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DIDATTICA DISCIPLINARE DI
LINGUA INGLESE E
LABORATORIO DIDATTICO 3
 APPROCCI
 Cristiana Lancioni
lancionicristiana@gmail.com
CLIL
 CLIL lesson is not a language lesson
it is the subject matter which determines the language needed
to learn
 is not a content based language lesson
it is not merely content in FL/SL
 the lesson plan is language enhanced/language sensitive
 focus is on content, but learners are provided with
language support to reinforce the FL and to meet their
linguistic needs
CLIL
 Content → strategies for language learning
 OBJECTIVES (x 2) CONTENT explicit + LANGUAGE implicit
 4 language skills combined
Reading + Writing + Speaking + Listening
CLIL
 STT>TTT
 The teacher uses strategies to ensure that input is both rich
and accessible and that the learners have opportunities to
actively and authentically use the language.
CLIL
 Authentic activity, in a classroom setting, must have all the
characteristics of real activity created for real purposes in
real contexts. That is, it must be holistic and meaningful.
It places cognitive development and content, not FL
instruction, as the primary object of instruction. (S:8)
 RULE OF FORGETTING
CLIL
 Lesson must be interactive C.L.I.(+I.)L.
 Interpretation teacher>transmission teacher
 Develop communication skills → learner-learner interaction
should be encouraged
 task-based>IRF(→←→)
 Tasks (reasoning, problem-solving, collaborative and co-
operative learning opportunities) → 1. content 2.
developing language 3. different learning styles (visual/
auditory/kinesthetic/haptic)
CLIL
 Content - Progression in knowledge, skills and
understanding related to specific elements of a defined
curriculum
 Communication - Using language to learn whilst learning
to use language
 Cognition - Developing thinking skills which link concept
formation (abstract and concrete), understanding and
language
 Culture - Exposure to alternative perspectives and shared
understandings, which deepen awareness of otherness and
self.
Integrating Art History and
language learning
 ADVANTAGES: linguistic cognitive cultural
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 SPINA 1994
 There is a direct correspondence between the drawn
symbol and the written symbol. Graphic images are part of
a visual vocabulary which has intense personal meaning
to the child. There is a symbiotic relationship among
drawing, writing, reading, speaking, and listening. (Platt in
S:18)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 Information coded as artistic imagery has been shown to be
easily accessible in memory and perceptual processes,
including critical thinking and language comprehension,
rely heavily on imagery in mentally formulating and testing
hypotheses. (S:18)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
Neuropsychological studies
 It has been found that certain stroke patients who can
recognize objects but are unable to name them are able to
learn sign-language.
 Furthermore, the use of sign-language often helped the
patients recall the spoken names, as though the gestures
had linked knowledge to language through alternative
pathways. (S:20)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 One could argue, that engagement in artistic activity
should result in stronger, more diverse pathways to
language links in normal populations by maximizing
possible mediational outcomes between concepts and word
forms. (S:20)
 Arts-based curricula facilitate the transfer from
contextualized to decontextualized language: Academic
skills taught within the contextualized framework of an arts-
based curriculum can be then more easily transferred to
new contexts.
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
+ Stephen Krashen’s hypothesis of
the comprehensible input is a key
theoretical concept which describes
the use of the target language at a
level which can be broadly
understood by the learner, through
the use of support mechanisms.
(CP:4)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 Krashen demonstrated that comprehensibility of language
can be dramatically increased with the addition of extra-
linguistic information.
 An environment which supports SL acquisition through
non-linguistic as well as verbal means is much more typical
of learning outside of school, thus much more authentic.
(S:14)
 Non verbal exemplifications, descriptions and definitions
through images, realia and audio-visual means → CLIL
comprehensible input (redundancy) = Art History
didactics.
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
CRAIG AND PARAISO Research action study
The use of art in an ESL classroom
 lowered the affective filter
 contributed to a greater degree of comfort and proficiency
with the use of oral language skills
 let to improvement in student vocabulary and
communication skills
(CP:29)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 Affective filter: According to Krashen and Terrell (1988), it
contains all of the elements that prevent a child from
learning a new language. Situations, learning environments,
and other classroom factors that produce anxiety when
learning are considered aspects of the affective filter.
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 By eliminating these aspects, the second language-learning
environment becomes one that is non-threatening,
comforting and safe, ideal for learning.
 Perhaps one of the most important techniques used to
alleviate the affective filter is to remove the demand for
immediate language production and expression in the
new language.
 By removing the demand to immediately speak the FL,
students are given the opportunity to gain confidence and
to learn at their own pace without the pressures involved
in language production.
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 One way to assist in removing the demand to speak
immediately is to have students draw and create
illustrations and express themselves through art.
 Does free expression in the form of artwork assist in
alleviating the affective filter therefore promoting language
acquisition? (CP:17)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 As students were given opportunities to create drawings
and illustrations, they began interacting and discussing
the artwork. The use of vocabulary increased as they
shared with each other. (CP:21-23)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 Artwork was displayed around the classroom. This also
encouraged students to continue to create as well as
engage in dialogs and discussion regarding their work. The
natural flow of language used when describing their art
carried over to content area subject instruction and
language learning. (CP:18)
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 Students were eager to discuss their artwork and freely talked about what
they created. The personal voice that appeared during “art conversations”
was clear, strong, interesting, and proud. (CP:18)
 An increased proficiency in written English was observed as well, as
students began to either write or dictate their stories about their art in
English. As their sense of accomplishment increased, so did the children’s
self-confidence.
Art and FL/SL: Linguistic
effectiveness
 ⇝They began to expect and experience success in other
areas. Students—with encouragement to express
themselves through artwork—steadily progressed in all
areas of school.
 These immigrant children had begun to find their own
voice. (CP:21-23)
 Providing opportunities for free expression enabled the
students to share freely, thereby, developing individual
cultural voice. (CP:21)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Spina (1994) demonstrated how authentic art-based
education may be used in transcending limitations of
language, culture and experience that are not mainstream,
in order to use the cultural diversity in the classes as a
strength. (S:9)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 An authentic art-based approach allows for the broader
orientation of language proficiency as Saussure defined it:
the ability to communicate effectively in the tasks one
carries out, not in terms of grammatical or phonemic
correctness (measured against the practices of the
dominant group)
Just keep communication going
Robert J. Di Pietro
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Language-dependent communication of ideas and feelings
often leave SL learners frustrated over their inability to express
themselves and have that expression understood. (S:16)
 The varied opportunities for language use within another
symbol system for communication (the arts) serves to
alleviate anxiety in the language-dependent communicative
sphere. (S:16)
 Dewy (1934) and Langer (1942) located the cognitive power of
the arts in their ability to express ideas that defy conventional
language.
