Chapters

Topic

Sub-topics

Tasks and assignments

Introduction

Introduction to First language acquisition

• First language acquisition and behaviourism

• Inadequacies of the behaviourist approach

• An innate language-learning capacity

• The grammatical development of children

• Telegraphic speech

• The development of inflections and function words

• The development of transformations

• Cognitive factors in first language acquisition

• Language and concepts

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Reflection: What is your impression on the topic of first language acquisition? Do you have any comments to share with your tutor?

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Approaches to language teaching

• A Summary of History of Language teaching

• Grammar-Translation Method

• The Reform

• Direct Method

• Audilingual Method

• Cognitive-Code learning: Communicative Approach

Task: Please complete the following comparative chart about some of the different methods mentioned in this chapter.

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The First Class

• Icebreakers and fillers

• The first class ( getting-to-know activities)

Watch Videos:

• First Class 1

• First Class 2

Instructions: Observe how it works in practice.

Reflection: Can you think of activities or ways of creating a good first impression about you and the course? Think about that for a moment. Then, turn the page for activities for first lessons.

Task: Design an activity for a first lesson taking into account the students level and the linguistic aims.

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Communicative Approach

• Main features

• Goals

• Role of a teacher

• Characteristic of the teaching/learning process

• Student-teacher interaction

• Techniques and materials

• Functions and exponents

Quiz 1: Recognizing Functions

Instructions: Match the functions to the exponents.

Task: Designing a role playing activity

Assignment 1: Communicative activities

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Lesson Planning: Presentation Stage

• Presentation of new material: The P-P-P Framework

• What learners need to know about a new item of language

• Other ways of presenting new language

• The Test-Teach- Test framework

• Engage- Study- Activate (ESA)

• Grammar analysis

Watch videos:

• Peer class 1 : Presenting Grammar: Simple past

Instructions: Observe the mock class and the follow-up discussion.

• Peer class 2: Presenting grammar: Much vs Many

Instructions: Observe the mock class and the follow-up discussion.

 Reflection:

Can you think of other ways of presenting a new grammar topic? Share your ideas with your tutor.

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Lesson Planning: Presenting Functions

The importance of context in the interpretation of meaning.

• Presenting functions

• Functions of conditional sentences

Watch Video:

• Presenting Functions: Conditionals- Type 1

Instructions: Observe the class

Quiz 2: Identify the functions

Instructions: Choose the best alternative

Quiz 3: Identify the functions

Instructions: Complete the gaps

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Presentation Stage: Concept questions

Elicitation techniques

What are concept questions?

Preparing to formulate concept questions

Assignment 2: Concept questions-

What concept questions will you ask your students to elicit the meaning (function) and usage (structure) from them? First, think of the function of the words underlined. Then, think of the concept questions you might ask.

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Lesson Planning: Practice stage

The importance of oral practice

Characteristic of the practice stage

• Mechanical drills

• Meaningful drills

• Communicative drills

Watch videos:

• Drill 1

• Drill 2

• Drill 3

Instructions: Observe the lessons. See how it works in practice. What types of drilling do you observe in these video clips.

Assignment 3: Drilling

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Lesson Planning: Production stage

The importance of the production stage

• The problems of the learners

• The role of the teacher

• Communicative production

• Group work

Watch video:

• Group work

Instructions: Observe the class- What activities can you identify in this video?

 Task: Activities for the production stage

 Choose any of the grammar topics discussed in the lesson plans in chapter 4, and create an activity for the production stage of that lesson plan.

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How to write a lesson plan

• What is involved in lesson plan

• Guidelines

• Why a lesson plan

• Plan your lesson

• Layout of a lesson plan

• Stages in a lesson plan

• Timing

• Aims/assumptions/ anticipated problems

• Interactive patterns

• Identifying and describing lesson aims

• Lesson plan samples

 Task: read the following aims and discuss with your tutor why you think they are not appropriate.

Assignment 5: Designing a lesson plan based on the following topics

 Assignment 5: Designing a lesson plan based on the following topics

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How to introduce new vocabulary and idioms

• How to introduce new vocabulary

• How to make vocabulary memorable

• Different techniques to introduce ore review vocabulary

Assignment 6: Teaching Vocabulary

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Class Observation

• What to observe

• Observations tasks

Watch Videos:

• Observation 1, 2 & 3

Assignments 7,8 and 9

Instructions: Observe the lessons and complete the observation tasks. Submit observation tasks to your tutor (100 marks)

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Teaching Skills: Speaking

• Introduction to the 4 skills

• Staging a speaking lesson

• The role of the teacher

• Integrating speaking to other skills

• Speaking lesson plans samples

Reflection: What makes a good speaking class?

What are some of the problems in getting the students to speak?

What do you think is the role of the teacher in a speaking class?

 Watch video:

• Integrated Skills

Assignment 10 : Observe the lesson.Submit observation task to your tutor (100 marks)

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Teaching Skills: Listening

Comprehension

• Aims of a listening task

• Steps in a listening lesson

• Types of listening tasks and activities

• Example of a listening lesson plan

Watch video:

• Listening skill

Assignment 11: Observe the lesson.Submit observation task to your tutor (100 marks)

Assignment 12: Listening Lesson Plan

Instructions: Write a lesson plan.Submit  to your tutor (100 marks)

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Teaching Skills: Reading Comprehension

• Aims of reading comprehension

• Types of reading texts and activities

• Reading comprehension lesson plan

Watch video:

• "Observation"

Assignment 13: Submit observation task to your tutor (100 marks)

Assignment 14: Reading Comprehension lesson plan. Submit  to your tutor (100 marks) 

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Teaching Skills: Writing

• Motivate your students to write

• Stages in a writing lesson

• Examples of writing tasks

• Paragraph Writing

Watch video:

• Teaching Writing

Assignment 15 : Write a lesson plan.Submit  to your tutor (100 marks)

 Task: In this task you have to think of pre-writing stages in your lesson. How would you present the topic, how and what language would you need to introduce or review? How would you motivate your students to write this piece?

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Classroom management

• Recognize the different roles of the teacher

• Work with different group dynamics

• Analyze behaviour problems

• Solve problematic situations in the classroom

• Make the most of materials and resources

• Create the best learning environment

• Task: Which of the strategies mentioned in the chapter have you already used with your students?  

• Which strategy are you sceptical on using? Why?

• Which strategy called your attention the most? Why?

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Correcting Student s mistakes

• Correction techniques

• Purpose of correction

• When to correct

• What to correct

Watch Video:

• Students mistakes

Assignment 16: Observe the video, detect and correct the students pronunciation mistakes.

Assignment 17: Correcting students written work. Submit to your tutor ( 100 marks)

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Evaluation and testing

• Evaluation and its purpose

• Testing

• Types of tests

• Approaches to test construction

• Authenticity of language tests

Task: What do you think each of the following questions is actually testing?

 Task: Testing techniques

Look at the following examples and match them with the 5 techniques above.

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Using Authentic material

• The importance of using authentic material in the classroom

• What s video for?

• Uses and techniques

• Doing the 4 skills with video

• Movie Patch Adams : Examples of activities

Assignment 18: Lesson plan using authentic material - ( 100 marks)

Final Lesson plan

Lesson plan

• Integrated skills

Assignment 19: Submit a final lesson plan - ( 100 marks)

Final Assignment

Project

Assignment 20: Submit 2 essays of at least 1,000 words. Choose two of the topics on the list.