Teaching languages at low levels
Learn how you can teach languages better to beginner and elementary learners.
Some housekeeping
Learning a new language: intro and outline (5mins)
FREE PREVIEWBeliefs about learning and teaching (10 mins)
Teaching and learning survey (10 mins)
Difficulties for low level students (40 mins)
FREE PREVIEWTeaching the alphabet and choices (20 mins)
Choices in teaching and learning (15 mins)
Supporting learning or not. Traditional v Spiral syllabus (30 mins)
Class management and adapting material (15 mins)
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
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
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
Feedback
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