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Placing arts as a central part of the educational process the
notion of classroom discourse is expanded by extending
language to include cultural and social mediation,
offering a communication milieu that is accessible to
students who do not have proficiency in the predominant
language.
 Although cognizant of the importance of SL mastery, the
learner fears the loss of part of his/her self. Yet the school
must help the child adjust to and develop to his/her fullest
potential in the larger, new society. (S:25)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Conducting communication in a SL can be an integrating
force without becoming a forced assimilation by
providing cultural reinforcement through the arts to
compensate for that no longer reinforced through
language. (S:25)
 This allows the child to acclimate to the new culture
without having to reject the old and lessens the trauma of
changing one’s language and thus one’s mediational
resource.
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
Arts-based education teaches us
 about our capacity to communicate ideas and feelings in a
variety of modes and media (not just language)
 to analyze data through analogy and illustration
 to accept compromise, ambiguity, and difference as positive
human traits
 to construct ethical standards of judgment and action (S:17)
The arts teach respect for multiple perspectives, imagination,
and interpretation; and that solutions to problems can take
many forms. (S:24)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
Art history interacts with the students social and personal
identities. (S:25)
 Personal interpretation : personal background: motivation
 Teachers learn about students’ background and cultural
identity and —equipped with information—are better able
to meet the needs of students
case
 […] Knowing that they were not going to be judged for the
imagery contained in their artwork, the children began to
talk freely about the stories they represented by their
creations. One boy who frequently drew gang symbols
explained that he saw those images when he lived in Miami
and that he missed living in Miami. What some may have
misinterpreted as gang involvement was to this child
merely a longing for his home. (CP:22)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 CLOSER TO SL CULTURE Writing about a successful art
appreciation course offered by Temple University to ESL
students, Preece (1996) advocated integrating art and
architecture tours into ESL programs as a way to teach
language and introduce students to the second language
culture.
 He concluded that the tours of major art collections in
Philadelphia provided students with a wider variety of
“experiences to reflect upon, to share, and to exploit the
cultural and linguistic environment” (Ic:7).
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
Preece (I:7) cautioned about adequate instructional preparation
for this activity and proposed several models for bringing
the arts into ESL curriculum:
1. University-level art appreciation courses (for advanced
students)
2. Sheltered, ESL-only elective courses, including studio art
classes (for all levels)
3. Content-based courses, preparatory for a credit-earning
required non-ESL art course (advanced level)
4. Segments within existing ESL classes (all levels)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 L1 ART PEDAGOGICAL TOOL In teaching a SL one can use
the students’ cultural heritage which their first language
embodies (their art history for example) as a pedagogical
tool in teaching SL.
 For language minority learners, both in schools and
colleges, who often end up with limited knowledge of and
conflicting loyalties to L1 and L2 cultures, learning about
their L1 culture can help foster their sense of pride in their
roots and affirm their emerging identities in L2 society.
 Igoudin’s study suggests the following benefits of including
L1 art history in SL education:
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Incorporating elements of students’ cultural heritage into
L2 curriculum signals respect for their backgrounds and
validates their identities.
 Topics related to students’ cultural experience, […] may
elicit more interest among students and produce a richer
L2 output than those that don’t.
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Interaction with the L1 culture can engage advanced
language learners in the development of higher-level
critical thinking skills.
 Critical examination of diverse L1 cultures present in L2
learning contexts facilitates student development into
plurilingual world citizens who are pluriculturally
aware.
 Pluricultural pedagogical activities can teach
interculturality, be instructionally meaningful, but also
remain enjoyable to students. (I:28)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 COGNITIVE EFFECTIVNESS Spina compared 2 ESL classes:
arts-based curriculum > traditional ESL methods
Arts-based curriculum provides significant advantages to ESL
students by building on the cognitive strengths inherent in
bilingualism (I:2)
 Because there is more ambiguity in a visual or artistic
statement than a verbal statement, in the sense that a
painting, for example, leaves us with more alternatives for
meaning, it offers a wider choice of elements from which to
extract information and provides us with more opportunity
for inquiry.
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
This “artistic” thinking reflects the cognitive advantage of
bilingual persons.
 Persons who have been uprooted from traditional
cultures, or who have been thoroughly exposed to two or
more cultures, seem to have the advantage in the range of
hypotheses they are apt to consider, and through this
means, in the frequency of creative innovation. (S:21)
Art and FL/SL: Cultural and
Cognitive effectiveness
 Spina noted that the semiotic richness of the arts echoes
the semiotic abundance available to speakers of more than
one language, nurturing an ability to approach
symbolization in a creative, nuanced way.
Art and FL/SL: Practice
PLANNING A CLIL UNIT Coonan (2002)
Promote L (Comprehensible Input Avoid L Problems Maximize
output)
All teachers are teachers of language
 Does an Art History program have language objectives?
 What activities are normally used in Art History didactics? Can
they be exploited for language teaching?
 What ways of evaluation are normally used in Art History?
 What linguistic genres and what kind of texts are typical of Art
History?
Art and FL/SL: Practice
American National Standards Italian ‘programmazione’
 Q 1 Students will develop strong writing skills when
describing, analyzing, and comparing works of art.
 To meet the standards, students must learn vocabularies
and concepts associated with various types of work in the
visual arts and must exhibit their competence at various
levels in visual, oral, and written form.
Art and FL/SL: Practice
 Lo studio della Storia dell’Arte deve porsi l’obiettivo di
sviluppare le capacità linguistiche e logiche sottese alla
comprensione dei fenomeni artistici. Nel primo caso appare
indispensabile impadronirsi del linguaggio specifico che
anche la Storia dell’Arte, come tutte le altre discipline, possiede.
Ciò tuttavia non risulta sempre sufficiente, in quanto la capacità
di descrivere e dialogare intorno all’arte richiede un possesso
lessicale ampio ed articolato. Nel caso dello sviluppo delle
capacità logiche, esse non solo appaiono connesse con il
corretto utilizzo della lingua, ma specificamente, per ciò che
riguarda la Storia dell’Arte, vanno indirizzate alla comprensione
di due fondamentali processi logici: arte come
rappresentazione […e] arte come comunicazione.
