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ENGLISH LESSONS - Coggle Diagram
ENGLISH LESSONS
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LEARNING THROUGH STORIES
- Emphasize the authentic use of language
- 2 key features of stories: temporal sequence and thematic structure
- typical stories follow a pattern (Propp and Labov)
- parallelism
- rich vocabulary
- alliteration
- contrast
- metaphor
- intertextuality
- narrative vs. dialogue
- quality of stories
- 2 types of stories: real books and specially written educational books
- key points for selecting a story: engagement, values and attitudes, discourse structured, dialogue vs. narrative, language use, new language
LANGUAGE LEARNING TASKS
- Preparation activity: brainstorming vocabulary
- Core activity: reading the story--> the first reading and a second reading (ask children to racall or predict what appens)
- Follow up activity: vocabulary learning (draw a picture and choose and write down some vocabulary)
TASKS AROUND A STORY
- LISTENING SKILLS
- DISCOURSE SKILLS: -acting roles, retelling the story, using story discourse in other context, expanding story scenarios
- FOCUSED READING SKILLS PRACTICE : emergent literacy, comprehension, phonic and sight words
TEACHER TALK
different FUNCTIONS:
- managing
- explaining
- checking understanding
- giving feedback
- eliciting
- providing input
- interpersonal talk
Caretaker talk--> helping children learn a new language
- Talk about
- ways to start a lesson
- class teacher's approach
- organizing the classroom
- teaching tips
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HOW TO PREVENT LEARNING
-TEACHER TALK TIME (TTT)
-ECHO
-HELPFUL SENTENCE COMPLETION
-COMPLICATED AND UNCLEAR INSTRUCTIONS
-NOT CHECKING UNDERSTANDING
-FEAR OF GENUINE FEEDBACK
-INSUFFICENT AUTHORITY
-RUNNING COMMENTARY
-LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN SELF
-FLYING WITH THE FASTEST
-OVER HELPING
-NOT REALY LISTENING
-WEAK SUPPORT
DEVELOPING TEACHER TALK
- Language acquisition vs. language learning
- receptive skills vs. productive skills
- interlanguage
- corrective feedback
- form-focused feedback: giving explanation concerning the words used
- scaffolding techniques
- Wells (3 key features of scaffolding)
- quantity vs. quality of TTT
- Classroom Interactive Competence (Walsh)
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DEMYSTIFING THE READ-LOUD
- Oral storytelling vs. reading aloud
- what is a picturebook
- picturebook read-aloud
- picurebook mediation
Different stages of a picturebook read-aloud:
- BEFORE the read-aloud
- DURING the read-aloud : the picturebook as aesthetic object, children, teacher
- ATER the read-aloud