21/10/2011

First CICEX Teachers Annual Meeting

Part of CICEX Anniversary Activities

COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING TODAY

Implementing CLT in CICEX

Whats Communicative Language Teaching?

Does CLT mean

teaching conversation? avoiding grammar?

emphasizing open-ended discussion activities?

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Task 1: Group Work

Look at task 1. Which of the statements do you think characterizes communicative language teaching?

Whats Communicative Language Teaching?

A set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the roles of teachers and learners.
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The goals of language learning

Communicative Competence

Grammatical Competence

Ability to use language for meaningful communication

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Knowledge of a language

those competences that empower a person to act using specifically linguistic means.

Parts of speech, tenses, phrases, clauses, sentence patterns.

Ability to produce sentences.

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Communicative Competence: Characteristics

use language for different purposes and functions.

Know how to

use language according to the setting and participants. produce and understand different types fo texts. maintain conversation.

Task 2: Pair work

Look at task 2. Consider the following sentences that are all requests for someone to open a door. Imagine that the context is normal communication between two friends. Check if you think they conform to the rules of grammatical competence (GC), communicative competence (CC), or both.

How learners learn a language

Mastery of grammatical competence Process of mechanical habit formation Avoidance of errors

Interaction between the learner and the user of the language Collaborative creation of meaning
Creating meaningful and purposeful interaction Negotiation of meaning

Memorization and drilling

Controlled opportunities for production

Learning through feedback Trying out and experimeting with different ways of saying things

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Kinds of Classroom activities that Best Facilitate Learning

Mastery of grammar Controlled activities Memorization Drills

Traditional approaches

Pair work Role plays Group work activities Project work

CLT

CLT began a movement away from traditional lesson formats.

Task 3: Pair work

Examine a classroom text, NAIO. Can you find examples of exercises that practice grammatical competence and those that practice communicative competence? Which kinds of activities predominate?

Classroom activities in Communicative Language Teaching

Accuracy

Fluency

Classroom use of language Formation of correct examples of languagage Practice language

out of context small samples of langauge

Do not require meaningful communication Choice of language is controlled

Natural use of language Achieving communication Meaningful use of language Use of communication strategies Produce language that might not be predictable Seek to link language use to context

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Task 4: (Part 1) Whole Class

Discuss with a partner the question below. Then, share your ideas with the class.
Can

you give examples of fluency and accuracy activities that you use in your teaching?

Task 4: (Part 2) Pair Work

Read the tasks in pairs and determine whether they are fluency or accuracy activities.

Types of Practice
Mechanical: - Controlled practice activity. - Student dont need to understand the language

Types of practice

Meaningful: - Language control is still provided - Students are requited meaningful choices to carry out practice: Communicative: - Use of language within a real communicative context - Language is not totally preditable

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Task 5: Pair Work

Examine the activities in one unit of a course book, NAIO. Can you find examples of activities that provide mechanical, meaningful, and communicative practice? What type of activities predominate?

Activities that really promote communication

In real communication people normally communicate to get information they do not possess. This is know is an information-gap.
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Information-gap Jig-saw Information-gathering Information-transfer Task-completion Opinion-sharing Role-plays

The roles of teachers and learners in the classroom

Roles Traditional approaches CLT

Individualistic approach to learning Students relied on Students teachers a models

Models for correct Teachers grammar and pronunciation

Cooperative approach to learning Students listen to their peers Take responsability for their own learning Facilitators Monitors

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Task 6: Group work

In groups of 3 or 4 discuss the question below:

What difficulties might students and teachers face because of changes in their roles in using a communicative methodology?

Share your conclusions with the class.

Communicative language teaching today

Implementing CLT in CICEX