Art and FL/SL: Practice
 LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVES OF ART HISTORY Promotion:
specific vocabulary ACTIVITIES: visually-aided activities, such
as matching word and picture, or word picture and
definition, crossword with pictures instead of/in addition to
definitions, matching word and definition; cloze texts;
crossword; odd man out; multiple choice (find the right
definition); fill in the blanks (write the right term for each
definition)
 FRAMES presentations and essays (provide learners with the
structure of a painting analysis, the language and the
common expressions used)
Art and FL/SL: Practice
 Q 2 3 Students are required to read approximately one chapter
per week from their primary textbook as well as complete
supplemental readings from Web sites, articles, and other
texts
 Videos are also shown to supplement the textbook, which
students are required to take notes on to prepare for a short
quiz the following class period.
 Students will complete an analysis graphic organizer for 4–6
artworks per chapter. The graphic organizers include the
following information for each artwork: identification,
period/culture, subject/iconography, style/technique,
significance/function/purpose (includes social, political, and
religious values of the culture; patronage; art
historical/historical significance).
Art and FL/SL: Practice
 Students will also complete comparative graphic
organizers to make connections between artworks of the
same period/culture as well as to other periods/cultures.
 Discussions based on reading assignments. Students will
often work in small groups to come up with solutions to
problems posed by the teacher, or participate in a
game/activity to reiterate learning. Some of these activities
include:
Art and FL/SL: Practice
1. Artist/Artwork Speed Dating (students take on the
characteristics of an artist/artwork and introduce themselves
to each other)
2. Dominoes (students align images of artworks domino-style
to make conceptual and visual connections among artworks)
3. Visual Descriptions (students work in small groups to try to
come up with the most complete visual description of an
artwork in the class)
 Students will be given pop quizzes on reading assignments, as
well as an extensive exam at the end of each chapter/unit
(these include multiple choice, short-answer, and slide
questions, as well as essays)
Art and FL/SL: Practice
 Nel momento delle spiegazioni è indispensabile ricorre a
schemi precisi, a mappe concettuali, anche con il ricorso a
grafici o diagrammi, o quanto altro può sintetizzare
visivamente i concetti e gli argomenti spiegati […]
presentazione delle opere da effettuarsi con il ricorso al
più ampio materiale iconografico possibile. […] l’attività
di studio, da svolgersi a casa, deve consistere nel leggere e
nello scrivere, non nel leggere e nel ripetere. […] In tal caso
compito dell’insegnante è di fornire il progetto-
“scaletta”, ovvero la successione logica degli argomenti sui
quali gli studenti devono esercitarsi a scrivere, nonché il
metodo, che deve consistere nell’abbinare sempre parte
scritta e parte illustrativa
Art and FL/SL: Practice
Art activities that promote Language skills
CLIL language sensitive (input/output)
 use pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading activities
 present visually-aided texts (accompanied by illustrations so
that learners can visualize what they are reading)
 use further structural markers in texts. These markers may
be linguistic (headings, sub-headings) and/or diagrammatic,
visually-based texts.
Further ideas for the classroom:
(Adapted from Lane Igoudin’s material (Ia), ESL Instructor and
assistant Professor, Los Angeles City College)
 Speech presentation (individual or group)
 Practice language skills through oral presentation of their
paintings to the group, pointing out elements of art or
principles of design and describing narrative (providing a
guide to follow and common phrases used)
 Writing assignment: Practice language skills while
describing artwork (providing a guide to follow and
common phrases used)
writing topics to be used in
paragraph or essay assignments
 Using narrative art vocabulary, describe the story contained
in the [title] painting and the visual details which support it.
 Describe the relationship between the different characters in
the [title] painting.
 Describe the life of [artist’s name] as seen through his/her
self-portrait.
 Describe the life of [person’s name] as seen through his/her
portrait by [artist’s name].
writing topics to be used in
paragraph or essay assignments
 Compare or contrast two Italian artists
 Compare or contrast an Italian artist and an artist from your
native country (or region).
 Using appropriate art vocabulary, compare or contrast the
following two works of art: [titles].
writing topics to be used in
paragraph or essay assignments
 Some of these topics can be also used for individual or
group presentation assignments in oral skills classes.
 REMEMBER Addition of visual aids would enliven such
presentations and make them more interesting and
accessible to the audience.
Further ideas are:
 Field trip
 Internet research related to the topic (providing a frame)
 On-site workshop at the museum
Lesson plan
An example
Tips for Teaching about Narrative Art
Narrative works allow students to act as detectives and figure
out what’s happening in the pictures. Many images tell a
specific story, be it a myth, a religious parable, or a well-
known fable or tale. Others tell stories that may not be so
obvious, leaving the viewer to use his or her own
imagination to decipher them
General questions looking at
narrative art:
 What do you think is happening in this work of art?
 What do you see that makes you say that?
 Who do you think is the main character of this story?
 Do you recognize any of the characters? If so, how?
 What can we say about these characters?
 Describe the relationship between the different characters.
 Describe the setting.
 What time of day is it?
 What season is it?
 Where does this scene take place?
 What do you think happened ten minutes before this scene?
 What do you think will happen ten minutes later?
Lesson
 Grades/Level: Adult Learners [B2]
 Subjects: Visual Arts, English–Language Arts, ESL [Art History
and English]
 Time Required: Single Class Lesson; 30–45 minutes
 Lesson Overview: Students discover how visual artists
represent a story by depicting a single moment from it.
 Learning Objectives: Students explain how visual artists and
writers represent the same story in different ways and use
narrative art vocabulary to describe an image and the moment
it represents in the story. CLIL ≠ content-based
 [Language Objectives]: Improve listening and speaking skills
(BICS and CALP)
Students will listen to a myth and discuss a painting
Materials:
Two narrative images (Venus and Adonis and Pluto Abducting
Proserpine)
Lesson Steps
• Begin with the following questions:
 Why do we tell stories? How do we learn about stories? Are
they always truthful?
• Explain to students that they are going to look at an image
that illustrates an ancient Greek myth.
 Ask students if they can name any myth they may have
heard. Review the Narrative Art Vocabulary.
• If the students are going to look at Venus…, ask them to
imagine what the goddess of love and beauty would look
like. For Pluto…, ask how students would imagine the god of
the underworld, ruler of the dead.
Lesson Steps
• Write down the words they use to describe the goddess or
god.
• Explain to students that they will look at how the artist
imagined gods in the year the image was made.
• Before displaying the image, read students the related story.
Ask them which moment in the story they would choose to
portray in a picture.
• Display the image.
Materials:
Two narrative images (Venus and Adonis and Pluto Abducting
Proserpine)
Lesson Steps
 Discussion Questions
• What moment in the story has this artist chosen to portray?
