Task Based Learning What is it? - Pearson · Talk about routines Commonality t 2 nd e. Structuring...
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Rob Dean
Many Years ago, in a classroom far, far away…
Famous textbook beginnings
This is a pen.
My tailor is rich.
Do you have your best friend? What do you do with him / her after the lesson?
Agenda The nature of communication
The problems with ‘speaking’ lessons
Structuring a speaking lesson:
- Topics
- Language
- Resources
The connection with 21st Century Skills
Language Practice vs. Communication
• Outcome
• Uses a variety of language
• Process-based
• Meaningful
• Open ended
• Correct answers
• Practices specific language
• Product-based
• Manipulative
• Predictable
What does communication involve?
1. A topic
2. A purpose
3. Paralinguistics
4. Listening
5. Responding
6. Discourse Skills
1. Lexis
2. Structure
3. Phonology
Linguistic Communicative
Spoken Discourse Sub-skills
• Back-channelling
• Repair
• Hesitation devices
• Hedging language
• Showing interest
• Holding the floor
• Interrupting
• Agreeing / Disagreeing
• Carrying on…
Speaking Lessons – The soft option?
1. How long does it take to prepare?
2. How easy is it to prepare?
3. Do students participate?
4. How do you think of topics?
5. How do you structure these classes?
6. What is the learning outcome?
Structuring Communication 1. Topics
Structuring Communication
Creativity Invent a Machine
1. Topics
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Commonality Talk about routines S
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Negotiation Plan a journey S
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Share Opinions Conduct a survey S
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Recommending Describe a place S
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Personalisation
Communicative Outcome
Structuring Communication 2. Content
Structuring Communication
Recommending Describe a place
2. Content
Where’s a great place to visit in Switzerland that tourists rarely
see?
Content Ideas
Language Input
Preparation Time
What do you think of the ideas in the video for spending time in
Hong Kong?
Speak Out 2nd Edition
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A balanced syllabus: - Skills - Systems
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Step-by-Step From Reception to Production From Closed to Open
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Structuring Communication 3. Language
Recommending Describe a place
Content Ideas
Language Input
Preparation Time
Structuring Communication 3. Language
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Step-by-Step Language Input – Useful Phrases
Scaffolding
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Scaffolding
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SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary
• Information sharing in groups and
pairs
• Peer involvement and support
• Project work: Applying imagination to create communicative results
• Applying strategies to learning and using language to fulfil needs
The 4 Cs of 21st Century Learning
A Communicative Classroom…
Communication and Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Makes learning more engaging, effective – and
fun
Reflects real world
behaviour
Prepares students for future academic, work and
social needs
21st Century skills are
transferrable to disciplines other
than English
I’m an English Teacher.
Why 21st Century Skills?
Structuring Communication 3. Discourse
Spoken Discourse Sub-skills
• Back-channelling
• Repair
• Hesitation devices
• Hedging language
• Showing interest
• Holding the floor
• Interrupting
• Agreeing / Disagreeing
• Carrying on…
Old coursebooks don’t always reflect what people
really say
More difficult than teaching grammar:
different cultures have different conventions
(eg degrees of directness)
Gives students pieces of REAL
English
Focus on REAL communicative
outcomes
Teaching features of Discourse
Good things and bad things…
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Distinguishing
Noticing
Practice SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate
Preparation
Production
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate
Exposure to REAL English
How many accents?
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary
Exposure to REAL English
How many accents?
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary
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Putting it all together
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
What makes you happy?
Rank the list below 1= most important 11= least important
With a partner, see how much you have in common. Justify your choices.
SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate
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MEAURING COMMUNICATION
Can identify very common food and drink
on a menu
A1
Can understand standard speech
on familiar matters, with
some repetition or reformulation
A2
Can collate information from several written
sources and summarise the
ideas orally
B1
Can ask and answer
questions about what they do at
work and in their free
time
A2
The CEFR… • Some of the
bands are VERY wide.
• Exactly WHERE in the B1 band am I?
Introducing the Global
Scale of English
The Global
Scale of
English is a
global,
granular scale
for measuring
proficiency in
English.
A1 26
A2 38
B1 56
A2 35
Can identify common food and drink on a menu Can understand standard speech on familiar matters, with some repetition or reformulation Can collate information from several written sources and summarise the ideas orally Can ask and answer questions about what they do at work and in their free time
The syllabuses
• Hundreds more ‘can do’
statements to teach with
compared to CEFR.
• ‘Can do’ statements
rated by thousands of
teachers worldwide.
• Syllabus underpins
pedagogy of course
material INCLUDING
SPEAKOUT.
• A motivational tool as
learners see movement /
progress more clearly
And Finally…
Communication Collaboration
Critical Thinking Creativity:
21st Century Skills in
Action…
Thank You Download the materials from www.pearson.ch