Orientation Day IUFMsCES Don Bosco

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Orientation Day IUFMs/CES Don Bosco St. Patricks
College March 2006
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Aims for the teaching of modern languages in
primary school

• To foster a positive attitude towards language
  learning and to promote self-confidence,
  self-esteem and enjoyment in learning a language
• To develop communicative competence, enabling the
  child to use the language in a variety of
  contexts
• To develop an awareness of the target language
  and its relationship with other languages
• To develop the childs awareness, appreciation
  and respect for other cultures particularly those
  associated with the target language
• NCCA Teacher Guidelines

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Objectives for the teaching of modern languages
in primary school

• The child should be enabled to
• Experience, enjoy, experiment and explore
  language
• Develop all language skills
• Develop an appreciation of how languages work
• Enhance his/hers language learning skills
• Appreciate and respect identity and cultural
  diversity

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Principles for a language programme

• The programme should be child-centred
• The topics covered should be relevant to the
  child
• The target language should be the preferred means
  of communication in the classroom

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Principles for a language programme

• The programme should encompass all styles of
  learning
• The programme should have an integrated approach
• The programme should be carefully planned

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Overview of the curriculum

• 3 Strands
• Communicative competence
• Language awareness
• Cultural awareness
• Strand Units
• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

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The phases of communication

• motivation through setting the
  scene
• Pre-communicative phase input of vocabulary
• practice
• role-playing
• Communicative phase communicative
  exercises
• social interaction
• analysing
• Post-Communicative phase identifying needs
• reinforcing language

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Approaches and methodologies

• Use of the target language
• incidental classroom language, language for
  carrying out activities, appropriate language
  conventions
• Developing listening skills listening for gist,
  meaning, sounds, enjoyment

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Approaches and methodologies

• Spoken language talk, role-plays, simulation,
  games, storytelling, poetry, rhyme and song
• Developing reading skills reading for pleasure
  and information, label classroom items,
  linguistically rich environment
• Developing writing skills practice, drafting
  and redrafting, use of ICT, pen-pal projects

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Planning for modern languages

• Programme planning content, functions, topics,
  diversification, cross-curricular integration
• Classroom organisation equipment, seating,
  language area, computers, resources
• Multi-class groups
• Special needs pupils
• Keeping records

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References

• Modern Languages in Primary Schools Teacher
  guidelines
• Pilot Project on Modern Languages in the Primary
  School Draft Curriculum Guidelines
• MLPSI Handbook
• Language Links