Early Foreign Language Early Foreign Language Learning.Learning.

0. IntroductionMª del Carmen Alario TriguerosMª del Carmen Alario Trigueros

Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la LiteraturaDepartamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura

E.U. de Educación de Palencia. Universidad de Valladolid.E.U. de Educación de Palencia. Universidad de Valladolid.

www.edupa.uva.eswww.edupa.uva.es

Education means Education means providing tools to providing tools to develop what our develop what our students bring within students bring within a given society.a given society.

•Act & value, assume Act & value, assume new challengesnew challenges

•Think, negociate Think, negociate and shareand share

•RespondRespond

•Observe the world Observe the world and life: explain it and life: explain it with wordwith word

Language, Culture & Life.Language, Culture & Life. Communication y representationCommunication y representation

Representative Function

Communicative Function

LANGUAGE & DEVELOPMENT: FUNCTIONSLANGUAGE & DEVELOPMENT: FUNCTIONS

•Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in our mind.our mind.

Regulatory Function

Informational Function

•Language regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic DLanguage regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic D

•Language helps us to share information.Language helps us to share information.

•Language help us to participate in a coommon taskLanguage help us to participate in a coommon task

Symbolic Function

SKILL, COMPETENCES & CAPACITIESSKILL, COMPETENCES & CAPACITIES

• Listening and UnderstandingListening and Understanding(Competences: chunk, select, and associate meaning to the oral steam)

• Responding and SpeakingResponding and Speaking(Competences: Using social and communicative skills in the interaction.

Pourposeful usage of gaze, non.verbal language, paralanguage and sentences)

• Oral InteractionOral Interaction ( Competences: identify their role, using social rules to start, agree, acept

participation, reconognize and adapt their behaviour to the script.)

• Reading and Reading InteractionReading and Reading Interaction(communication: identify the intention, generate a previous idea –identify ,

localize, select and verify information)

• Writing and Written InteractionWriting and Written Interaction(expressing ideas, feelings, events, wishes in and organized way. It requires

capacities: – Planning, selecting, organizing and following a structure)

Vygostky’sVygostky’s theory of Languagetheory of Language

• InnerInner speechspeech

• VerbalVerbal

thoughtthought• PublicPublic speechspeech

• PrivatePrivate speechspeech

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Order the Order the terms terms according to according to Vygostk’s Vygostk’s theory of theory of LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT. THOUGHT.

PublicPublic speechspeech

PrivatePrivate speechspeech

InnerInner speechspeech

VerbalVerbal thoughtthought

Review your Review your achievements achievements

Can you answer using this thinking Can you answer using this thinking organizer, the question we asked organizer, the question we asked ourselves the previous day? ourselves the previous day?

•How can I (adult/ carateker) How can I (adult/ carateker) help the development of help the development of children’s competences and children’s competences and capacities through capacities through communication/ oral communication/ oral interaction? interaction?

Now, decide your targetsNow, decide your targets