From theory to practice: skills, projects and web resources

1. Lesson planning: basic principles
1. 1. Length 2. Development 3. Coherence 4. Pacing 5. Outcome
2. How to teach receptive skills: listening + reading
1. o Strategies:
  1.  Listening
    1. • recognizing key information
    2. • using discourse markers to identify the flow of discourse following rapid speech
  2.  Reading
    1. • reading for gist
    2. • guessing words from context
    3. • reading and making inferences
2. o Techniques:
  1.  Reading / listening for gist
  2.  Reading / listening for detail
  3.  Scanning
3. o Activities:
  1.  Before reading / listening
  2.  During reading / listening
  3.  After reading / listening
3. How to teach productive skills: speaking + writing
1. o Strategies:
  1.  Speaking
    1. • recognizing turn-taking signals
    2. • introducing a topic
    3. • using communication strategies
  2.  Writing
    1. • creating a topic sentence
    2. • distinguishing between main ideas/ supporting sentences
    3. • self- editing
2. o Techniques
  1. Language - Content - Speed - Attention - Incomprehensible vocabulary - Prediction - Background - information - Motivation - Purpose - Strategies
3. o Activities
  1.  Dialogues
  2.  Plays
  3.  Simulations
  4.  Role play
  5.  Discussion
  6.  Debate
4. Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary
1. o familiar approach
2. o convenient framework
3. o core component of language proficiency
5. Language assessment and language testing
1. o Language assessment
  1. formal assessment
    1. • In class
      1. o diagnostic
      2. o formative
      3. o summative
    2. • External
      1. o high-stakes
      2. o low stakes
    3. • Others
      1. o Norm
      2. o Criterion referenced
  2.  informal assessment
    1. • observation
    2. • self- assessment
2. o Language testing
  1.  reliability
  2.  validity:
    1. • external
    2. • internal
    3. criterion
    4. • content
    5. • construct
    6. • face
    7. • Impact
  3.  comparison and discrimination
  4.  practicality
  5. delivery
    1. pen and paper
    2. Oral
    3. computer-based

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