Lexical Lab: Training for language teachers

Links to zoom meetings

Some housekeeping ... and choosing your coursebook

Beliefs about learning and teaching

Difficulties for low level students and their teachers

Difficulties for low level students

Teaching the alphabet and choices

Choices in teaching and learning

Supporting learning or not. Traditional v Spiral syllabus

Class management and adapting material

Task and points for discussion

Working from dialogues: intro and outline

Russian two ways: grammar to conversation or conversation with grammar

Dialogue building in action

Integrating dialogue building with a coursebook

Messaging: from dialogues to chunking and individualised practice

Task and points for discussion

Nov 24th 2pm: Vocabulary and presenting Language

Words are more important than grammar: intro and outline

How vocabulary choices and examples can better enable communication.

What do I do with mixed levels and what if I can't translate?

Presenting vocabulary up front

Collocation and grammaticalised lexis

Putting it all together: presenting words with grammar

Task and points for discussion

Dec 1st 2pm: Pronunciation and Listening

Feel my pain: intro and outline

Getting students to repeat and making sounds visible

Phonics and reading

Helping students hear outside a listening lesson

Focus on hearing in the listening lesson

Task and points for discussion

Dec 8th 2pm: Speaking and giving voice to individuals

Elementary is not beginner: intro and outline

Making the most of grammar exercises

Making the most of a vocabulary exercise

Giving the students a voice: individualised portfolios

Giving students a voice; Single word answers to whole class. one-to-one

Whole class one-to-one in action: reformulating and noticing

Giving students a voice: other vocabulary choices

Task and points for discussion

Thanks and further study

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