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UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHIRIQUIFACULTY OF HUMANITIES
ENGLISH SCHOOLBACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH
“GUIDED INTERACTION STRATEGY”
COURSE: STRATEGIES IN ESL
FACILITATOR:
OLDA CANO
BELONGS TO:EMMANUELLE JEGO DE VIQUEZYEISIE SHAYEGAN FERNANDEZ
MAY 2013
IntroductionTeaching English is a challenge for teachers. Teachers need to improve the proficiency of their students in the two dimensions of the use of language such as social interactions and academic skills.
Not only they have to work hard and motivate their students, but also they have to look for the right strategies for English learners. To teach English, professors need to use different strategies to create an environment, and activities that fit with students’ needs and knowledge.
In the following work, we will explain one of the useful six key strategies which is “Guided Interaction” and also macro activities which are questioning activities, and problem-solving activities. In addition, the work contains templates of the activities which are related to the strategy.
Guided interaction is a strategy that helps teachers developing communicative and cooperative interactions with and between learners to make them improve and develop their social and academic use of language.
Thesis statement
The challenge of the teachers is: To create
good communicatio
n between and/ with students
To encourage and motivate
their learners
To address the individual needs of
students BICS and CALP
Teachers’ challenge
Guided interaction is a strategy that teachers use to improve the five qualitative aspect of the students’ language such as:
Accuracy
Fluency
Interaction
coherence
Guided interaction
critical thinking
skills
communicative
competence
through social
interaction
activities.
Main Objective
These activities are based to develop interpersonal intelligence.
The main objective of this strategy is to develop:
This strategy focus on:
Focus
communicative or collaborative activities that make students cooperate with each other to improve their proficiency.
Multiple opportunities for peer-to-peer interactions as students learn content & develop their
use of the 4 skills
Clarify expectations, outcomes, & procedures related to tasks for flexible group activities.
Allow for primary language interactions to clarify concepts.
Content Knowledge
Structure multiple opportunities for peers or group interactions to increase the 4 skills
Support of language interactions with collaborative activities
Academic Language
It’s a good way to start a class and
motivate beginners or intermediate
students to interact socially
This activity focuses on questioning partner and
responding to him adequately.
Teachers use this activity in order to
improve the speaking and
listening skills of the students.
Partner Interviews
Tea Party
Social activity mostly used as a pre-reading
strategy.
They can be focused on a grammar point or they can be focused on content area.
It is a speaking, listening and pronunciation exercise
interviewers need to speak clearly and interviewees need to listen carefully in order to ask and answer questions correctly.
Class survey
1. Sharing information, 2. listening, 3. asking questions4. summarizing ideas5. talking quietly.
1. Process information2. Communicate3. develop thinking4. review of material5. Check prior knowledge.
The skills used for this activity are
This activity is to:
Numbered Head Together
Subject/Content Question/Problem Subject/Content Question/Problem
Mathematics How many equations can you generate? (e.g. x + 7x+ 12 = 0)
Health List as many complex carbohydrates as you can.
Literature Name as many books as you can written by women.
American History How many American Presidents can you name?
Physiology Name as many bones as you can that are in the arms and legs.
Music How many classical composers can you identify?
Drug Education Name as many illegal drugs as you can
Business Education If you were to start a business, what are some decisions you would have to make?
Staff Development What are some characteristics for effective staff development programs?
Think, Pair, Share is a structure first developed by Professor Frank Lyman in 1981
adopted in the field of co-operative learning.
It is a simple strategy, effective for every level of learning.
Students have to Process information, communicate and, develop thinking attitude.
Think Pair Share
Steps
• Teacher poses a question• Students think of a response• Students discuss their
responses with a partner• Students share their response
to the class
To allow members to give each other the support, help,
encouragement, and assistance they need to
succeed academically.
Groups can be teacher-selected,
random or student-selected.
Each group member has a specific role to play in a group, such as monitor, recorder,
summarizer, etc.
The role of the learner is
to learn teamwork
skills.
Benefits: Increase the amount of
student participation
Poster ProjectPoster projects are long term activities. Consist of heterogeneous learning groups with stable membership.
Poster Projects
Poster Projects
• This activity is used to make students interact with each other. They have to improve listening and speaking skills.
• For intermediate or high level, teacher can also make a four corner debates to improve the academic skills and make students analyze, give their opinions, and criticize.
Four corners
Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script
form.
Readers read from a "script" and reading
parts are divided among the readers.
No memorization, costumes, blocking, or
special lighting is needed
Readers’ theater
• This is a great ESL classroom activity • Works particularly well with classes that are normally
a little shy and reserved
Readers Theater helps
to…..
•increase comprehension.•integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening
in an authentic context.•engage students.•increase reading motivation.•create confidence and improve the self-image of
students.•provide a real purpose for reading.•provide opportunities for cooperative learning.
Perspective line up
Macro-categories
Questioning Activities
• Interviews• Surveys • Questionnaires
Problem solving
• Know why team work is essential in team building.
• Understand that good communication skills are essential in problem solving
• Demonstrate effective communication, team building and problem solving skills in a practical situation.
Problem Solving Activities
• Planning activities
• Survival games
Guided interaction strategy gives lots opportunities to work in pairs or groups to communicate to each other, share information, think together, to explore ways to resolve problem.
The four skills are developed in this strategy. Some of the activities will improve basic skills and others which are more complete and complex will improve academic skills.
Guided interaction principally uses the interpersonal intelligence and defines good activities for cooperation, communicative or collaborative approaches.
However, teachers have to analyze the students’ needs to be able to use the best activity in function of their skills, abilities and motivation.
Conclusion