English, TEYL Vorlesung

Teaching English to Young learners

Teaching English to Young learners


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Sprache English
Kategorie Pädagogik
Stufe Universität
Erstellt / Aktualisiert 12.07.2015 / 04.02.2017
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In this method, grammar rules are presented first, which means that this approach is ________?

deductive

The audioluingual  method is based on the behaviourist idea that language learning equals __________.

habit formation

According to cameron, why is the use of stories appropriate in primary FLT?

Rich and authentic language, imagination attracts children

In his Studiy, that was published 1989, Elley suggested that illustrated storybooks can support word growth in the L1 of up to 40 % of the vocabulary is explained. Y or N?

Yes

The literate Device that describes a state where the reader knows more than the character of a story is called __________

dramatic irony

Are the following relevant questions when choosing a story to promote language learning according to cameron?

 

Name the three stages of storybook sessions as suggested by cameron. Give examples for each

Preparartion Activity ( brainstroming words, predicting storyline on the base of pictures)

Core activity (teacher reads or retells story, children listen and watch)

Follow up activity (drawing a picture and talk about it, writing down individual words, roel play, miming actions, singing)

Rank the Following activities according to theit level of difficultiy (1-4), start with the easiest.

Listen and repeat

Role Play

Memory Game (If i went to the market)

Listen and copy actions

1 Listen and copy actions

2 Listen and repeat

3 Memory Game (If i went to the market)

4 Role Play

In 1983, Pawley and Syler suggested that native speakers can speak fluently and quickly because they have memorized a great number of chunks of language. Y or N?

 

Yes

What can be taught about culture in FL programms?

Geographical Fatcs, How people live, Historical facts, Arts/literature/sports, Rituals

Name three aspects of teaching about how people live in other cultures as part of Landeskunde

Children live in a multicultural society, They need to be prepared for intercultural encounters, should develop cross-cultural awareness by comparing languages and cultures

Listening and culture must be seen as seperate units Y or N?

No

Teaching culture should involve the teaching of intercultural awareness. Y or N?

 

Yes

When we teach culture, we should develop openness towards culture in children. Y or N?

Yes

Give the full term of the concept developed by Byram in 1997 for the teaching of culture ( ICC). What does it say?

ICC- Intercultural Communicative Competence

Do not just teach cultural fatcs, but also a set of competences:

- attitudes (openness to other cultures)

- Knowledge (cultural infos, discuss stereotypes)

- skills of interpreting and relating (find cultural similarities/ differences)

- skills of discovery and interaction ( native speakers visit school)

- critical culture awareness (teacher as role model, no us vs. them)

What kind of typical breakfast for the english speaking world is mentioned in Goldilocks an the three bears?

Porridge

According to Breaster/ Ellis and Girard, listening is organised in three stages. Give them and their aims

Pre Listening activities: motivate and prepare learners

While listening activities: support listening, develop subskills, sustain interest

Post Listening activities: give children opportunity to express their ideas/ feelings, make them aware of the new words/ language patterns, to develop their skills (reproduce language)

After listening, YLs do not need to be given the opportunity to express their feelings and ideas. Y or N?

No

After listening, Yls should be given the opportunity to reproduce some of the language used in the text. Y or N?

Yes

Since when was English taught as FL1 at Rudolph Steiners Waldorf-Schulen?

the early 1920s

Name the stages of learning a first language according to Brewster/ellis/girard 2002

1. Babbling birth- 8 Months

2. The first word (ca. 12 months)

3. Combinations of two words (around 18 months- 2 years)

4. phonological, syntatic and lexical norms (3rd and 4th yrs)

5. Syntatic and lexical complexity and richness (6-12 years, best time for chants, rhymes ect.)

6. Conversational skills (children/ teenagers start to realize and communicate, if something is not clear

Young children at the age of 5 have been exposed to around ______ hours of language input, whereas a five year class, 2 hours a week is only a mere  ____ hours.

