This document provides an overview of teaching unplugged principles and methods. It discusses using conversation and emergent language over materials. Lesson plans focus on interactive activities like discussing favorite objects and superheroes. Routines are suggested like reflecting on lessons and vocabulary reviews. Student portfolios are recommended to track language development over time. The document emphasizes letting language emerge organically through relevant learner-driven content and interaction between the teacher and students.

1. A Taste of Dogme
for YLE
Duda Costa
Marília Santos

2. Presentation Menu
Principles
What is Teaching Unplugged?
Why?
About YLE
Lesson Plan
Activities
Routines
Portfolios

3. Principles
Interactivity between teacher and
learners leads to co-construction of
knowledge.
The most engaging material will come
from the learners themselves.
Language emerges organically given
the right conditions.

4. Principles
If used, materials should have
relevance for the learners.
The teacher's role: to draw attentiom
to features of emergent language.
Wright & Rebuffet-Broadus, 2013

5. What is Teaching
Unplugged?
Conversation-driven
Materials-light
Focused on emergent language

6. Why?
Why are my students learning this?
How is it going to be useful?
What do they talk about when they are
outside the classroom?
How can we teach them to communicate
those things in English?
How can they notice they are learning?

7. What does it say
about YLE?
YLE learn by doing. GRAMMAR
L2 as a natural alternative to L1.
Keep a record.
Personalise.

8. "(...) let learners know they
are expected to be curious
to increase motivation".
(Dörnyei, 2001)

9. Lesson Plan

10. Lesson Plan

11. ACTIVITIES

12. Favourite objects
in class

13. Favourite objects
in class

14. Elicit numbers and colours
Make a poster
Elicit classroom objects
Label objects
Vote on their 3 favourite objects
(Count the votes)
Produce a chart / sentences

15. My super
hero
Teacher brings her super
hero
Waits for sts to ask
questions to the puppet
In the following lesson,
sts bring their own toys
Ask questions, produce
a text

16. Monsters

17. My routine

18. Teacher gives examples: On Monday I
go to Cultura.
Sts respond, if they use L1, teach
them how to say the activity in L2.
They put the activities on the floor.
They write or talk about them,
looking for coincidences.

19. Book Project
Book Project
What's your ______?
Do you like ______?

20. Students invite their friends to school
Running dictation with gapped
questions
Students complete the gaps with what
they want
Students interview their friends
They produce a text about their
friends

21. Last week

22. T makes a graph describing her
week.
Sts respond
Sts do the same
Sts compare weeks, discuss, vote...
Sts write a short text

23. My opinion
My opinion

24. Elicit / Teach opinion adjectives
Students write sentences about their
favourite films and their opinion
about their schools
Teacher gets a sentence and students
position themselves according to their
opinion
Variation: students change positions
if they agree

25. How does it smell /
sound / feel / taste ?

26. Play parts of different songs, and
students write their opinion
Fold their eyes and spray scents and
ask their opinion
Fold their eyes and get objects with
different textures and ask their opinion
Fold their eyes and have them taste
different flavours and ask their
opinion

27. Sometimes it fails...
"Don't feel obliged
to continue with
activities that are
evidently not
working or are
failing to facilitate
learning".
Wright & Rebuffet-
Broadus, 2013

28. ROUTINES

29. Class Menu

30. Making posters with new
language

31. Making posters with new language

33. Reflecting on the
lesson
Checklists
Vocabulary box

35. "Recording, reviewing and recycling
instances of learner language".
(Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury, 2009)

36. By the end of the
lesson...
Sts have to say a password before
they leave.
Now I can...

37. Now I can...

38. PORTFOLIOS

39. Portfolios

40. Portfolios

41. Portfolios

42. Portfolios

46. Thank you!
Duda Costa - uabacosta@gmail.com
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