Transcript APPROACHES TO YILL YILL - ADVANTAGES • Constant exposure to target language • No serious other curricular commitments • Scope for longer term, more.

APPROACHES TO YILL
YILL - ADVANTAGES
• Constant exposure to target language
• No serious other curricular commitments
• Scope for longer term, more extensive
language tasks
• Good opportunities to develop personal
study skills
• A VERY INTENSIVE PROGRAMME
YILL - ISSUES
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A VERY INTENSIVE PROGRAMME
Overload
Loss of motivation
Course management: syllabus design,
assessment
• Life after YILL
Syllabus Design
input
input
skillswork
skillswork
practice input input
practice
input
test
skillswork
practice input
test
lg. project
input
input
input
lg. project
recycle
check
input
progress
Loss of Motivation
VARIETY
PREDICTABILITY
Variety of
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Syllabus
Staff
Materials
Skills
Lesson types
Focus
Approaches
Syllabus Design
• Skills based lessons:
– Language skills
– Study Skills
• Dosing input
• Frequent Checking / Recycling /
Assessment lessons
• Different lesson types (eg. role lg projects)
Variety of Materials
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The course book (is it necessary to have more than 1?)
Grammar books
Readers
Dictionaries
Software
DVDs
Net based
Authentic
Tell me
Show me
Involve me
forget
and
I’ll
remember
learn
Main learning strategy types
• Cognitive
– Analogy (comparing lg rules) (‘I speak German and comparing new
structures to German structures helps me a lot ‘)
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Memorization (visual / auditory) (‘I can only learn it if I see it.’ )
Repetition
Writing things down (‘I always write new things down as soon as I can’ )
Inferencing (forming guesses about form / meaning of a new
item) (‘I like to have a go with language I don’t know’)
• Metacognitive
– Planning for learning (I think it is very important that we have a plan about
our learning)
– Thinking about making learning more effective (‘It’s great when we
discuss how we could become better learners’)
– Self-monitoring
• Socio – affective - Seeking opportunities for practice
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inititating conversations (I don’t mind talking to people I don’t know just to practise my English.’)
Radio, tv, language lab (‘I watch and listen to as many English language programmes as I can. I also go to
language lab to practise.’)
the
You are Marcus. It’s
Sunday today and
you have just met
Tanya, a younger
friend of yours who
you know very well.
Find out what she did
yesterday: where she
was, who she was
with, how long she
stayed and how she
went home.
You are Tanya and you
have just met Marcus
who you know very well.
Yesterday it was
Saturday and you went
clubbing again with your
friends. There were a lot
of other people in the
club and you think you
stayed until 2 am or a bit
later. You liked it there
and you took a taxi
home but it was not
easy to catch one.
Marcus and Tanya role play stages
1. Dialogue from book given out as role play
2. Feedback – elicit questions
3. Listen to original
4. Compare
1. Select a dialogue in your course book
2. Design a role play around it
3. Feedback –TASK
sortBASED
out basic language
APPROACH
issues
4. Listen to / Read original text
5. Compare the 2
6. Discuss
Rules to form Comparatives in English
Adjective Comparative
warm
warmer
expensive
big
easy
nice
far
little
good
GUIDED
DISCOVERY
Why?
Regular, monosyllabic
adjective.
GUIDED DISCOVERY
• Find lg point and relevant
resource material
• Design worksheet
• Give out wsheets and
resource materials
• Learners work individually / in
pairs / small groups
• Feedback
Input
TEST TEACH TEST
TEST TEACH TEST - STAGES
• Find an exercise that
practises target language
• TEST (Get learners to do it as a
first activity)
• TEACH (Input based on results
of previous stage.)
• TEST (Quick exercise to see if
they really got input)
There are many anecdotes about Pablo
Picasso the famous Spanish artist and
sculptor. Once Charlie Chaplin went to see
him in his studio. While Picasso was working
on one of his paintings he accidentally split
DICTOGLOSS
some paint on
Chaplin’s trousers. Picasso
immediately offered to get some alcohol to
remove it but Chaplin said: ‘Please, don’t. Just
leave the paint where it is, and make sure you
also sign my trousers.’
DICTOGLOSS
• Choose text
• Read out text 3 times
• Learners reconstruct
contents of text
• Feedback
INPUT
Thank you