Delivering skills

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Delivering skills

• South Asian Languages

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Communicative Premise

• Possibility of an open response
• Negotiation of meaning

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Lesson PlanTemplate

• Topic
• Goals
• Linguistic
• Communicative tasks
• Learning strategies
• Structure
• Preparation
• Presentation
• Evaluation

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Examplar Greetings

• Pre-activity Background
• Video presentation
• Activity Making observations
• Post-activity Application

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Pre-activity

• Background activation
• Situating the context

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Activity

• Making observations
• Kinds of information conveyed
• Linguistic realizations
• Role relations
• Kinship terms
• Forms of address

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Activity contd.

• Question Are heritage/non-heritage speakers
  going to observe all the information there?
• Pair-work, group discussion
• If not, then how can we make them observe the
  various fictive kinship terms, forms of address,
  and the linguistic expression of greetings?

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Post-activity

• Applying it to our own teaching/learning
  experience
• Personal narratives
• Intercultural comparisons

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Skills activity

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing
• Grammar

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Skills ActivityReading

• Stages
• Pre-reading
• Identify main elements
• Identify details

• Use of text meaning
• Preview text, establish a purpose, predict
  meaning
• Identify main ideas, characters, settings, and
  events
• Read intensively and connect main concepts to
  details

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Reading 2

• Organize/revise main ideas/details
• React to text/explore intertextuality

• Revise main ideas and supporting details
• Students give opinions and reactions to text and
  relate other texts to it

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Grammar PACE

• Focus on form
• P presentation of meaningful language
• A attention
• C co-construct grammatical explanation
• E extension activity

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WritingProject orientedhttp//www.linguistics.u
iuc.edu/hindi/resources/res_uiuc.html

• Learner-focused, free options
• Thematic
• Awareness of socio-cultural, historical, and
  political awareness
• Incremental
• Guided, two steps
• Grammaticality
• Coherence/Cohesion

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Conclusions

• Focus on DISCOVERING culture
• Language is the instrument/tool/medium of that
  DISCOVERY
• Learner is ACTIVE
• Teachers role Keeping learner ACTIVE