• What is happening at this moment?
• How does the artist help us understand this moment in the
story?
PLENARY DISCUSSION
GROUP DISCUSSION
FRAME FOR INDIVIDUAL/GROUP PRESENTATION
TASK BASED LEARNING
‘The more confidently you can answer yes to each of these
questions, the more task-like the activity.
 Will the activity engage learners' interest?
 Is there a primary focus on meaning?
 Is there a goal or an outcome?
 Is success judged in terms of outcome?
 Is completion a priority?
 Does the activity relate to real world activities?'
IS IT A TASK?
Work in pairs. Talk about your grandparents.
Tell each other what you know about their past lives.
Use the phrases and patterns from the box above.
 Try to find out three things that your grandparents' and your
partner's grandparents' lives had in common. What was the
biggest difference between them?
 Decide which one of your partner's grandparents was / is the
most interesting person and give two reasons why you think so.
Then tell the class about him/her and vote to decide on the
three most interesting grandparents in the class.
 Describe two early memories you have of one particular
grandparent. Tell your group. Take notes when listening to each
other.
 Listing and/or brainstorming
You can list people, places, things, actions, reasons,
everyday problems, things to do in various circumstances
etc.
 Examples:
(1) In pairs, agree on a list of four or five people who were
famous in the 20th century and give at least one reason for
including each person.
(2) Can you remember your partner’s busiest day? On your
own, make a list of all the things he/she did. Then check
with your partner. Were there any things you forgot?
 Ordering and sorting
This can be sequencing, ranking, or classifying.
 Examples:
(3) In pairs, look at your list of famous people. Which people
are most likely to remain popular and become 20th century
icons? Rank them from most popular to least popular, and
be prepared to justify your order to another pair.
(4) Look at the four pictures. They are mixed up. Work in pairs.
Put the four pictures in a sequence so that they tell a story.
Prepare to tell your story to another pair.
 Matching
You can match captions / texts / recorded extracts to pictures;
short notes or headlines to longer texts, e.g. news items.
 Examples:
(5) Read the texts – each is about a famous person but the person
is not named - and look at the photos. Match each text to a
photo. Then talk to your partner, and say how you were able to
match them. Prepare to tell the class how you did it.
(6) Read the four headlines A to D. Match two pieces of information
(given in 1-8 below) to each headline. Explain to your partner
how you did this. What clues did you find? Did you both use
the same clues?
 Pre-task (15-20min)
Aim: To introduce the topic of nights out and to give the
class exposure to language related to it. To highlight words
and phrases.
 Show sts pictures of a night out in a restaurant / bar and ask
them where they go to have a good night out.
 Brainstorm words/phrases onto the board related to the
topic: people / verbs / feelings etc.
 Introduce the listening of two people planning a night out.
Write up different alternatives on the board to give them a
reason for listening e.g. (a) restaurant / bar (b) meet at the
train station / in the square. Play it a few times, first time to
select from the alternatives, second time to note down
some language.
 Tell them that they are going to plan a class night out and
give them a few minutes to think it over.
Task (10min)
 Students do the task in twos and plan the night. Match
them with another pair to discuss their ideas and any
similarities and differences.
Planning (10min)
 Each pair rehearses presenting their night out. Teacher walks
around, helps them if they need it and notes down any
language points to be highlighted later.
Report (15 min)
 Class listen to the plans, their task is to choose one of them.
They can ask questions after the presentation.
 Teacher gives feedback on the content and quickly reviews
what was suggested. Students vote and choose one of the
nights out.
Language Focus (20min)
 Write on the board five good phrases used by the students
during the task and five incorrect phrases/sentences from the
task without the word that caused the problem. Students
discuss the meaning and how to complete the sentences.
 Hand out the tapescript from the listening and ask the students
to underline the useful words and phrases.
 Highlight any language you wish to draw attention to e.g.
language for making suggestions, collocations etc.
 Students write down any other language they wish to
remember.
LEXICAL APPROACH
 The principles of the Lexical Approach have [been around]
since Michael Lewis published 'The Lexical Approach' [10
years ago]. [It seems, however, that] many teachers and
researchers do not [have a clear idea of] what the Lexical
Approach actually [looks like] [in practice].
All the parts in brackets are fixed or set phrases. Different
commentators use different and overlapping terms -
'prefabricated phrases', 'lexical phrases', 'formulaic
language', 'frozen and semi-frozen phrases', are just some
of these terms. We use just two: 'lexical chunks' and
'collocations'.
 Lexical Chunks (that are not collocations)
by the way
up to now
upside down
If I were you
a long way off
out of my mind
 Lexical Chunks (that are collocations)
totally convinced
strong accent
terrible accident
sense of humour
sounds exciting
brings good luck
 In recent years it has been recognised both that native
speakers have a vast stock of these lexical chunks and that
these lexical chunks are vital for fluent production. Fluency
does not depend so much on having a set of generative
grammar rules and a separate stock of words - the 'slot and
filler' or open choice principle - as on having rapid access to
a stock of chunks.
 "Language is grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised
grammar" (Lewis 1993)
 we should spend more time helping learners develop their
stock of phrases, and less time on grammatical structures.
 studi su come la lingua è usata da chi parla e da chi scrive in
testi quotidiani e autentici.
 L’approccio basato sui corpora ha indicato un modo
efficiente per indagare sull’uso della lingua ed ha, allo
stesso tempo, favorito lo sviluppo di nuove ricerche
fornendo una
nuova prospettiva all’insegnamento.
 Un corpus è una selezione molto ampia e sistematizzata di testi
naturali, ovvero autentici, o di espressioni rappresentative di
una lingua, raccolta in un database elettronico e utilizzata per
effettuare analisi di tipo linguistico.
 Un programma di concordanza è un programma informatico
che, applicato a un testo o a un corpus, consente di ottenere
una concordanza delle sue parole.
 Nel prospetto che si ottiene con tale programma le parole del
testo sono elencate in ordine alfabetico al centro dello
schermo, e ogni esempio di occorrenza di una parola è
preceduto e seguito dal suo immediato contesto
 Ciò può sollecitare la riflessione di chi apprende sull’uso
reale della lingua, sulle più probabili occorrenze della lingua
d’uso, sulle collocazioni più frequenti, anziché limitarsi ad
indicare come e quando alcune espressioni devono essere
usate.
 lo studente = ricercatore della lingua, cominciando così a
formulare ipotesi e a verificarle sulla base dei dati forniti dai
corpora con un approccio pedagogico legato alla scoperta
personale. Anziché fornire esempi artificiali, la lingua viene
insegnata
esponendo gli allievi alle sue reali occorrenze.

