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Teaching for Success
Inclusion in the Classroom
Creating and sustaining a more inclusive
language classroom
Phil Dexter, Teacher Development Adviser, British Council, UK
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Communication skills
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“All school subjects
are our subjects”
Wilga Rivers 1983
Commenting on foreign language teaching
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What shape are our textbooks and notebooks?
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Let’s share together an example of an inclusive language activity……..
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Language learning – a helping hand, foot and anything else!
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Co-occurring needs
Expressive and receptive language
– text based approaches
Concentration/Focus
Communication
Organisation of work/tasking
Fast and slow thinking
Working memory
Sequencing and organisation
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Important not to prejudge in identifying language difficulties…..but to notice
It can be difficult to identify speech and language difficulties in the English or language class because many of the indicators occur naturally when a student is learning a new language
Expressive and receptive language difficulties that occur in the learner’s own language will likely also appear when learning another language.
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What learners might say - expressing their needs
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“I get into trouble a lot because the teacher tells me
to do things and then I can’t remember what to do.
She thinks I’m doing it on purpose but I’m not. I try to
remember her words but they’ve just gone.”
“I really like learning English and I know quite a lot of
English words. We play games in the English class
which are great and we act out scenes. I like singing
songs in English. The problem is when we have to
copy new words from the board. I always get them
wrong and have to keep looking back at the board. It
takes so long. The words don’t come out right even
though I spend ages doing it.”
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What we can notice:
Sequencing and grammar
•Inappropriate grammatical structures:
Missing out the ends of words such as ‘ing’ and ‘s’: She is go home. She feel tired. •There may be errors with tense marking: I eated the cake •Word order •Jumbled up speech •Telling or retelling stories in the right sequence
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What we can notice: phonological
processing difficulties
Substituting one sound for another • ‘l’ is replaced with ‘y’, so ‘light’ becomes ‘yight’ and ‘pillow’ becomes ‘piyow’. Problems pronouncing phoneme clusters: • ‘crisp’ become ‘kisp’ or ‘spend’ becomes ‘pend’. Leaving out prefixes: • ‘computer’ becomes ‘puter’ and ‘annoyed’ becomes ‘noyed’.
Tip: Familiarise yourself with the learner’s sound system
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Some possible solutions for inclusive
language learning approaches
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no magic tricks, but….
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Figurative language
Metaphor
Idioms Sarcasm
Irony
taking things too literally communication breakdown
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Leads to
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Metaphorical and literal expressions
Has the cat got your tongue?
You’re a little ray of sunshine
Do you get butterflies in your stomach before
taking a test?
I can’t make head or tail of what you are saying
You need to pull your socks up this term
She was only pulling your leg
I’m going to keep an eye on you today
It went in one ear and out the other
Now please stand and toast the bride and groom
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Working to strengths based approaches imagination, holistic/big picture thinking, kinaesthetic and visual
memory, strong intuition and creativity
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Calming, categorising and
trans-lingual activity
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Colour coded sentence making
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Articles
Adjectives
Nouns
Verbs
Prepositions
Adverbs
The blue laughing cat sleeps happily as the dog eats her lunch under the bed
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Phoneme awareness:
Discriminating English vowel sounds like / I / and / i: /
Kineasthetic Activity
King Will Queen Jean
Cheese*Meat*Liver*Beans*Chips*Chicken* Leeks*Fish*Yeast*Milk*Greens*Peaches
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Irregular verbs activity
Mum and twins Mixed bag
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have had had
ate eat eaten
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Supporting literacy, skills, communication,
language and communication
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‘Approaches to special educational needs
and inclusive learning’ course
uU
Free starter module: http://bit.ly/2jC80VJ
Information on course
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Understanding Special Educational Needs – introduction
Engaging with Special Educational Needs
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A final thought on inclusive language learning
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Thank you [email protected]
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