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Taiwan Teacher Professional Development Series. Advancing Oral Proficiency in our World Language Classrooms Jie Tian. Objectives. Explore reasons why many learners fail to engage in lesson discussions Develop thoughts on Integration of communicative language in lesson instruction. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Advancing Oral Proficiency in our World Language
Classrooms
Jie Tian
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Taiwan Teacher Taiwan Teacher Professional Professional
Development SeriesDevelopment Series
Objectives
Explore reasons why many learners fail to engage in lesson discussions
Develop thoughts on Integration of communicative language in lesson instruction
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Active and Passive Learning
Students tend to be more actively involved in certain learning environments and more passive in others. In looking at your WL classroom, are your students active or passive?
What are the characteristics of a classroom learning environment that helps you to be a more active and confident student and one in which you tend to remain more passive?
www.learner.org
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Activity
Venn Diagram
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Passive Active
Learner Engagement – the # 1 first priority in active learning
Definition: To attract and maintain a learner’s interest and
active involvement in all lesson content and related tasks, with clearly articulated “evidence checks” of a concrete, productive response to instruction (i.e., some objective, behaviorally observable response to instruction)
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Expanding Students’ Oral Proficiency Opportunities in Class
***All students want to be able to speak & share ideas***Essential components to consider when building OP to
promote communicative competence: Vocabulary- words that students know, learns, uses Syntax- the way words are arranged to form sentences
or phrases Grammar – the rules according to which the words of a
language change their form and are combined into sentences
Register – the communicative style of language use of degree of formality reflected in word choice and grammar
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Steps in Structuring Accountable Discussions in WL Classes
Establish a clear purpose - pose an open-ended contextualized task.
Build up the path - model an appropriate response with vocabulary/content/ grammar.
Monitor students’ speaking process and offer assistance as necessary
Pair to share responses using the assigned starter Synthesize contribution and establish connections to the
curricula.
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What is conscientiously planned and structured in scaffolded interactive
discussions?
EVERYTHING! The task – something that all students should be able to
complete Who? – assigned partner or group Time – relatively brief, highly focused Preparation – Prepared participation – model response,
think time, pre-teaching of targeted vocabulary, rehearsal with partner
Academic language use – linguistic framing with written and verbal application of target vocabulary and grammar
Listening – note-taking task; active listening & acknowledging tasks
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Try this in your TL
Using one of our in-class lesson demos or a lesson you have created yourself, think of a topic or way you would like to open an interactive discussion in your WL classroom in the TL
Clearly ask the question Clearly ask students to respond orally (to provide a
model) You may want 1 – 2 word answers first, Then, depending on level/age, the students may
expand those into sentence form using YOUR SENTENCE STARTER(S)
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