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CristianaLancioni_English_Education_LESSON3_APPROCCI.pptx

  • 1. DIDATTICA DISCIPLINARE DI LINGUA INGLESE E LABORATORIO DIDATTICO 3  APPROCCI  Cristiana Lancioni lancionicristiana@gmail.com
  • 2. CLIL  CLIL lesson is not a language lesson it is the subject matter which determines the language needed to learn  is not a content based language lesson it is not merely content in FL/SL  the lesson plan is language enhanced/language sensitive  focus is on content, but learners are provided with language support to reinforce the FL and to meet their linguistic needs
  • 3. CLIL  Content → strategies for language learning  OBJECTIVES (x 2) CONTENT explicit + LANGUAGE implicit  4 language skills combined Reading + Writing + Speaking + Listening
  • 4. CLIL  STT>TTT  The teacher uses strategies to ensure that input is both rich and accessible and that the learners have opportunities to actively and authentically use the language.
  • 5. CLIL  Authentic activity, in a classroom setting, must have all the characteristics of real activity created for real purposes in real contexts. That is, it must be holistic and meaningful. It places cognitive development and content, not FL instruction, as the primary object of instruction. (S:8)  RULE OF FORGETTING
  • 6. CLIL  Lesson must be interactive C.L.I.(+I.)L.  Interpretation teacher>transmission teacher  Develop communication skills → learner-learner interaction should be encouraged  task-based>IRF(→←→)  Tasks (reasoning, problem-solving, collaborative and co- operative learning opportunities) → 1. content 2. developing language 3. different learning styles (visual/ auditory/kinesthetic/haptic)
  • 7. CLIL  Content - Progression in knowledge, skills and understanding related to specific elements of a defined curriculum  Communication - Using language to learn whilst learning to use language  Cognition - Developing thinking skills which link concept formation (abstract and concrete), understanding and language  Culture - Exposure to alternative perspectives and shared understandings, which deepen awareness of otherness and self.
  • 8. Integrating Art History and language learning  ADVANTAGES: linguistic cognitive cultural
  • 9. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  SPINA 1994  There is a direct correspondence between the drawn symbol and the written symbol. Graphic images are part of a visual vocabulary which has intense personal meaning to the child. There is a symbiotic relationship among drawing, writing, reading, speaking, and listening. (Platt in S:18)
  • 10. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  Information coded as artistic imagery has been shown to be easily accessible in memory and perceptual processes, including critical thinking and language comprehension, rely heavily on imagery in mentally formulating and testing hypotheses. (S:18)
  • 11. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness Neuropsychological studies  It has been found that certain stroke patients who can recognize objects but are unable to name them are able to learn sign-language.  Furthermore, the use of sign-language often helped the patients recall the spoken names, as though the gestures had linked knowledge to language through alternative pathways. (S:20)
  • 12. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  One could argue, that engagement in artistic activity should result in stronger, more diverse pathways to language links in normal populations by maximizing possible mediational outcomes between concepts and word forms. (S:20)  Arts-based curricula facilitate the transfer from contextualized to decontextualized language: Academic skills taught within the contextualized framework of an arts- based curriculum can be then more easily transferred to new contexts.
  • 13. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness + Stephen Krashen’s hypothesis of the comprehensible input is a key theoretical concept which describes the use of the target language at a level which can be broadly understood by the learner, through the use of support mechanisms. (CP:4)
  • 14. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  Krashen demonstrated that comprehensibility of language can be dramatically increased with the addition of extra- linguistic information.  An environment which supports SL acquisition through non-linguistic as well as verbal means is much more typical of learning outside of school, thus much more authentic. (S:14)  Non verbal exemplifications, descriptions and definitions through images, realia and audio-visual means → CLIL comprehensible input (redundancy) = Art History didactics.
  • 15. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness CRAIG AND PARAISO Research action study The use of art in an ESL classroom  lowered the affective filter  contributed to a greater degree of comfort and proficiency with the use of oral language skills  let to improvement in student vocabulary and communication skills (CP:29)
  • 16. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  Affective filter: According to Krashen and Terrell (1988), it contains all of the elements that prevent a child from learning a new language. Situations, learning environments, and other classroom factors that produce anxiety when learning are considered aspects of the affective filter.
  • 17. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  By eliminating these aspects, the second language-learning environment becomes one that is non-threatening, comforting and safe, ideal for learning.  Perhaps one of the most important techniques used to alleviate the affective filter is to remove the demand for immediate language production and expression in the new language.  By removing the demand to immediately speak the FL, students are given the opportunity to gain confidence and to learn at their own pace without the pressures involved in language production.
  • 18. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  One way to assist in removing the demand to speak immediately is to have students draw and create illustrations and express themselves through art.  Does free expression in the form of artwork assist in alleviating the affective filter therefore promoting language acquisition? (CP:17)
  • 19. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  As students were given opportunities to create drawings and illustrations, they began interacting and discussing the artwork. The use of vocabulary increased as they shared with each other. (CP:21-23)
  • 20. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  Artwork was displayed around the classroom. This also encouraged students to continue to create as well as engage in dialogs and discussion regarding their work. The natural flow of language used when describing their art carried over to content area subject instruction and language learning. (CP:18)
  • 21. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  Students were eager to discuss their artwork and freely talked about what they created. The personal voice that appeared during “art conversations” was clear, strong, interesting, and proud. (CP:18)  An increased proficiency in written English was observed as well, as students began to either write or dictate their stories about their art in English. As their sense of accomplishment increased, so did the children’s self-confidence.
  • 22. Art and FL/SL: Linguistic effectiveness  ⇝They began to expect and experience success in other areas. Students—with encouragement to express themselves through artwork—steadily progressed in all areas of school.  These immigrant children had begun to find their own voice. (CP:21-23)  Providing opportunities for free expression enabled the students to share freely, thereby, developing individual cultural voice. (CP:21)
  • 23. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Spina (1994) demonstrated how authentic art-based education may be used in transcending limitations of language, culture and experience that are not mainstream, in order to use the cultural diversity in the classes as a strength. (S:9)
  • 24. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  An authentic art-based approach allows for the broader orientation of language proficiency as Saussure defined it: the ability to communicate effectively in the tasks one carries out, not in terms of grammatical or phonemic correctness (measured against the practices of the dominant group) Just keep communication going Robert J. Di Pietro
  • 25. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Language-dependent communication of ideas and feelings often leave SL learners frustrated over their inability to express themselves and have that expression understood. (S:16)  The varied opportunities for language use within another symbol system for communication (the arts) serves to alleviate anxiety in the language-dependent communicative sphere. (S:16)  Dewy (1934) and Langer (1942) located the cognitive power of the arts in their ability to express ideas that defy conventional language.
