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Title: TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE -- TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES


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TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE-- TIPS FROM THE
TRENCHES
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KNOW YOUR STUDENTS
  • Learn as much as you can about your students
    their lives, their culture and their
    personalities/learning styles. Use the students
    culture to support learning.
  • Prior knowledge is an important factor in
    learning a 2nd language. We connect the new
    through the old and create meaning in the
    process.

Key Words schema, cognates, transfer, student
centered teaching, L1
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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.
  • These are the 3 cardinal virtues of the EFL / ESL
    instructor.
  • Use less words when instructing and demonstrate
    more.
  • Avoid slang and idiomatic expressions.
  • Reinforce with body language.
  • Repeat and Review OFTEN.

Key Words TPR, micro teaching skills. lesson
delivery, modifications
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Provide a Target and a Timeline
  • Write the lesson objective or target language on
    the board.
  • Provide students with a simple, 1-2-3 agenda.
  • We learn better when we can see the destination.
  • Always teach the big picture first and then
    specifics.

Key Words lesson planning, teaching strategies,
sequencing, assessment
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COW
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Provide Context, Background
  • Use manipulatives and realia (props) when
    presenting language.
  • Make it real if possible, go on field trips,
    connect with real email pals, take the lessons
    outside.
  • Use video and pictures to reinforce the learning.
    Context allows students to acquire language as
    they create a their own theory of the world.

Key Words the natural approach, realia, visual
learners, connectivism, epistemology
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Everything has its time and place.
  • Never force students to speak or to read/write
    before they are ready.
  • Call on more competent students to provide
    comprehensible output for the class.
  • There are no errors, only pit stops on the road
    to language competency.

Key Words error correction, the silent period
, I1, the critical period hypothesis,
developmental stages
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Make it Active!
  • We can learn on our feet as well as on our duffs.
  • Give students tasks and focus on production and
    their talk time.
  • The more students speak or are engaged in the
    learning, the more they will be learning.

Key Words Comprehensible output, task based
instruction, teacher talk, inductive learning.
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Keep it up to date!
  • Use current events, stories and the now as
    context.
  • Computer assisted language learning, videos,
    technology and social networking are crucial
    instructional aids.
  • Authentic and teacher made materials lead to good
    teaching practices.

Key Words digital natives, call, technology and
computers, text to speech
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Get more bang for your buck
  • Focus on one skill but use them all, every
    lesson.
  • Language learning is a multi-modal experience and
    we use all our senses, skills.
  • Reinforce speech with text / writing. Teach
    listening skills and dont assume understanding.

Key Words language modes, lesson planning,
learning styles
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Make it social!
  • Language learning is a social event.
  • We learn in concert with others.
  • Group your students and use their differing
    levels so they help each other.
  • Teach cooperation and make a learning family out
    of your class.

Key Words cooperative learning, project based
instruction, pragmatics, social networking,
netizens
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Pause create suspense!
  • Good teachers create anticipation in their
    classrooms. Students attend in anticipation of
    what comes next.
  • Deliver your lessons so there is a sense of what
    might come next?.
  • Pause often to allow students to reflect and
    answer questions. A good pause is what makes
    action!

Key Words lesson delivery, lesson planning,
narrative, rhetoric
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Its all about happiness
  • Learning is built on the emotional world of a
    student.
  • Start with happiness and learning will pour
    forth.
  • Id rather graduate one happy street sweeper
    than a thousand neurotic prime ministers.
    A.S. Neill

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  • When one teaches,
  • two learn.

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