19.000 520

Give some of the main ideas of Vietors pamphlet .

grammar is defined by language use, not by rules in books

a different language sounds different

words cannot be learnt out of context

learners need to discover regular patterns in language themselves (inductive approach)

How was the teaching in FLT before the Reform Movement ?

Focus on written words

main aim was understanding (Latin/Greek) texts of great thinkers

grammar and reading was important

presenting grammar rules first (deductive approach) example sentences h#had to be translated.

Grammar translation method

FLT after Reform Movement?

Direct method

- lessons taught in FL

-listening and speaking important

-first examples of everyday language

-words learnt in context

inductive approach to grammr (look at examples, discover patterns)

What is the Audiolingual method about?

  • was a army method
  • based on behavourism (Language learning= habit formation)
  • learning by imitations/repetitions (pattern drill)
  • listen and look; listen, look and repat; look and say

What is CLT, which are the basic ideas and on whoms Idea does it base?

  • Communicative LT
  • based on Hymes idea of communicative competence
  • language in social context, grammatical knowledge not enough
  • learn to use L2 in different contexts
  • meaningful activities in FLT

Who developed TPR, what does it stand for, which are the main ideas?

  • James Asher
  • Total Physical Response
  • Undestand Language, before producing it
  • Learners act out commands (watch, listen, do, speak)

As a teacher you need to remember, that children of year 1/2 might ________________ and your 2/3/4 year children will start to develop _______________________________.

 

 

  • be very self centred (difficulty understanding someones elses point)
  • logical, adult like thinking, BUT will need contextualized learning material in concrete situations.

Who introduced the idea of scaffolding, when and what is it about?

  • Jerome S Bruner in 1976
  • Scaffolding (=gerüst)

During interaction in ZPD, the adult should:

  • encourage child
  • highlight difficulties
  • ensure that the child is not distracted& is motivated to finish the task

Name some of the multiple intelligences according to Gardener.

linguistic, logico-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic,...

Which implications did Cameron(2001) suggest for FLT?

  • no watered down secondary syllabus
  • FL needs to be presented in meaningful/purposeful activities
  • literacy skills can only support FL learning later/9years
  • teach vocab and discourse skill
  • make children aware of patterns and regularities

Learning how to read in English involves...

  • recognizing syntactic patterns
  • grapho-phonemic correspondence
  • recognizing the shapes of letters
  • sight recognition of high frequency vocab
  • direction of text
  • make use of cues
  • making use of previous knowledge of the world & topic
  • using knowledge of structure &organisation of texts

Top ten of reading in EYL classes (part of it)

  • read out regularly with the children, while they follow pictures/prints
  • Use a combination of whole word method and phonics
  • Reading actvities should be meaningfull, they schould have a purpose
  • Organize Pre-reading, while reading and post-reading activities

Are the fllowing activities receptive or productive?

Listening, speaking, reading, writing

receptive: listening, reading productive: speaking, writing

Developing writing in EYL classes, name some points

 

  • Start with tracing and copying individual words
  • introduce word-level writing
  • introduce guided writing - for an audience

 

 

Name the main points of Lewis research from 1993 about vocab and grammar.

Grammar and Lexis are interwaven and hard to seperate & Learners need to be taught lexical phrases/ chunks of language (lexical approach)

How words are learnt, name the 3 stages.

Noticing stage (become aware of a new word); Retrieval (having to remember its meaning, form); Generative use (using it in ones own statement

What grammar to teach?

Facts: plural (children need to accept them); Patterns; Choices ( can i change the words in a sentence?)

What makes a text or a bock a story (Cameron 2001)

  • events happen in temporal sequence
  • thematic structure: Problems have to be solved difficulties have to be overcome
  • Prototypical features: opening (once upon a time); inttroduction of characters, setting and conflict; a series of events; resolution of conflict
  • closing (and they lived happily ever after) & moral