The document outlines goals and activities for a lexical approach classroom. The general goals are to develop students' reading skills and increase their store of lexical chunks. More specific goals include motivating students to read engaging texts, raising awareness of lexical chunking, and helping students develop independent learning skills by experiencing chunks in authentic texts. Sample classroom materials are provided to achieve these goals, including readings, comprehension questions, and activities analyzing lexical chunks. Teachers are instructed to adapt the materials for their students and reflect on how well the goals were achieved.
Communicative Language Teaching is a set of principles about teaching including recommendations about method and syllabus where the focus is on meaningful communication not structure, use not usage.
Communicative Language Teaching is a set of principles about teaching including recommendations about method and syllabus where the focus is on meaningful communication not structure, use not usage.
Communicative Language Teaching is the cornerstone for approaches that have shifted from a grammar-based language view to a functional view of language where communication is the main objective. Such approaches are CBI (Content-based instruction) and TBI (Task-based instruction). Today, both CBI and TBI are the leading approaches most teachers are currently using to teach a second/foreign language around the world. Both approaches have been proven to be effective, and the most important thing is that students are truly learning to use language to communicate their ideas to different audiences.
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), also known as task-based instruction (TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help.
Community Language Learning advises teachers to take their students as “whole person.” Students decide the topic and teachers act to like conselors. The learning is inductive.
This article aims at probing the different types of syllabi used to teach English to English native
and non-native speakers. The researcher used a chronological approach in describing each syllabus
type in accordance to its emergence in epistemology of the syllabus design and pedagogical trends
in teaching English in the world. Theories of language and learning, characteristics of each
syllabus, and pros and cons of the discussed syllabi were highlighted throughout the article.
Communicative Language Teaching is the cornerstone for approaches that have shifted from a grammar-based language view to a functional view of language where communication is the main objective. Such approaches are CBI (Content-based instruction) and TBI (Task-based instruction). Today, both CBI and TBI are the leading approaches most teachers are currently using to teach a second/foreign language around the world. Both approaches have been proven to be effective, and the most important thing is that students are truly learning to use language to communicate their ideas to different audiences.
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), also known as task-based instruction (TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help.
Community Language Learning advises teachers to take their students as “whole person.” Students decide the topic and teachers act to like conselors. The learning is inductive.
This article aims at probing the different types of syllabi used to teach English to English native
and non-native speakers. The researcher used a chronological approach in describing each syllabus
type in accordance to its emergence in epistemology of the syllabus design and pedagogical trends
in teaching English in the world. Theories of language and learning, characteristics of each
syllabus, and pros and cons of the discussed syllabi were highlighted throughout the article.
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Guided Response:
In addition to responding to your instructor’s comments and questions, respond to at least two of your peers. Ask questions to push your classmates to be more specific about their literacy planning.
Compare your routines to theirs. How are they similar? How are they different?
My work :
Routines for Literacy Learning ( so
Compare my routines to theirs. How are they similar? How are they different?)
Broad Instructional Goals:
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To develop an interest and make sense of printed material
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To learn letter to sound correspondence
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To read words and identify sounds that makes words
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Participate in a shared reading of the story,
The Gingerbread Man
Four Block Lesson Plan:
First Block:
Self-Selected Reading
Second Block:
Guided Reading
Third Block:
Working With Words
Fourth Block:
Writing
Time: 15Minutes
Time: 20 Minutes
Time: 25Minutes
Time: 30 Minutes
On the first lesson of self-selected reading, each pupil will try to study the tale “The Gingerbread Man”. They will study it for the primary 15 minutes. I will then permit them to respond to the events inside the tale and inspire them to chine in
I will then examine the tale once more loud to the whole class can even encourage the students to examine alongside me. I will then put up prepared sentence strips in a pocket chart. I might then examine the story through pointing to each word. I could tell them to pick out their preferred words and write them on a separate sheet
I will overview the story on the 0.33 time and ask the students to select their best preferred phrases from the tale. I will difficulty each with a marker(black) to jot down each word separate on paper I will tell them to attract interest on each word while writing’s will also take the scholars to a computer lab for them to do an online project of matching the begging letter sounds at the lowest of the laptop.
I will then allow the students to use the brand new discovered words to create a web story by means of operating on computers. They will then put up their work online
I will also make the students to also read Mustapha, M., & Maldonado-Colon, E. (2011). Whole-to-part phonics instruction: Building on what children know to help them know more.
The Reading Teacher
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, 328–338
References
Alexander, G.J. (2011).
The Lesson Plan
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Bowen, W. G., & McPherson, M. S. (2016).
Lesson Plan: An agenda for change in American higher education
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By:
Ste By: Winscher
Goal:
Make students more aware of word meaning.
