Describing learning and teaching

Acquisition and learning
1. Comprehensible input
  1. Language understood by the student
2. The principal function of learned language:
  1. Monitor
Grammar translation
1. Presenting students with:
  1. Grammar rules
  2. Word lists
  3. Translation exercices
2. It teaches people about language, but not about how to communicate
Audio-lingualism
1. It suggests:
  1. Describe the grammatical patterns
  2. Students repeat and learn the patterns
PPP (Presentation, Practice, and Production)
1. Teachers:
  1. Explain and demonstrate the meaning and form of a new language
2. Teacher presents:
  1. Context
  2. The situation for the language
3. This procedure can be used for:
  1. Teaching students functions
    1. Invite people
    2. Teaching vocabulary
ESA lesson sequences
1. Straight arrows
  1. Teaching sequence that takes students in a straight line
  2. May work with lower levels
  3. Not appropriate for advanced levels
2. Boomerang
  1. Teachers answer the needs of students
  2. Language is taught when they need it
  3. Teachers need to find good teaching material based on the problems of the students
3. Patchwork
  1. For intermediate and advanced levels
  2. Provide an appealing balance between study and activation; and language and topic
Elements for successful language learning
1. Suggests that most teaching sequences need to have certain elements:
  1. Engage
    1. Things are learnt better if our minds and hearts are involved
    2. Activities that engage students
      1. Games
      2. Music
      3. Discussions
      4. Stimulating pictures
  2. Study
    1. Focus on the construction of something
  3. Activate
    1. Describes exercises and activities designed to get students using language freely
    2. Personalisation
      1. Students used language they've studied to:
        Talk about themselves
        Make their original dialogues

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