Core Elements in Language Learning

• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills

Listening 45%

Speaking 30%

Reading 16%

Writing 9%

Core communication skills

Listening

What makes listening difficult?

1. Sentence stress, rhythm and speed

2. Weak forms and contractions

3. Catenation

4. Discriminating between similar forms

5. Ellipsis

6. Recognising and interpreting intonation

7. Recognising redundancy

snotinuff

In other words…

Core communication skills

Speaking

The Five Principles1. Little and often

2. Reminiscence effect

3. Personalisation

4. Accuracy and fluency

5. Contiguity of error and correction

Reading Elementary Level

Reading - text types

• addresses• restaurant ads• emails• letters from friends• accommodation

adverts• simple formal letters

• newspaper articles• tourist brochures• entertainment

adverts • airport signs• job adverts • postcards

Writing – task types

• hotel registration forms

• a website profile• emails• text messages• stories

• letters to friends• descriptions of

places • simple formal letters• postcards

Writing Elementary Level

Core Elements in Language Learning

• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills

Core Language

Vocabulary

Top 1000 words Top 2000 words Neither

person complain modern

expensive drink ear

cost relax just

bathroom quietly became

business alone impressed

Top 1000 words Top 2000 words Neither

person (60)

just (66)

became (134)

cost (727)

modern (973)

drink (1472)

complain (1544)

business (1562)

expensive (1570)

alone (1720)

quietly (3157)

relax (3674)

ear (3845)

bathroom (4522)

impressed (6266)

Figures from the Cambridge International Corpus

84.3

82.3

75.6

73.5

% of conversation

% words in fiction

% words in newspapers

% words in academic texts

Learning Vocabulary in Another Language – I.S.P Nation (2001)

Top 1000 words account for:

VocabularyLexical input in every lesson:• Lexical fields (bus, car, train, etc.)• Collocations (go swimming, play tennis,etc.)• Sentence stems (Would you like …?etc.)• Fixed and semi-fixed phrases (See you soon,

etc.)• Consolidation through interactive language

summaries• Vocabulary Plus worksheets - extra vocabulary

Core Language

Grammar

Core Language

Real World

Core Language

Pronunciation

Pronunciation

• Integrated for all new grammar, all Real World language

• Sentence stress, weak forms, intonation, linking, etc.

Core Elements in Language Learning

• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills

Reviewing

• Review sections at the beginning of every lesson and at the end of each unit

• Photocopiable Progress Tests for each unit

Core Learning Skills

Reviewing 1

Core Learning Skills

Reviewing 2

Core Learning Skills

Reflection

Reflection

Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the Progress

Portfolios allow students to monitor their own language development

Structure12 Units (4 lessons each)

• A – B – C - D • Course Review pg 101• Songs pg 102• Pair and Group Work pg104• Language Summary pg 122• Recording Scripts pg 148• CD ROM

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