February Zoom: Teaching languages at low levels
Learn how you can teach languages better to beginner and elementary learners.
February 9th (2pm London): Issues for Beginners and the syllabus
A little bit of housekeeping
Learning a new language: intro and outline
FREE PREVIEWBeliefs about learning and teaching
Difficulties for low level students and their teachers
FREE PREVIEWDifficulties 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
February 16th (2pm London): Choosing 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
February 23rd (2pm London): 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
March 2nd (2pm London): Working with Coursebooks and Speaking
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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