Language Language TeachingTeaching

• 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

ii. Practice with application - opportunity to practise it thoroughly - meaningful learning activities

iii. Production with application - need to produce - product is meaningful

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

• Vocabulary work

• Guided writing tasks

• Passages for dictation, spelling and punctuation skills

• Poems , dialogues etc. for memory work

• Drama, role-play , music

Specify objectives for the Specify objectives for the English Language Programme .English Language Programme .

1. Selection of content

Language items + Vocabulary

Materials

• Stories

• Poems

• Songs

• Dialogues

• Playlets

2. Selection of skillsSkills• listening• speaking• reading• writing• sound system• grammar

• Selection of teaching strategies ( Play- way methods + Topic or thematic approaches +

Communication skills approaches )

Activities

• Role-play

• Music

• Dialogues

• Story-telling

• Acting

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

• Content

a. Simple sentence structures and vocabulary used in everyday situation.

b. Language forms used in everyday communications – questions, requests, statements

c. Language items and vocabulary related to a topic or theme

• Skills

a. 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

• 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.

What is Supplementary Learning What is Supplementary Learning Programme?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

Aims of the Supplementary Learning ProgrammeAims 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

Types of Supplementary Activities for English.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

Types of Supplementary Activities for English.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

Types of Supplementary Activities for English.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

7. Integrated Language Skills 7. Integrated Language Skills Activities.Activities.

A teacher must identify the kind of integrated language activities to be used in class

and the purpose of such integration

Study the :-1. Advantages of integrating language

skills2. Advantages of practising specific

language skills separately

Integrated language activities that you carry out in your Integrated language activities that you carry out in your classroom.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