engage, study, activate

1. Language learning

2. LANGUAGE
What is LANGUAGE?
1. Language is used for communication.
2. Language operates in a speech community
or culture.
3. Language is acquired by all people in much
the same way; language and language
learning both have universal characteristics.

3. Language learning
■Most adults learn language  without
studying  may have trouble with
pronunciation and grammar  may
communicate fluently.
■Children and adults  acquire language
successfuly outside classroom 
similarities in learning experience
Exposed language; even if they can’t produce same
language spontaneously.
Motivate; to be able to communicate
chance to use language; check their own progress

4. ■Babies and children  endless
exposure
■Adults  continual exposure

5. Elements for successful language learning in the
classroom
1. Engage
2. Study
3. Activate

6. 1. Engage
■Teachers try to arouse the students’
interest, thus involving their emotions.
■Activities and materials which engage
students:
Game
Music
Discussions
Stimulating pictures
Dramatic stories
Amusing anecdotes

7. ■If the activities are not used, teacher
will ensure that their students engage
with topic, exercise or language they
are going to be.
■How?
Ask students what they think of a topic before asking
them to read
when students are Engaged, they learn better than
when they are partly or wholly disengaged.

8. 2. Study
■Students are asked to focus on
language or information and how it is
constructed
■Study means any stage at which the
construction of language is the main
focus.

9. 3. Activate
■Exercises and activities  to get
students using language as freely and
communicatively.
■Objective for student: not focus in
language construction, but use all and any
language which is appropriate for a topic.
■Activate exercises offer students to try
out real language use with little/ no
restriction

10. ■Activate exercises:
Role play
Advertisement design
Debate
Discussion
Describe and draw
Story and poem writing
Writing in a group

11. 3 elements of ESA fit in lesson sequences
■1. straight arrow
a. Engage
b. Study
c. Activate

12. ■2. boomerang procedure
a. Engage
b. Activate
c. Study
d. Activate

13. 3. Patchwork
a. Engage
b. Activate
c. Activate
d. Study
e. Activate
f. Study
g. Engage
h. Activate

14. 4. Study
Gives vocab Students says them in correct pronunciation
3. Activate
Students look at text
(people and effects the sun on their skin
Students say how they feel
2. Activate
Students act out the dialogue (doctor-sunburn)
1. engage
Students look at picture Commenting on people and their activity

15. 8. Activate
Students write a radio commercial fr a sunscreen Teacher record
7. Engage
Teacher discusses advertisement
What are they for?
What are most effective ads the students can think of?
6. Study
Teacher focuses on relative clause used in text
5. Activate
Describe in the same kind of ways as text

16. LEARNING
1. Learning is acquisition or ¨getting¨.
2. Learning is retention of information or skill.
3. Retention implies storage systems,
memory, cognitive organization.
4. Learning is relatively permanent but
subject to forgetting.
5. Learning involves some form of practice,
perhaps reinforced practice.
6. Learning is a change in behavior.
What is LEARNING?

17. TEACHING
What is TEACHING?
■Guides learning
■Facilitates learning
■Enables the learner to learn
■Sets the conditions for learning

18. ■Elements necessary to learn language
in the “real” world: exposure,
motivation, and use.
■3 elements necesary for successful
teaching and learning in class: ESA
■Good teachers vary the ESA
sequences they use with their students-
to avoid monotony and offer a range of
learning sequences.

20. ■Engage begins wih activity raises
energy, is communicative and links to
theme of model text.
■The oral activity, listing pros and cons
is analogous to the model text, which
does the same.
■Uses feedback from warmer activity to
provide purpose for reading model text.