teaching across proiciency levels

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BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCE

False beginner: 100 of words in the TL. Relativity between what beginners and advanced learners are.

defining proficiency levels:

FSI/ ACTFL ( proficiency guidelines ) Eleven levels; created to expand 4 skills. To guide test-maker; standard for assessment. Beginners for novices.

Teaching beginning levels:

Challenging but rewarding. Very little language, limit to get new words and structures. A mistaken conception of native language in EFL classes. Do not overwhelm. 10 factors to formulate an approach to teaching beginners and design activities.

1. Students' cognitive learning processes: Repetition few words, do not frustrate if any change occurs. Focusing on porpuses instead of forms.Make them feel immerse.

2. The role of the teacher: Classes centered in the teacher. Not only; students and pair work (group work) Let them feel as the center of attention. Foreign classes: teacher's control, native language; consensus. Activities, questions, freedom in the class.

3. Teacher talk: Important input; slow and clear speech, easy vocabulary. Using the target language, more than the native.

4. The authenticity of language: Language must be simple and authentic, simple phrases.

5. Fluency and accuracy. Based on what is being learned. Participate without fear of being wrong. Correct a little bit grammar to avoid the thinking of no correction is perfection. Phonetics.

6. Student creativity: At the beginning level they are limited by vocabulary, but later they will be able to comprehend and produce natural language.

7. Techniques: Short and simple, repetition, group activities structured and defined with specified objectives.

8. Listening and speaking goals: Meaningful, limited by grammar and vocabulary, but not by communicative functions.

9. Reading and writing goals: