170713 WW BestWaysToSupportIntermediateStudents

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Best ways to supportintermediate students

Robin Walker

Oxford University Press

Global webinars

17th July 2013



Best ways to support

intermediate students

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Q1 Where are you teaching?

a) in the UK.

b) in a country where English is an official language.c) in a country where English is regularly used for

study and business but is NOT an official

language.

d) in a country where English is mainly a school

subject, with few opportunities to use it outside

the classroom.






Q2 Who do you teach?

a) (almost) entirely intermediate-level students.

b) mostly intermediate-level students.

c) “the works” – beginner to advanced.






Q3 How long have you been teaching?

a) less than 5 years.

b) 5–10 years.

c) 10–15 years.

d) more than 15 years.






1. Mapping the plateau






How do our learnersperceive the

plateau?




a) I’ve seen this before

b) I need more words

c) I’m loosing controld) I’m making more mistakes than ever

e) I can get by but …

f) I’m afraid of flying

g) I’m lost without you










Re-present old grammar

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2. Grammar on the plateau






Extend known structures

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Grammar on the

plateau







CLK “… lots of new vocabulary in known topic areas”

3. Vocabulary on the plateau

• Extend vocabulary

• Teach high frequency words

+ verb phrases

• Teach lexical chunks• Teach vocabulary and

pronunciation together






Extend vocabulary


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High frequency words and verb phrases







Lexical chunks


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Pronunciation on

the plateau

4. Pronunciation on the plateau






Pronunciation for getting off the plateau


• Key consonants

• Clusters

• Word boundaries

• Linking

• Sentence stress & rhythm

• Vowel length

• Word stress






Sound level

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Sentence

level


Intermediate 5B







Sentence level


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5. Learner independence

They need to improve

independent learning

skills and not onlyEnglish language skills

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… successful learners ...

make a combination of formal

self-instruction with an

attempt to immersethemselves in a

communicative setting.

Qing Xu







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Learner

independenceon the plateau







STUDY LINK





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Recording

progress

off theplateau






6. Psychology for the plateau

Measuring progress

Perhaps what defines theplateau feeling can’t be

measured in language skills

proficiency or years but in lack

of progress

As they progress it

becomes much harder for

them to notice real

improvements

Maybe the problem ishow stds are measuring

their progress







Goal setting

1+6

2

3

4+5







Believing



Best ways to supportintermediate students

Robin Walker

Oxford University Press

Global webinars

July 17th, 2013



Thank you!

“Best Ways to Support Intermediate Students”

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