The most important aspects

related to the acquisition of a

FL

1. Oral communication

It includes listening and speaking.

ListeningIt is important because…

- Listening provides a comprehensible

input

- It is essential for language

processing

- It’s needed in real life

- It allows students to distinguish

sounds, stress and intonation

patterns.

How can we introduce it in the

classroom?

-Using songs and rhymes

-Through storytelling

-Using listening clips

Speaking

Speaking is a complex cognitive process where listening also

plays an important role.

The student’s early production of language, whether this has

been naturally acquired or formally instructed, needs

accuracy.

Though oral language should be integrate with listening,

some further practice is necessary to improve production.

Our aim as teachers is to design procedures to involve

students in this oral practice.

Oral communication activities

2. Reading

Reading in the classroo may serve as a reinforcement of the oral

input. This helps the recognition of the symbol-sound relationships

within a given semantic context.

Reading should be encouraged in and out the class. For that, it’s

necessary a selection of appropiates texts and activities according

to the students’ interests.

3. Writing

Not only reinforces the grammatical structures but

also help learners to learn.

It can be the natural outlet and consolidation for

other skills

It is a useful communication channel

Stages:

-Controlled Writing

-Guided Writing

- Free Writing

Writing activities

Controlled activities:

At the word level we deal with

vocabulary, spelling and

pronunciation. Some activities

are:

-Forming words with jumbled

letters

-Game “Hangman”

-Crosswords.

Controlled activities:At sentence and texts level:

-Transformation: singular to

plural, present to past…

-Punctuating a text

-Putting words in the correct

position in a sentence.

-Jumbled words to form

coherent sentences.

Writing activities

Guided activities:It consists of giving students

some guidelines in order to

orientate them to writing.

Paragraph 1:

What is the name of you

school?

How long have you been

here?

Paragraph 2:

What is the building like?

It is new or old?

Free activities:

-Note taking

-Writing summaries

-Writing essays

-Letter writing

-Writing reports

Resources to teach a FL.

Songs

Games

Realia

Flashcards

Technical resources

Songs are designed to belearned and repeated by thewhole class together. They are also intended to be sung byyoung children who are at thesame time performing theactions described by the wordsof the song.

Activities with songs:

-Answering questions about the text of

a song.

-Working with opposites

-Reordering the words of a song

-Finding words that rhyme

The use of games help to

create context in which the

participants find

themselves in the position

of making meaningful and

purposeful use of

language

Some Games are:

-Bingo

-Word chain

-Guess the word

-Picture dictation and

drawing

-Happy families

Realia

Real and simple objects can be used for

teaching new vocabylaro or doing many

different activities.

Flashcards

Can be stuck on the classroom walls to

create an atmosphere around the topic we

are working around.

-Show the flashcards

-Substitution dialogues

-Classify the pictures

-Picture dictionary

We can also use technical

resources that allow teachers

to create motivating activities

or to find many different

resources and activities

through the internet.