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