1. Early Foreign Language Learning. 0. Introduction 07/02/2011 Mª del Carmen Alario Trigueros Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura E.U. de Educación de Palencia. Universidad de Valladolid. www.edupa.uva.es

2. Education means providing tools to develop what our students bring within a given society. Act & value, assume new challengesAct & value, assume new challenges Think, negociate and shareThink, negociate and share RespondRespond Observe the world and life: explain it with wordObserve the world and life: explain it with word Language, Culture & Life. Communication y representation

3. Representative Función Communicative Function LANGUAGE & DEVELOPMENT: FUNCTIONS Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in our mind.Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in our mind. Regulatory Función Informational Función Language regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic DLanguage regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic D Language helps us to share information.Language helps us to share information. Language help us to participate in a coommon taskLanguage help us to participate in a coommon task Symbolic Function

4. SKILL, COMPETENCES & CAPACITIES Listening and understandingListening and understanding (Knowledge required: chunk and associate meaning to the oral steam) Responding and SpeakingResponding and Speaking (Knowledge required: Using social and communicative skills in the interaction. Pourposeful usage of gaze, non.verbal language, paralanguage and sentences) Oral InteractionOral Interaction ( : saber cuál es su papel en el contextos, identificar y usar las reglas sociales de participación, reconocer y adaptarse a la estructura textual.) Reading and understanding/ reading interactionReading and understanding/ reading interaction (identify the intention, generate a previous idea –identify, localize, select and verify information) Writing and written InteractionWriting and written Interaction (expresing ideas, feelings, events, wishes in and organized way. It requires: – Planning, selecting, organizing and following a structure)

5. Vygostky’stheory of Language Vygostky’s theory of Language InnerspeechInner speech Verbal thought Verbal thought Public speechPublic speech Private speechPrivate speech 1.- 2.- 3.- 4.- Order the terms according to Vygostk’s theory of LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT.

6. Review your achievements Can you answer using this thinking organizer, the question we asked ourselves on Monday? How can I (adult/ carateker) help the development of children’s competences and capacities through communication/ oral interaction?How can I (adult/ carateker) help the development of children’s competences and capacities through communication/ oral interaction?

7. Now, decide your targets