LANGUAGE DEPARTMENTLINGUISTICS DEGREE

 

 

   

 

 

TEFL

TOPICS

-TWO APPROACHES TO TEACHING LANGUAGE

-THREE DIMENSIONS OF GRAMMAR-PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHING GRAMMAR

THE IMPORTANCE OF GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE

-OWN EXPERIENCES : LEARNER AND TEACHER

TEFLTEFL/TESOL

* TEFL : Teaching English as Foreing Language

* TESOL: Teaching English as Second Language

What does each one of these involve?*TEFL *TESOLBy learning Inmerse : by communicatingLexico grammar

Two different means = same purpose

LEXICOGRAMMAR Words and grammatical structures

THE THREE DIMENSIONS

FORM : How is it form ? ACCURACYMEANING: What does it mean?

MEANINGFULNESSUSE: When / Why is it used ?

APPROAPRIATENESS

She was walking home from school that day when she ran into a friend.

Two approaches

Teaching with a focus on language use because learning a language means communicating with the new language

Teaching with a focus on language forms because learning a language means learning the grammar and lexicon of the new language

You ?Your students ?Me: I have learned both ways My students: language use communication What activities can facilitate that ?-singing songs-reading news on line-watching movies - Social networks : facebook

Is it possible to use both of them (perspectives) ? Yes !!!• Some language learners learn a language

better in context without any explicit formal instruction.

• Other language learners learn the language better with explicit instruction in lexicogrammar

• The bottom line is teachers are better prepared to assist the learning of their students if they have a strong background in the grammar.

• View grammar with communicative end.

Types of instruction

• Teachers can explicitly teach grammar : rules and exercises

• Teachers can implicitly teach grammar :tasks that require - grammatical structures.

• Teachers can provide negative evidence showing what is not possible in English. (I don’t like nothing)

Why is it important grammar knowledge?

A teacher should have strong knowledge:Advantages :*Better prepared to meet his/her students

learning needs.*Is able to provide all learners appropiate

exposure

SuggestionsApproach to grammar is eclectic

/multifacetedGrammar is accessible to teachers and

students without a great deal of linguistics background

Not all facts about a language are known already

Design meaningful activities : contextualized situations.

Language learning

According to Illich (1972) “Learning is the human activity which least needs manipulation by others. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.”