  • 26. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Placing arts as a central part of the educational process the notion of classroom discourse is expanded by extending language to include cultural and social mediation, offering a communication milieu that is accessible to students who do not have proficiency in the predominant language.  Although cognizant of the importance of SL mastery, the learner fears the loss of part of his/her self. Yet the school must help the child adjust to and develop to his/her fullest potential in the larger, new society. (S:25)
  • 27. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Conducting communication in a SL can be an integrating force without becoming a forced assimilation by providing cultural reinforcement through the arts to compensate for that no longer reinforced through language. (S:25)  This allows the child to acclimate to the new culture without having to reject the old and lessens the trauma of changing one’s language and thus one’s mediational resource.
  • 28. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness Arts-based education teaches us  about our capacity to communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of modes and media (not just language)  to analyze data through analogy and illustration  to accept compromise, ambiguity, and difference as positive human traits  to construct ethical standards of judgment and action (S:17) The arts teach respect for multiple perspectives, imagination, and interpretation; and that solutions to problems can take many forms. (S:24)
  • 29. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness Art history interacts with the students social and personal identities. (S:25)  Personal interpretation : personal background: motivation  Teachers learn about students’ background and cultural identity and —equipped with information—are better able to meet the needs of students
  • 30. case  […] Knowing that they were not going to be judged for the imagery contained in their artwork, the children began to talk freely about the stories they represented by their creations. One boy who frequently drew gang symbols explained that he saw those images when he lived in Miami and that he missed living in Miami. What some may have misinterpreted as gang involvement was to this child merely a longing for his home. (CP:22)
  • 31. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  CLOSER TO SL CULTURE Writing about a successful art appreciation course offered by Temple University to ESL students, Preece (1996) advocated integrating art and architecture tours into ESL programs as a way to teach language and introduce students to the second language culture.  He concluded that the tours of major art collections in Philadelphia provided students with a wider variety of “experiences to reflect upon, to share, and to exploit the cultural and linguistic environment” (Ic:7).
  • 32. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness Preece (I:7) cautioned about adequate instructional preparation for this activity and proposed several models for bringing the arts into ESL curriculum: 1. University-level art appreciation courses (for advanced students) 2. Sheltered, ESL-only elective courses, including studio art classes (for all levels) 3. Content-based courses, preparatory for a credit-earning required non-ESL art course (advanced level) 4. Segments within existing ESL classes (all levels)
  • 33. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  L1 ART PEDAGOGICAL TOOL In teaching a SL one can use the students’ cultural heritage which their first language embodies (their art history for example) as a pedagogical tool in teaching SL.  For language minority learners, both in schools and colleges, who often end up with limited knowledge of and conflicting loyalties to L1 and L2 cultures, learning about their L1 culture can help foster their sense of pride in their roots and affirm their emerging identities in L2 society.  Igoudin’s study suggests the following benefits of including L1 art history in SL education:
  • 34. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Incorporating elements of students’ cultural heritage into L2 curriculum signals respect for their backgrounds and validates their identities.  Topics related to students’ cultural experience, […] may elicit more interest among students and produce a richer L2 output than those that don’t.
  • 35. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Interaction with the L1 culture can engage advanced language learners in the development of higher-level critical thinking skills.  Critical examination of diverse L1 cultures present in L2 learning contexts facilitates student development into plurilingual world citizens who are pluriculturally aware.  Pluricultural pedagogical activities can teach interculturality, be instructionally meaningful, but also remain enjoyable to students. (I:28)
  • 36. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  COGNITIVE EFFECTIVNESS Spina compared 2 ESL classes: arts-based curriculum > traditional ESL methods Arts-based curriculum provides significant advantages to ESL students by building on the cognitive strengths inherent in bilingualism (I:2)  Because there is more ambiguity in a visual or artistic statement than a verbal statement, in the sense that a painting, for example, leaves us with more alternatives for meaning, it offers a wider choice of elements from which to extract information and provides us with more opportunity for inquiry.
  • 37. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness This “artistic” thinking reflects the cognitive advantage of bilingual persons.  Persons who have been uprooted from traditional cultures, or who have been thoroughly exposed to two or more cultures, seem to have the advantage in the range of hypotheses they are apt to consider, and through this means, in the frequency of creative innovation. (S:21)
  • 38. Art and FL/SL: Cultural and Cognitive effectiveness  Spina noted that the semiotic richness of the arts echoes the semiotic abundance available to speakers of more than one language, nurturing an ability to approach symbolization in a creative, nuanced way.
  • 39. Art and FL/SL: Practice PLANNING A CLIL UNIT Coonan (2002) Promote L (Comprehensible Input Avoid L Problems Maximize output) All teachers are teachers of language  Does an Art History program have language objectives?  What activities are normally used in Art History didactics? Can they be exploited for language teaching?  What ways of evaluation are normally used in Art History?  What linguistic genres and what kind of texts are typical of Art History?
  • 40. Art and FL/SL: Practice American National Standards Italian ‘programmazione’  Q 1 Students will develop strong writing skills when describing, analyzing, and comparing works of art.  To meet the standards, students must learn vocabularies and concepts associated with various types of work in the visual arts and must exhibit their competence at various levels in visual, oral, and written form.
  • 41. Art and FL/SL: Practice  Lo studio della Storia dell’Arte deve porsi l’obiettivo di sviluppare le capacità linguistiche e logiche sottese alla comprensione dei fenomeni artistici. Nel primo caso appare indispensabile impadronirsi del linguaggio specifico che anche la Storia dell’Arte, come tutte le altre discipline, possiede. Ciò tuttavia non risulta sempre sufficiente, in quanto la capacità di descrivere e dialogare intorno all’arte richiede un possesso lessicale ampio ed articolato. Nel caso dello sviluppo delle capacità logiche, esse non solo appaiono connesse con il corretto utilizzo della lingua, ma specificamente, per ciò che riguarda la Storia dell’Arte, vanno indirizzate alla comprensione di due fondamentali processi logici: arte come rappresentazione […e] arte come comunicazione.
