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Title: Holistic English Teaching


1
Holistic English Teaching
  • ---Activities Balanced in Four Skills
  • by
  • Emily Huimei Fu
  • From NCTU, Hsinchu City
  • 2009

2
Holistic English Teaching
  • Think Big, Start Small.

3
Contents
  • Within Textbooks
  • (in self-instruction style)
  • Dialogue, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary
  • Beyond Textbooks
  • Picture description, Story chain, Interview
    teachers,
  • Information Gap, Interview friends,
  • Group projects

4
Teaching Dialoguein Self-instruction Style
  • Pre-study
  • Discuss pictures, or title with Ss.
  • During-study
  • Play CD several times, have Ss listen to
  • and read aloud carefully then
  • answer worksheets with book open.
  • Post-study
  • Role-play, retell rewrite the content of the
    dialogue.
  • Or relate the content to Ss experience.

5
Teaching Reading in Self-instruction Style
  • Pre-study
  • Discuss pictures, key words or title with Ss.
  • During-study
  • Play CD several times, have Ss read aloud
  • with CD, then listen to Ts questions
  • carefully answering them on notebooks
  • with book open.
  • Post-study
  • Check Ss answers in class, relate content
  • to Ss experience or make a concept map.

6
Teaching Grammar in Context
  • Language / Grammar Focus
  • Do 3 steps of drills mechanical,
  • meaningful, communicative drill.
  • Figure out grammar rules or sentence patterns
    with Ss inductively after doing mechanical
    drills.

7
Teaching Vocabulary in Context
  • Deal with the content first.
  • Follow the steps
  • Skim to catch the main idea.
  • Read aloud content several times.
  • Scan to catch specific information.
  • Infer meanings through context.
  • Confirm Ss understanding by
  • their translation or sentence
  • making.

8
Picture Description
  • T guides and discusses situation in pictures with
    Ss.
  • Ss are allowed to give key words,
  • phrases or simple sentences orally first.
  • Ss organize materials as a complete article with
    Ts guide or help.

9
Activities for Class Work
  • Story Chain
  • Based on teachers guiding questions and
    situational pictures, students answer and
  • write them down cooperatively as a story.

10
Activities for Class Work
  • Interview our teacher
  • Teacher offers/creats a situation.
  • Teacher collects students
  • questions.
  • T Ss organize Qs in order.
  • Teacher answers questions.
  • Students write them down.
  • Students rewrite them as a passage.

11
Activities for Pair Work
  • Information Gap
  • Teacher makes two different versions of
    worksheets for pair work, based on the pattern
    being learned.
  • Two Ss work on them cooperatively
  • organizing the whole truth.

12
Activities for Group Work
  • Interview my friends
  • Teacher makes interview worksheets based on the
    learned patterns for students within groups to
    apply the target language in reality
    communicatively.

13
Activities for Group Work
  • Group project
  • Teacher makes well designed worksheets (with
    real-like situation and wordbank) for students to
    review the learned pattern and vocabulary and
    apply the target language in reality
    meaningfully to express themselves.
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