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Get your L’s at ELS
Content Based Language TeachingCarol Potter
Advanced Skills Lecturer
TAFESA English Language Services
Why?• Pathways to
employment and social integration
• Student interest
• Appropriate for new client groups
HistoryPilot projects
• Bilingual tutor and small group (2001)
• Class with Interpreter and ESL teacher (2002)
Class profile• Bilingual groups of learners• 2 hours a week for 10
weeks• Close involvement of
Transport SA
Now
• 10 (or 20) x 2 hour sessions
• Regular optional module• Taught at every certificate
level (1-3)• Multilingual classes with
ESL teacher• No interpreter • Less involvement from
Transport SA• Teacher support for
testing process
Methodology• Speaking, listening, reading and
computing• Seating in first language clusters• Emphasis on visual aids:
– illustrated books– slides/transparencies– small and large flash cards– realia – diagrams
• Interactive learning:– Small group– Whole class
• Question/Answer, mime and matching activities
Teaching/Learning materials• Teacher-produced
materials– worksheets– booklets– cards– photgraphs– revision quizzes– intersections
The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack• 5 illustrated books
– covers content of SA Driver’s Handbook
– simple English
– thematically arranged
– sequential build up of Give Way skills and road signs books
– Multiple Choice Question test and Give Way test in each book(with answers)
The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack
• Give Way cards
– Accompanying A3-sized intersections
– Sequentially arranged
– Answers on the back
The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack
• Multiple Choice Question Cards
– Sequentially arranged
– Answers on the back
The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack
• Visual Images– Over 200 coloured
images (on CD Rom)
– Follow the sequence of the text in each book
Outcomes • Student relationships• Confidence levels• Commitment
– Drop out rate– Absences - Catch ups
• Punctuality• Homework• Success rates• English development
Advantages of Content-based learning
Language used for real-life purposes– Motivated learners– Collaborative, task-
based learning– Subconscious
language acquisition– Settlement