan/learner reaction; teaching difficulty)
✤ look for teaching ideas and/or ways to adapt textbook activities
✤ bring articles, teaching resources, ideas, questions to class
✤ be ready to discuss your ideas/plans and give feedback to others