Slide 2:
In conversation, it is often helpful to show other people that we understand what they are trying to say.
HOW?
A smile,
a nod of the head,
and eye contact
IN ORDER TO
encourage people to keep talking at work and at home. Frowning, shaking one’s head
looking away while others are speaking
will discourage others from trying!!
Slide 3:
In our EFL classes, we want to encourage each other as we learn, and make “good mistakes.”
Gestures matter - in conversation and in EFL class.
WHY????
BECAUSE THEY DO IN REAL LIFE!!!!
Slide 4:
Help your ESL students create meaningful - and memorable - conversations. TASK PRINCIPLE
MEANINGFUL TASKS => PROMOTE LEARNING
Jeremy Harmer states:
“…there has been an agreement that rather than pure de-contextualised practice, language has to be acquired as a result of some deeper experience than the concentration on a grammar point…”
Allwrights’s experiment and Prabhu’s Bangalore Project. (1991:34-35)
Slide 5:
The meaningfulness principle
Language meaningful to learners => supports learning
process.
Richard’s discussion
‘Several components of communicative competence in foreign language learning.” (1983) Communication is meaning-based:
Communication in a foreign language implies more than constructing propositions, because speakers use them in a variety of ways, for example, asking, affirming, denying, expressing an attitude etc.
Slide 6:
Activities that are truly communicative should have three features: 1.Information gap
2.Choice
3.Feedback Communicative Language Teaching
Slide 7:
NON – COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES NO COMMUNICATIVE DESIRE
NO COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE
FORM NO CONTENT
ONE LANGUAGE ITEM ONLY
TEACHER INTERVENTION
MATERIALS CONTROL A DESIRE TO COMMUNICATE
A COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE
CONTENT NO FORM
VARIETY OF LANGUAGE
NO TEACHER INTERVENTION
NO MATERIALS CONTROL
Slide 8:
II Teachers' Professional Growth FORUM 2008
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008