Language Teaching

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Language Teaching
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• 1. What are the approaches in learning and
  teaching of a new language ?
• i. Presentation with application
• - provide a meaningful context
• - involvement of learners
• - presentation related to function
• - awareness of why and how

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• ii. Practice with application
• - opportunity to practise it thoroughly
• - meaningful learning activities
• iii. Production with application
• - need to produce
• - product is meaningful

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2. What are the language content and skills areas
in an English language programme ?

• English Language Programme
• New language items and structures
• Specific listening- comprehension targets
• Intensive reading of passage in the textbook and
  specified reading skill
• Oral English programme (Content for spoken
  English)
• Supplementary learning activities

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• Vocabulary work
• Guided writing tasks
• Passages for dictation, spelling and punctuation
  skills
• Poems , dialogues etc. for memory work
• Drama, role-play , music

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Specify objectives for the English Language
Programme .
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• 1. Selection of content
• Language items Vocabulary
• Materials
• Stories
• Poems
• Songs
• Dialogues
• Playlets

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• Selection of skills
• Skills
• listening
• speaking
• reading
• writing
• sound system
• grammar

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• Selection of teaching strategies
• ( Play- way methods Topic or thematic
  approaches Communication skills approaches )
• Activities
• Role-play
• Music
• Dialogues
• Story-telling
• Acting

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4. Guide-lines for selection of Content, Skills
and Strategies

• Content
• Simple sentence structures and vocabulary used in
  everyday situation.
• Language forms used in everyday communications
  questions, requests, statements
• Language items and vocabulary related to a topic
  or theme

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• Skills
• At initial stage , only listening and speaking
  skills are taught. (serious work)
• Reading and writing are introduced later
• b. Simple sub-skills will be selected for
  beginning stages
• c. Selected skills may be taught separately on
  in activities where skills integrated

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• Strategies
• a. Methods will be activity centred and to be
  related to the pupils interest and enjoyment
• b. A topic or thematic approach will give
  interest and focus to the learning experience
• c. Skills in language will be related to language
  functions in communications.

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What is Supplementary Learning Programme?

• Learning activities that a teacher can freely
  innovate
• Activities that devise imaginative and purposeful
  learning
• Activities that make full use of the learning time

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Aims of the Supplementary Learning Programme

• To provide variety of English language learning
  activities which are not specifically prescribed
  in the syllabus and textbook but which suit the
  needs and interest of the learners
• To encourage pupils to work at a level and with
  materials which they find both purposeful and
  challenging
• To organize supplementary activities in such a
  manner that maximum use is made of the time
  available for learning throughout the school term
  and year

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Types of Supplementary Activities for English.

• Short activities ( 10-15 minutes)
• Focus on specific skills / integration of skills
• May be self-instructional / end of a lesson
• Language games
• Songs
• Rhymes, poems, riddles
• Vocabulary cards
• Listen and do activities
• Listen and read

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Types of Supplementary Activities for English.

• Longer activities ( 30- 40 minutes)
• Done in class or part of extracurricular
  programme
• Can be assigned as homework
• Reading cards (self instructional)
• Supplementary readers
• Read and do/ make/ write/ draw
• Listen and read/write
• Games/Songs/Poems
• Drama, role-play
• Debates, discussions, Young speakers

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Types of Supplementary Activities for English.

• Project / Thematic work ( 3-4 weeks or 1 term)
• Work/activities extended for a long period of
  time
• Project work
• School/Class visits, outing
• Exhibitions for library week
• English Language weeks/ month
• English Language magazine
• Interclass/ house competitions
• School plays/ English concerts
• Project books

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7. Integrated Language Skills Activities.

• A teacher must identify the kind of integrated
  language activities to be used in class and the
  purpose of such integration
• Study the -
• Advantages of integrating language skills
• Advantages of practising specific language skills
  separately

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Integrated language activities that you carry out
in your classroom.

• Making a weather chart
• Talking and writing about a flowering plant
• Finding out (orally) about a wanted person and
  write a description
• Making a model
• A class mini survey