Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Links to zoom meetings

    • Some housekeeping

    • Preparation for the first lesson
  • 2

    Understanding the problems of teaching & studying a language at low levels

    • 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
  • 3

    How can I help students engage in real communication if they don't know grammar?

    • 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
  • 4

    What words should I teach and how should I teach them?

    • 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
  • 5

    They can't hear, they can't say: pron 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
  • 6

    Speaking and being yourself

    • 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
  • 7

    Further reading, links and feedback

    • Thanks and further study

    • Feedback

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You get 6 hours of face to face meetings on zoom where your tutor that explains the theory and clear principles of learning which inform our highly practical ideas for all classes and settings.

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