ESSAY 22: VARIATIONS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN THE ORGANISATION OF THE ENGLISH CLASS

ESSAY 22: VARIATIONS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN THE ORGANISATION OF THE ENGLISH CLASS

1. ABSTRACT

   • Classroom management skills
     • Fostering Com. Comp.
     • Creating & maintaining motivation
     • Setting students and teacher's roles

2. INTRODUCTION

   • Organization and management of the classroom has a great impact
   • Importance of Communicative Approach
   • Organization & management will vary depending the methodology

3. COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

   • Hymes and Halliday
   • Role of the teacher
     • Facilitate communication process
     • Organizer of resources & guider
   • Plenty of communicative activities
   • 4 skills
     • Oral before written skills
   • Aim
     • Teaching to communicate in a FL
       • Topics, notions and functions, not only linguistic structures
   • Materials & Resources favour development and acquisition of comm. fuctions
   • Methodological principles
     • 1- Language is an instrument of communication
     • 2- Constructivism
     • 3- Learner-centered curriculum
     • 4- Contextualization
     • 5- Comprehensive input
     • 6- Silent period
     • 7- Errors
     • 8- Pleasant classroom atmosphere
     • 9- Oral skills precede written ones
     • 10- Gradual complexity and systematic recycling of contents
     • 11- Teach English through English

4. GROUPING STUDENTS

   • Types
     • 1- Individual work
     • 2- Lockstep grouping
     • 3- Pair-work
     • 4- Group work
   • Group size

5. SPACE AND TIME DISTRIBUTION