2. children´s creative use of limited language resources
1. TEACHING ENGLISH FOR
PRIMARY EDUCATION
1.2.Children´s creative use of limited language resources
Cecilia Maller, 2014
2. In early stages of mother tongue development Children (=ch.).
very creative with:
1. Concepts
2. Grammatical forms.
Ex.
1.Don´t unring? (= wait, hold on) ( knowledge of UN, as a
negative prefix).
2. Switch off the dark.
3. FUNDAMENTAL PHENOMENON TO
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT.
A. Creation of words by analogy.
B. Invention of new words.
It´s also present in people who are learning a L2.
4. IF THEY UNDERSTAND MESSAGE…
THEY UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE
To maintain this first source of understanding is fundamental part
of human communication.
Highly developed ability in primary for this, but difficult for them
to follow purely verbal instructions and info.
How do we know it´s not working? They get it wrong.
5. Ch. have interpreting skills ability to
understand messages.
That´s how they learn new words ,concepts and expressions in L1.
How do they learn a new lg.?
Ch. call on same skills to interpret new:
sounds, words and
structures.
6. WHAT TO DO TO SUPPORT
AND DEVELOP THIS?
Use: gestures, intonation, demonstration, actions, facial
expressions.
What for?
To convey meaning of what said.
8. WHAT IF A ? GRAMMATICAL
STRUCTURE IS ?
Different ways to convey meaning:
Make up new words-
Say words from their mother tongue in a foreign accent.
May produce temporarily inexact and inept lg.
manage to communicate
9. WHAT´S THIS?
A way to build up our grasp (= ability to understand a
complicated idea or situation, to take sth. and hold it firmly) of the lg.
We are building up our grasp of the lg.
Why?
We are actively recombining and constructing it for ourselves.
10. WHEN DOES THE
PHENOMENON APPEAR?
Always and naturally, when there´s need to communicate..
To make the most of the creative lg. Skill, we should provide
occasions where:
1. the urge to communicate makes ch. find some way of
expressing themselves.
11. 2. The lg. demanded by the activity is impredictable, it´s not only
asking to repeat set phrases, but is encouraging kids/ learners to
construct lg. Actively for themselves.
What can we do, then?
GAMES
Use
12. WHY GAMES?
They are fun
Create desire to communicate
Create unpredictability
Fun
elements
13. WHAT NOT TO FORGET…
Close T´s guidance should not be avoided, it´s also an important
partof learning.
Freer activities: give the chance to make mistakes.
Ch. are impatient to communicate, so…more not fewer mistakes.
14. WHAT DOES THE DESIRE TO
COMMUNICATE BRING?
Brings next capacity….
Which one?
Their aptitude for indirect learning
15. HOMEWORK
Read and summarize ( study)
1.3. Children´s capacity for indirect learning
Pgs. 5 and 6, Chapter 1. Teaching English in
the Primary Classroom