Option 1:
Select a grade level and create a Four Blocks lesson plan. Make sure to include all four blocks as identified on pp. 50-51. Design the Four Blocks around a specific text and/or topic.
The chart I have created is specified for my 4
th
grade English class particularly for my vocabulary/reading portion of class. The following are the 4 topics used in the four-block lesson plan:
Self
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selected
reading.
Guided
reading.
Working
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2. Lexical Approach Classroom Activity
General Goals
To develop students’ reading skills
To increase students’ store of lexical chunks
More Specific Goals
To motivate students to read by
providing texts with universally engaging themes
providing activities that allow students to personalize texts
encouraging meaningful and authentic initial reactions to texts
To raise student awareness of the idea of lexical chunking by
directing students’ attention to specific lexical chunks already encountered
in the text
helping students analyze these chunks
directing students to different means of analyzing lexical chunks
3. To help students develop skills for independent learning by
providing opportunities to experience lexical chunks in authentic texts
encouraging students to analyze, generalize, research and experiment with
lexical chunks providing students with opportunities to discover chunks
for themselves
4. TEACHER’S TASK 1
1: Read through this unit of classroom materials as if you were preparing to
use them for a group
of high intermediate to advanced learners and decide how you would need to adapt the
materials.
2: If appropriate adapt and use these materials with your students. After using
the materials think
about these questions:
- Which goals do I think the materials achieved?
- Which goals do I think the materials fail to achieve?
- Did I notice students doing anything differently with these materials than
with other
materials I’ve been using?
- Did my students have a positive, negative or indifferent response to the
materials?
- Did I, as a teacher, do anything differently using these materials?
- Did I, as a teacher, have a positive, negative or indifferent reaction to these
materials?
5. School Days – student materials
Reading 1 - Away Day
Before you read
1: You are going to read a story about a young teenage boy from
England. The boy has upset
his parents.
Read these sentences from the story and decide whether you think they
come at the beginning,
in the middle or at the end of the story.
"I got slapped three times with the sole of her shoe. Three times. That
was it. Then she left
my room. She never said a word."
2: The story is called Away Day and the first sentence reads, “The only
time I ever bunked off
school, I was thirteen years old.”
What do you think the story is about? Write down some guesses and
share them with other
students.
6. As you read
1: As you read the story from the point of view of a teenage school boy, try to see
pictures of the
boy in your mind and decide if the boy deserved the punishment.
7. After you read
Reaction
1: Tell a partner, if you think the boy's punishment was appropriate and what
you would have
done if you were the parents.
2: Think about the following questions:
How do you feel about the boy in the story?
Why do you think the boy went with the twins?
Why do you think the boy's mother reacted in the way she did?
At the beginning of the story the author tells you the twins were always in
trouble. Why do you
think he tells you that?
Discuss your thoughts about the questions in a small group.
3: Discuss your answers to the following questions with a partner:
In paragraphs 1 and 2, what words tell you the housing estate is poor/working
class?
In paragraphs 3 and 4, how do you know the weather is hot and has been hot
for some time?
In paragraphs 5 and 6 the boy is becoming more and more frightened. What do
you think
frightens him?
The boy was punished in the final paragraph. Was it the punishment he
expected? Was the punishment effective?
8. Away Day…*
Look at the Language
1: Look at the lexical chunks below. All the expressions are from the story,
Away Day.
For each chunk try to write an equivalent in your language. Are they lexical chunks in
your
language too?
Tell a partner about the lexical chunks in your language.
Lexical chunks (frozen or fixed)
in the middle of nowhere
I had no idea
Lexical Chunks (semi-frozen or semi-fixed)
She never said a word
I didn’t know where we were going
I didn’t know what we were doing
adjective plus noun partnerships/collocations (words that naturally go
together)
9. 2: What other nouns can you use after the adjective ‘shiny new’? e.g. shiny
new shoes
shiny new bike
3: What other nouns can you use after the adjective ‘broken’? e.g. broken
heart
broken window
What nouns can’t you use after ‘broken’? e.g. broken house
Examples of verb plus noun collocations (words that naturally go together)
I didn’t do my homework. (do / homework)
They were always in trouble with the teachers. (be / trouble)
10. 4: Underline the weakest verb and noun collocation.
Example:
Exam take / pass / fail / study for / sit / revise
homework do / forget / lose / prepare / finish / hand in
trouble be in / expect / make / discover / get into / ask for
11. References
Lexical Approach Classroom Activities
Carlos Islam, The University of Maine
Ivor Timmis, Leeds Metropolitan University
Available at:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/lexical_try1.pdf