Creativity and Motivation in the Classroom with Teacher Language Development
Malta, Valetta Easy School of Languages 30 July-10 August 2018
English is not fun no pain no gain new insights in your own teaching context meaningful motivating memorable (engaging) linguistic grammar x pedagogic grammar story telling (personalisation)
eliciting (grammar, vocabulary, prediction) accuracy – fluency ( how to correct) language development formal-informal language technologies in teaching
Topics to discuss warmers and icebreakers reading speaking vocabulary listening writing
Warmers and icebreakers life circle all levels asking questions find something in common in your group (eyes, age) 33 23 Prague 2 1985
Reading do not tell them the end of the story-guessing picture guessing before the beg. of a story elicit (vocabulary, grammar) tell your own story instead of reading it
Speaking personalising-telling students a story scaffolded speaking creating poetry
Vocabulary phrasal verbs, compound adjectives drawing the activity miming the activity pronunciation – what is the difference between a black bird and a blackbird? (answers plus stress)
Listening life listening (much more powerful) student’s feedback songs- 90% of content is not understood even by a native speaker advantages x disadvantages drawing pictures according to the dictation
Writing scaffolded writing do not correct all the mistakes interesting topics fitting for the student do not correct all the mistakes not so important for fluency and accuracy
Thank you for your attention