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1. Values for ELT
INTRODUCTION
AND FRAMEWORK
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Andrés Ramos
Concepts supporting this series’ tips for values teaching

2. Values or Competencies?
Competencies, or Life Skills, encompass knowledge,
skills, values, and attitudes for performance in different
fields as their aim (UNESCO, 1998).
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Out of all the four aspects above, this series will focus
on values as a means to address the individual’s
personal growth, with performance as a start and the
person’s inner development as an end.

3. So we teach them and all
become ‘good’ people?
Diverse philosophies regard humankind as good,
bad, or prone to change. This series does not
discuss the State of Nature.
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Nurture, instead, is this series’ concern. To whichever
extent – lesser or greater – values in ELT help, instilling and
exemplifying them impact us, our colleagues, our students,
and our communities for the better.

4. How does Values for ELT work?
Every month, a value will be published, covering these sections:
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• Are You Tired of…
• What Is (Value) All about?
• Talk The Talk about (Value)
• Walk The Walk towards (Value)
• (Value) + ELT Strategies
• (Value), The Perfect Match for
• Inspiration from (Value)
With distinct photo art to facilitate concept awareness and use:

5. “Are You Tired of...”
… This slide lists adverse consequences
arising from not living by the value addressed.
Using the “are you tired of…” line of
infomercials, the need for the value is
presented in a humorous way.
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6. What Is This Value All about?
This slide is devoted to definitions from
contemporary and classical dictionaries,
with language suitable for learners and
speakers of English.
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Now, let’s see the value for ELT.

7. Talk The Talk about (Value):
Three lists:
• On top: Expressions, language chunks, model sentences
at A1-A2 levels from CEFR (EU, 2001).
•In the middle: Expressions, lexical sets, idioms, with
language level suitable for CEFR A2-B1.
• At the bottom: Utterances, lexical units at a language level
compatible with CEFR B2-C1.
No context is provided. The following slides can give you ideas for
situations or topics as contexts in which to place the model expressions
found in this “Talk The Talk about (Value)” slide.
All of the above allows you to match the expressions to your
students’ current or target level, choose those relevant in
your case, and identify contexts to use them.
Ways to assist students in practicing this, next!
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8. Walk The Walk towards (Value)…
Along with children:
• Tasks, situations, exercises providing meaningful
contexts for young learners, easily adaptable to relate
to your context.
• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s pre-
conventional to conventional stages of moral
development (Kohlberg, 1969).
Teens can also walk this way by…
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9. Photo: Alan Browser / Flickr CC
Adults and professionals can go along!
Walk The Walk towards (Value)…
Along with teens:
• Tasks, situations, exercises providing meaningful
contexts for this demographic, easily adaptable to
relate to your context.
• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s
conventional to post-conventional stages of moral
development.

10. Photo: Mark Interrante / Flickr CC
A few tricks of the trade to make it happen, next!
Walk The Walk towards (Value)…
Along with young adults & adults or professionals:
• Tasks, situations, exercises providing meaningful
contexts for undergraduates and graduates, easily
adaptable to relate to your context.
• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s post-
conventional stage of moral development.

11. Cognitive: Strategies suitable for the value from
Piaget (1926-1962), Flavell (1979), O’Malley &
Chamot (1990) Gardner (1993), Ausubel (2000),
Jensen (2008) among others.
(Value) + ELT Strategies from
Cognitive, SLA, IT, or Other Nature
Second Language Acquisition: Exploring the language
for each value in the light of contributions by Krashen
(1982-2003), Lewis (1996), Crystal (1999), and the like.
CALL-ICT: Pinpointing techniques to practice each value from
concepts by Procter (2003), Graham (2005), Sharma (2007),
Klopfer et al. (2009), UNESCO (2011), and more.
Let’s see how all this connects across the curriculum.
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12. (Value), The Perfect Match for…
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Three boxes: One for Elementary School
subjects, another one for High School, and the
last one for Careers and ESP.
Each subject / career listed will suggest a specific idea
or topic related to each value. The purpose is to help
teachers intertwine the value with their syllabi, thus
avoiding distractions and optimizing planning.
The criteria for these cross-curricular links stem from
UNESCO (1998), the Common Core (2010), and local
curricula as standardized by national agencies.
Last but not least, inspiration!

13. Inspiration from (Value)
Anonymous proverbs
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Quotes from personalities
Passages from books that we all hold dear.
Our first value (next week): Perseverance

14. Values-Informed Disclosures
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SOURCES:
For style, clarity, and
brevity, no other
references will be made in
any monthly Value
presentation, as they are
stated herein.
CONTACT AND INQUIRIES:
For further info on the series, or its sources, author activities and related matters, or to make an
inquiry, please contactAndrés Ramos via SlideShare message, comment thread, or by clicking
the buttons of his other social media under (or to the left of) this presentation.
RIGHTS & CLEARANCES:
This series is available as Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Photo art has
been diligently secured from royalty-free sources and duly
attributed on each slide. If any rights have been inadvertedly
overlooked,Andrés Ramos will be pleased to make the
necessary arrangements at the earliest opportunity (see
Contact and Inquiries below).
ENTIRETY OF WORK:
Each monthly Value, this Introduction, and any future supplementary audio, video, text, image,
interactive resources or links stored in any form or service, constitute one single work for
authorship, moral rights, title, clearances, and other purposes hereof.
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15. Values for ELT
PERSEVERANCE
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Andrés Ramos
The first installment of this series, available at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-1-perseverance

16. Values for ELT
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Andrés Ramos
The second installment of this series, available at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-2-work
WORK

17. Values for ELT
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Andrés Ramos
The third installment of this series, available at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-3-initiative
INITIATIVE

18. Values for ELT
INTRODUCTION
AND FRAMEWORK
Photo: Claire Lau / Flickr CC
Andrés Ramos
Concepts supporting this series’ tips for values teaching