Authentication Selector. The latest research on teaching grammar. This is a summary of a chapter by Hossein Nassaji entitled Grammar Acquisition in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (2017).
The chapter in question succinctly and clearly reviews recent research into classroom grammar teaching and offers some general advice on the topic to language teachers. Can grammar instruction help develop proficiency? Nassaji points out that this has been a long-standing controversy in the field. Does learning develop primarily through explicit teaching and conscious manipulation of structures, or merely through unconscious processes when people are exposed to meaningful input (known as implicit learning)? N. Background 1. Explicit learning is leads to explicit knowledge, often called declarative knowledge, i.e. 2. What is the relationship between these two types of knowledge? The curse of single word vocab learning.
I’m not generally one to go around criticising what teachers do.
If you read my blogs you’ll know that I believe many things work if they’re done well. Success is often in the quality of delivery. But one thing which gives me repeated cause for concern is the time pupils spend on learning individual words. This can be in the form of traditional printed book lists or by the slightly snazzier means of apps such as Memrise, Vocab Express or Quizlet.
You see, the research on vocabulary acquisition suggests to us that, while explicitly learning islated words can be useful, it’s not the MOST useful thing to be doing with limited time. Cognitive science also tells us that memorising chunks of language is more efficient than doing so through isolated words. My conclusion has always been that the best way to help students acquire vocabulary is to present and practise it in meaningful contexts. A reflection on modern languages pedagogy and how teachers might engage with research. Languages for Education. The latest research on teaching vocabulary. I've been dipping into The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (2017) edited by Loewen and Sato.
This blog is a succinct summary of Chapter 16 by Beatriz González-Fernández and Norbert Schmitt on the topic of teaching vocabulary. I hope you find it useful. 1. Background The authors begin by outlining the clear importance of vocabulary knowledge in language acquisition, stating that it's a key predictor of overall language proficiency (e.g. (My note: this is also true, to an extent, of the oral-situational approach which I was trained in where most vocabulary is learned incidentally as part of question-answer sequences or textual study. 2. In 1990 Paul Nation was the main impetus behind a new focus on vocabulary with his book Teaching and Learning Vocabulary. Vocabulary acquisition now has a central role in the field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA). Eleven reasons why your students are underperforming in Listening.
Easy sentence builder frames. I've uploaded to frenchteacher.net a number of easy sentence builder frames for near-beginners.
These are aimed at the full range of ability and could be exploited in a number of ways to maximise recycling of high frequency verbs and chunks. The example below is followed by a possible teaching sequence. You could probably find alternative ideas. See what you think. Other examples on frenchteacher so far are: last weekend, school, holidays and pastimes. On fait des phrases – LE WEEKEND PROCHAIN Mode d’emploi Here is a possible teaching sequence. 1. 2. For teachers – NZAFT. L’intérieur de la chapelle de Chambord Kit de survie ~ links to important documents for teaching and assessing in New Zealand Foreign Language Assistant Programme for schools 2017 Foreign Language Assistant Programme The Foreign Language Assistant Programme, administered by ILEP and the respective donor government organisations, enables young native speakers to be employed as Language Assistants in New Zealand schools for 12 contact hours per week.
This provides an invaluable source of up-to-date language and cultural input for New Zealand students of French, German and Spanish. Some of the specific ways that Language Assistants can support teachers and students working with individuals and groups, general in-class support, sourcing and adapting materials and resources for the target language, preparing presentations for the class, Untitled. In text language bookshop melbourne. Languageteacherhelp. Tube - A Distraction-free Way to Search and Watch YouTube. Tube is a new tool providing a minimalist view of YouTube.
When you go to Tube all you will see is "Tube," a disclaimer, a link to the developer's Twitter account, and a search box. Enter your search terms into the Tube search box and a list of results appears below it without showing any advertising or other sidebar content. When you click one of the videos in the search results it is displayed nearly full-screen on a plain white background. Applications for Education If you have ever wanted to show a YouTube video in your classroom but got discouraged by "related" videos or advertisements in the sidebar, Tube is a tool that you should try. Tube won't remove advertisements that are played within the video itself, but it does hide everything else. A few similar tools that I also like are Quietube, ViewPure, and Watchkin.
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