APPROACHES TO YILL

YILL - ADVANTAGES Constant exposure to target language No serious other curricular commitments Scope for longer term, more extensive language tasks Good opportunities to develop personal study skills A VERY INTENSIVE PROGRAMME

YILL - ISSUES A VERY INTENSIVE PROGRAMME Overload Loss of motivation Course management: syllabus design, assessment Life after YILL

Syllabus Design input practiceinput practice test input skillswork input recycle practice test input skillswork lg. project skillswork check progress lg. project

PREDICTABILITY VARIETY Loss of Motivation

Variety of Syllabus Staff Materials Skills Lesson types Focus Approaches

Syllabus Design Skills based lessons: –Language skills –Study Skills Dosing input Frequent Checking / Recycling / Assessment lessons Different lesson types (eg. role lg projects)

Variety of Materials The course book (is it necessary to have more than 1?) Grammar books Readers Dictionaries Software DVDs Net based Authentic

learnInvolve me remember and Ill Show me forgetTell me

Main learning strategy types Cognitive –Analogy (comparing lg rules) (I speak German and comparing new structures to German structures helps me a lot ) –Memorization (visual / auditory) (I can only learn it if I see it. ) –Repetition –Writing things down ( I always write new things down as soon as I can ) –Inferencing (forming guesses about form / meaning of a new item) (I like to have a go with language I dont know) Metacognitive –Planning for learning (I think it is very important that we have a plan about our learning) –Thinking about making learning more effective ( Its great when we discuss how we could become better learners) –Self-monitoring Socio – affective - Seeking opportunities for practice inititating conversations ( I dont mind talking to people I dont know just to practise my English.) Radio, tv, language lab ( I watch and listen to as many English language programmes as I can. I also go to the language lab to practise.)

You are Marcus. Its Sunday today and you have just met Tanya, a younger friend of yours who you know very well. Find out what she did yesterday: where she was, who she was with, how long she stayed and how she went home. You are Tanya and you have just met Marcus who you know very well. Yesterday it was Saturday and you went clubbing again with your friends. There were a lot of other people in the club and you think you stayed until 2 am or a bit later. You liked it there and you took a taxi home but it was not easy to catch one.

Marcus and Tanya role play stages 1.Dialogue from book given out as role play 2.Feedback – elicit questions 3.Listen to original 4.Compare

1.Select a dialogue in your course book 2.Design a role play around it 3.Feedback – sort out basic language issues 4.Listen to / Read original text 5.Compare the 2 6.Discuss TASK BASED APPROACH

Rules to form Comparatives in English AdjectiveComparativeWhy? warm warm er Regular, monosyllabic adjective. expensive big easy nice far little good GUIDED DISCOVERY

Find lg point and relevant resource material Design worksheet Give out wsheets and resource materials Learners work individually / in pairs / small groups Feedback Input

TEST TEACH TEST

TEST TEACH TEST - STAGES Find an exercise that practises target language TEST (Get learners to do it as a first activity) TEACH (I nput based on results of previous stage.) TEST (Quick exercise to see if they really got input)

There are many anecdotes about Pablo Picasso the famous Spanish artist and sculptor. Once Charlie Chaplin went to see him in his studio. While Picasso was working on one of his paintings he accidentally split some paint on Chaplins trousers. Picasso immediately offered to get some alcohol to remove it but Chaplin said: Please, dont. Just leave the paint where it is, and make sure you also sign my trousers. DICTOGLOSS

Choose text Read out text 3 times Learners reconstruct contents of text Feedback INPUT

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