  • 42. Art and FL/SL: Practice  LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVES OF ART HISTORY Promotion: specific vocabulary ACTIVITIES: visually-aided activities, such as matching word and picture, or word picture and definition, crossword with pictures instead of/in addition to definitions, matching word and definition; cloze texts; crossword; odd man out; multiple choice (find the right definition); fill in the blanks (write the right term for each definition)  FRAMES presentations and essays (provide learners with the structure of a painting analysis, the language and the common expressions used)
  • 43. Art and FL/SL: Practice  Q 2 3 Students are required to read approximately one chapter per week from their primary textbook as well as complete supplemental readings from Web sites, articles, and other texts  Videos are also shown to supplement the textbook, which students are required to take notes on to prepare for a short quiz the following class period.  Students will complete an analysis graphic organizer for 4–6 artworks per chapter. The graphic organizers include the following information for each artwork: identification, period/culture, subject/iconography, style/technique, significance/function/purpose (includes social, political, and religious values of the culture; patronage; art historical/historical significance).
  • 44. Art and FL/SL: Practice  Students will also complete comparative graphic organizers to make connections between artworks of the same period/culture as well as to other periods/cultures.  Discussions based on reading assignments. Students will often work in small groups to come up with solutions to problems posed by the teacher, or participate in a game/activity to reiterate learning. Some of these activities include:
  • 45. Art and FL/SL: Practice 1. Artist/Artwork Speed Dating (students take on the characteristics of an artist/artwork and introduce themselves to each other) 2. Dominoes (students align images of artworks domino-style to make conceptual and visual connections among artworks) 3. Visual Descriptions (students work in small groups to try to come up with the most complete visual description of an artwork in the class)  Students will be given pop quizzes on reading assignments, as well as an extensive exam at the end of each chapter/unit (these include multiple choice, short-answer, and slide questions, as well as essays)
  • 46. Art and FL/SL: Practice  Nel momento delle spiegazioni è indispensabile ricorre a schemi precisi, a mappe concettuali, anche con il ricorso a grafici o diagrammi, o quanto altro può sintetizzare visivamente i concetti e gli argomenti spiegati […] presentazione delle opere da effettuarsi con il ricorso al più ampio materiale iconografico possibile. […] l’attività di studio, da svolgersi a casa, deve consistere nel leggere e nello scrivere, non nel leggere e nel ripetere. […] In tal caso compito dell’insegnante è di fornire il progetto- “scaletta”, ovvero la successione logica degli argomenti sui quali gli studenti devono esercitarsi a scrivere, nonché il metodo, che deve consistere nell’abbinare sempre parte scritta e parte illustrativa
  • 47. Art and FL/SL: Practice Art activities that promote Language skills CLIL language sensitive (input/output)  use pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading activities  present visually-aided texts (accompanied by illustrations so that learners can visualize what they are reading)  use further structural markers in texts. These markers may be linguistic (headings, sub-headings) and/or diagrammatic, visually-based texts.
  • 48. Further ideas for the classroom: (Adapted from Lane Igoudin’s material (Ia), ESL Instructor and assistant Professor, Los Angeles City College)  Speech presentation (individual or group)  Practice language skills through oral presentation of their paintings to the group, pointing out elements of art or principles of design and describing narrative (providing a guide to follow and common phrases used)  Writing assignment: Practice language skills while describing artwork (providing a guide to follow and common phrases used)
  • 49. writing topics to be used in paragraph or essay assignments  Using narrative art vocabulary, describe the story contained in the [title] painting and the visual details which support it.  Describe the relationship between the different characters in the [title] painting.  Describe the life of [artist’s name] as seen through his/her self-portrait.  Describe the life of [person’s name] as seen through his/her portrait by [artist’s name].
  • 50. writing topics to be used in paragraph or essay assignments  Compare or contrast two Italian artists  Compare or contrast an Italian artist and an artist from your native country (or region).  Using appropriate art vocabulary, compare or contrast the following two works of art: [titles].
  • 51. writing topics to be used in paragraph or essay assignments  Some of these topics can be also used for individual or group presentation assignments in oral skills classes.  REMEMBER Addition of visual aids would enliven such presentations and make them more interesting and accessible to the audience.
  • 52. Further ideas are:  Field trip  Internet research related to the topic (providing a frame)  On-site workshop at the museum
  • 53. Lesson plan An example Tips for Teaching about Narrative Art Narrative works allow students to act as detectives and figure out what’s happening in the pictures. Many images tell a specific story, be it a myth, a religious parable, or a well- known fable or tale. Others tell stories that may not be so obvious, leaving the viewer to use his or her own imagination to decipher them
  • 54. General questions looking at narrative art:  What do you think is happening in this work of art?  What do you see that makes you say that?  Who do you think is the main character of this story?  Do you recognize any of the characters? If so, how?  What can we say about these characters?  Describe the relationship between the different characters.  Describe the setting.  What time of day is it?  What season is it?  Where does this scene take place?  What do you think happened ten minutes before this scene?  What do you think will happen ten minutes later?
  • 55. Lesson  Grades/Level: Adult Learners [B2]  Subjects: Visual Arts, English–Language Arts, ESL [Art History and English]  Time Required: Single Class Lesson; 30–45 minutes  Lesson Overview: Students discover how visual artists represent a story by depicting a single moment from it.  Learning Objectives: Students explain how visual artists and writers represent the same story in different ways and use narrative art vocabulary to describe an image and the moment it represents in the story. CLIL ≠ content-based  [Language Objectives]: Improve listening and speaking skills (BICS and CALP) Students will listen to a myth and discuss a painting
  • 56. Materials: Two narrative images (Venus and Adonis and Pluto Abducting Proserpine)
  • 57. Lesson Steps • Begin with the following questions:  Why do we tell stories? How do we learn about stories? Are they always truthful? • Explain to students that they are going to look at an image that illustrates an ancient Greek myth.  Ask students if they can name any myth they may have heard. Review the Narrative Art Vocabulary. • If the students are going to look at Venus…, ask them to imagine what the goddess of love and beauty would look like. For Pluto…, ask how students would imagine the god of the underworld, ruler of the dead.
  • 58. Lesson Steps • Write down the words they use to describe the goddess or god. • Explain to students that they will look at how the artist imagined gods in the year the image was made. • Before displaying the image, read students the related story. Ask them which moment in the story they would choose to portray in a picture. • Display the image.
