1. Teaching Oral Language

2. What do you currently do to teach oral Language in your class?
Write down one thing that works really well in your class.
Share your strategy with your group.
Summarise & report back

3. We use language in different ways
Relationships
Interpersonal
Transactions
Socio-cultural
Language
structures
& features
Participate in
or create
Communication
Aesthetic
Learning
how to learn
Knowledge
Listen to,
read/view
& respond
Giving information
Informational
Getting information
Processing & using
information

4. Activities that teach the informational use of language
Barrier games
Sequencing activities
Whole group
Small group
Individual efforts

5. What works for you?
Write down one activity to teach the informational use of language that has worked for you.

6. Activities to teach the Aesthetic use of language
Songs, chants, rhymes & nursery rhymes
Tongue twisters – having fun with language
Listening to and telling stories
Innovating on texts

7. Activities to teach the interpersonal use of language
Role plays – practicing what to say
Telephone
Situational language eg messages to teachers, shop, front office, doctors etc
Rehearsing – teaching kids how to rehearse in their heads

8. The Active Teacher
1. Knows the kids & Plans for their needs
3. - Helps kids to understand what they are going to learn & how to go about it
- Provides models of English & helps kids with English when they are using it
The students & teachers build positive, communicative relationships as they work together
The Active Learner
The Learning Context
– classroom, program, teacher & students
4. Takes risks & uses English to learn
6. Can talk about what s/he is doing & what s/he has learnt
2. Provides a reason for kids to use English
5. Supports the kids’ learning to help them take risks
Adapted from WTT, Fran Murray