Igniting the Adult English Language Learner TESOL Workshop

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Igniting the Adult English Language LearnerTESOL
Workshop

• Steve Przymus

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Workshop Objectives

• SWBAT learn various TESOL strategies and have
  opportunities for guided practice
• SWBAT practice the strategies Morning Message,
  The Human Computer, Task-based Language Teaching,
  The Song of the Week, Coffee Cookie Break,
  Inside/Outside Circle, Musical Share, TESOL Tech,
  and Bingo Night from the perspective of a student
  and discuss applications for each for their own
  classrooms

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A Rain Dance

• Lets get warmed up and ready to go!
• Two truths and a lie
• Magic

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Keys to eliciting language from students Set
students up for success!

• Affective
• filter
• Motivation

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The Morning Message

• Today_____________________________________________
  ______________
• I feel ___________________________
• _________________________________
• I want___________________________
• _________________________________

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The Morning Message

• Today_____________________________________________
  ______________
• Last night I ______________________
• _________________________________
• After class tonight I_______________
• _________________________________

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Morning message

• Today_____________________________________________
  ______________
• If I ____________________________
• I _______________________________
• I really hope_____________________
• Im looking forward to______________
• I cant wait_______________________

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The Song of the Week

• Taps into different learning styles and
  motivations
• Fun way to study grammar
• if clauses
• if I had a million dollars, I would
• How many things can you understand and write down
  from the song If I had a million dollars by the
  Bare Naked Ladies?
• 17? If I had a million dollars.pptx

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Fun ways to review content

• Inside/Outside Circle
• Musical Share
• The Congo Line

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Community Bingo Night

• Mixing NS NNS
• Negotiation of meaning
• Ask clarifying questions
• Slower rates of speech
• Re-wording sentences
• Increased usage of nonverbals
• Food Music/Distractions
• Everyday Bingo Everday bingo.docx

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Coffee Cookie Break

• 10 2 (Time for clarification in L1)
• Structured L1 Use

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Differentiation/ Multi-level Teaching

• Focus
• Form Meaning
• (grammar activities) (Communicative
  activities)

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Community Language LearningThe Human Computer

• Identify important contextual communicative
  situations
• Student led content
• Human Computer Ex.) I was thinking about joining
  the Art club .band\Output\Output.aif
• Teacher aided pronunciation, syntax, and
  discourse appropriateness
• Great for differentiated instruction, for
  increasing student motivation, and lowering the
  affective filter
• Opportunity for meaningful practice with
  speaking, writing, listening, and reading

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Community Language Learning example

• Materials needed Tape recorder or computer and a
  meaningful idea
• How to enroll your child in pre-school, or How to
  request an early childhood speech language
  evaluation, etc.
• Lets practice

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Task-based Language Teaching

• Perform functions/tasks
• Emphasis on the process of communication, not on
  mastery of forms
• Errors are natural
• Teachers Roll Facilitate Observe (list needed
  vocabulary, grammar forms, and discourse errors
  to address afterwards)
• How do I get to the mall from here? taskbased.mov
• Real Communicative Activities
• Information gap, choice, feedback

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Task-based Language Teaching

• Increases interaction, output, and forces
  negotiation of meaning
• Forced Output Makes learners aware of their gaps
  in knowledge
• Great for meeting the needs of a diverse group of
  proficiency levels
• Lets practice
• Needed meaningful task with somewhat predictable
  use of language, frontload, time to collaborate
  on task

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TESOL Technology

• Blogs
• Anonymity, lowered aff. filter, time to think,
  increased motivation, taps into diff. learning
  styles
• https//www.blogger.com/start
• http//letstalkenglish.blogspot.com/
• PowerPoints
• Literacy through pictures
• Unit 13Fernanda.pptx
• Contextual Language Learning
• Google accounts (google talk, gmail, blogs,
  chats
• Skype, Facebook

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Keys for Increasing Interaction

• Tap into prior knowledge
• Lower the affective filter
• Increase motivation/meaningful communicative tasks

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Small group Large GroupApplication
Brainstorming

• Ideas
• Questions
• Comments