  • 59. Materials: Two narrative images (Venus and Adonis and Pluto Abducting Proserpine)
  • 60. Lesson Steps  Discussion Questions • What moment in the story has this artist chosen to portray? • What is happening at this moment? • How does the artist help us understand this moment in the story? PLENARY DISCUSSION GROUP DISCUSSION FRAME FOR INDIVIDUAL/GROUP PRESENTATION
  • 61. TASK BASED LEARNING ‘The more confidently you can answer yes to each of these questions, the more task-like the activity.  Will the activity engage learners' interest?  Is there a primary focus on meaning?  Is there a goal or an outcome?  Is success judged in terms of outcome?  Is completion a priority?  Does the activity relate to real world activities?'
  • 62. IS IT A TASK? Work in pairs. Talk about your grandparents. Tell each other what you know about their past lives. Use the phrases and patterns from the box above.
  • 63.  Try to find out three things that your grandparents' and your partner's grandparents' lives had in common. What was the biggest difference between them?  Decide which one of your partner's grandparents was / is the most interesting person and give two reasons why you think so. Then tell the class about him/her and vote to decide on the three most interesting grandparents in the class.  Describe two early memories you have of one particular grandparent. Tell your group. Take notes when listening to each other.
  • 64.  Listing and/or brainstorming You can list people, places, things, actions, reasons, everyday problems, things to do in various circumstances etc.  Examples: (1) In pairs, agree on a list of four or five people who were famous in the 20th century and give at least one reason for including each person. (2) Can you remember your partner’s busiest day? On your own, make a list of all the things he/she did. Then check with your partner. Were there any things you forgot?
  • 65.  Ordering and sorting This can be sequencing, ranking, or classifying.  Examples: (3) In pairs, look at your list of famous people. Which people are most likely to remain popular and become 20th century icons? Rank them from most popular to least popular, and be prepared to justify your order to another pair. (4) Look at the four pictures. They are mixed up. Work in pairs. Put the four pictures in a sequence so that they tell a story. Prepare to tell your story to another pair.
  • 66.  Matching You can match captions / texts / recorded extracts to pictures; short notes or headlines to longer texts, e.g. news items.  Examples: (5) Read the texts – each is about a famous person but the person is not named - and look at the photos. Match each text to a photo. Then talk to your partner, and say how you were able to match them. Prepare to tell the class how you did it. (6) Read the four headlines A to D. Match two pieces of information (given in 1-8 below) to each headline. Explain to your partner how you did this. What clues did you find? Did you both use the same clues?
  • 67.  Pre-task (15-20min) Aim: To introduce the topic of nights out and to give the class exposure to language related to it. To highlight words and phrases.  Show sts pictures of a night out in a restaurant / bar and ask them where they go to have a good night out.  Brainstorm words/phrases onto the board related to the topic: people / verbs / feelings etc.
  • 68.  Introduce the listening of two people planning a night out. Write up different alternatives on the board to give them a reason for listening e.g. (a) restaurant / bar (b) meet at the train station / in the square. Play it a few times, first time to select from the alternatives, second time to note down some language.  Tell them that they are going to plan a class night out and give them a few minutes to think it over.
  • 69. Task (10min)  Students do the task in twos and plan the night. Match them with another pair to discuss their ideas and any similarities and differences. Planning (10min)  Each pair rehearses presenting their night out. Teacher walks around, helps them if they need it and notes down any language points to be highlighted later.
  • 70. Report (15 min)  Class listen to the plans, their task is to choose one of them. They can ask questions after the presentation.  Teacher gives feedback on the content and quickly reviews what was suggested. Students vote and choose one of the nights out.
  • 71. Language Focus (20min)  Write on the board five good phrases used by the students during the task and five incorrect phrases/sentences from the task without the word that caused the problem. Students discuss the meaning and how to complete the sentences.  Hand out the tapescript from the listening and ask the students to underline the useful words and phrases.  Highlight any language you wish to draw attention to e.g. language for making suggestions, collocations etc.  Students write down any other language they wish to remember.
  • 72. LEXICAL APPROACH  The principles of the Lexical Approach have [been around] since Michael Lewis published 'The Lexical Approach' [10 years ago]. [It seems, however, that] many teachers and researchers do not [have a clear idea of] what the Lexical Approach actually [looks like] [in practice]. All the parts in brackets are fixed or set phrases. Different commentators use different and overlapping terms - 'prefabricated phrases', 'lexical phrases', 'formulaic language', 'frozen and semi-frozen phrases', are just some of these terms. We use just two: 'lexical chunks' and 'collocations'.
  • 73.  Lexical Chunks (that are not collocations) by the way up to now upside down If I were you a long way off out of my mind
  • 74.  Lexical Chunks (that are collocations) totally convinced strong accent terrible accident sense of humour sounds exciting brings good luck
  • 75.  In recent years it has been recognised both that native speakers have a vast stock of these lexical chunks and that these lexical chunks are vital for fluent production. Fluency does not depend so much on having a set of generative grammar rules and a separate stock of words - the 'slot and filler' or open choice principle - as on having rapid access to a stock of chunks.
  • 76.  "Language is grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised grammar" (Lewis 1993)  we should spend more time helping learners develop their stock of phrases, and less time on grammatical structures.
  • 77.  studi su come la lingua è usata da chi parla e da chi scrive in testi quotidiani e autentici.  L’approccio basato sui corpora ha indicato un modo efficiente per indagare sull’uso della lingua ed ha, allo stesso tempo, favorito lo sviluppo di nuove ricerche fornendo una nuova prospettiva all’insegnamento.
  • 78.  Un corpus è una selezione molto ampia e sistematizzata di testi naturali, ovvero autentici, o di espressioni rappresentative di una lingua, raccolta in un database elettronico e utilizzata per effettuare analisi di tipo linguistico.  Un programma di concordanza è un programma informatico che, applicato a un testo o a un corpus, consente di ottenere una concordanza delle sue parole.  Nel prospetto che si ottiene con tale programma le parole del testo sono elencate in ordine alfabetico al centro dello schermo, e ogni esempio di occorrenza di una parola è preceduto e seguito dal suo immediato contesto
  • 79.  Ciò può sollecitare la riflessione di chi apprende sull’uso reale della lingua, sulle più probabili occorrenze della lingua d’uso, sulle collocazioni più frequenti, anziché limitarsi ad indicare come e quando alcune espressioni devono essere usate.
  • 80.  lo studente = ricercatore della lingua, cominciando così a formulare ipotesi e a verificarle sulla base dei dati forniti dai corpora con un approccio pedagogico legato alla scoperta personale. Anziché fornire esempi artificiali, la lingua viene insegnata esponendo gli allievi alle sue reali occorrenze.