Learning Language for Language Teaching a.a – 2016 Semester 1 Lesson 2 8/10/15
HOMEWORK week 1 Background Reading: 1. media/kolb/kolb_flash.htm full.pdf+html
HOMEWORK (‘cont’d) Begin your Course Booklet – what, how, you Find instructions of ‘running dictation’ activity Written Homework Task 1: What makes a good teacher ?
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Semester I The learner The teacher Classroom management and organisation
The learner - lessons 2, 3, 4 & 5 The teacher - lessons 6 & 7 The classroom - lessons 8 & 9
The teacher The classroom The learner
me this room you
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Activities
“learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience”. Kolb D. A. (1984) Experiential Learning: experience as the source of learning and development New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Activity 1 Remember this?
Stages in the cycle
Brainstorming
Activity 2 Filling in… the gaps
Answers to gapfill exercise: 1.aims 2.reflect 3.role 4.forum 5.experience 6.input 7.twofold 8.understanding 9.review 10.lexical
Activity 3 Playing around with words
1.of in stages there separate the cycle are four Kolb learning there are four separate stages of learning in the Kolb cycle
2.learning it that all stages be sequence in for successful to place take is important followed it is important that all stages be followed in sequence for successful learning to take place
3. learned being how by a learner passive do not internalise we we have by being a passive learner we do not internalise how we have learned
4. on is necessary reflect it to experience to formulate generalisations make and concepts the it is necessary to reflect on the experience to make generalisations and formulate concepts
5.action must make link between and learner the the the theory the learner must make the link between the theory and action
Activity 4 4 Pieces make a whole Groups of
The 4 stages of the Kolb cycle 1.Concrete Experience 2.Reflective Observation 3.Abstract Conceptualisation 4. Active Experimentation
Activity 5 Here’s the…
5 stages of text exploitation 1.Image stimulation 2.Gapfill 3. Word order 4.Memory & retelling 5. Final reading & check
Reflection
Refelection How do these 5 stages work? What did you learn from these activities? How successful was your group in completing the activities?
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The Learner
With a partner discuss the following questions: 1.What are the characteristics of a good language learner? 2. What are your own strengths and weaknesses in language learning? 3. What strategies do you employ when you learn a foreign language?
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HOMEWORK
Course Booklet Entry II – write up today’s lesson what, how, you First, complete the questionnaire on learner characteristics & then read the list of characteristics of good language learners Written Homework Task 2: What sort of learner are you?
HOMEWORK (cont’d) Background Reading: James Frith Lessons from Good Language Learners English Language Teaching Journal (2010) 64(1): (go to ELTJ via SBA)