1 / 24

Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!

Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!. Gaele Macfarlane & Guy Boudreau Professional Development Unit Ko ç University. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking! Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane. Order of the session Warmer – 5 mins Groups and Observers

ally
Download Presentation

Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking! Gaele Macfarlane & Guy Boudreau Professional Development Unit Koç University

  2. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane • Order of the session • Warmer – 5 mins • Groups and Observers • Koç Teachers & Students – 5 mins • Questionnaire – 5 mins • Jeopardy of Results – 15 mins • Discussion of Results – 20 mins • Wrap-up – 5 mins

  3. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane

  4. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane Groups Observer – change every 5 mins..

  5. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane Current - KUEPE The future – KUEPE

  6. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane Action Research => Study • 34 teachers out of 40 • 221 students out of 502

  7. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane DISCUSS: • Which opinions do you think were the most consistent between teachers and students? • Which areas of the questionnaire do you think showed the most disagreement between teachers and students?

  8. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane • Looping – a speaking activity about speaking! www.superteachertools.com

  9. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 1) THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTRUMENTAL MOTIVATION • Fairly consistent results.

  10. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 2) THE IMPORTANCE OF EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION • Fairly consistent results.

  11. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 3) THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATIVE MOTIVATION • Visibly inconsistent.

  12. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 4) THE IMPORTANCE OF INTRINSIC MOTIVATION • Visibly inconsistent.

  13. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane DISCUSS: • How do you account for the inconsistencies between teacher and student perceptions of integrative and intrinsic motivation? • Why haven’t teachers acknowledged the importance of these factors?

  14. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 5) The ability to speak a language is a reflection of how well one has mastered the language.

  15. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 6) Learning to speak a language is an integral part of learning that language.

  16. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 7) Our student’s ability to speak English is not as crucial as their ability to read or write in English.

  17. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 8) Students’ willingness to speak English in class can largely be affected by instructors.

  18. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane DISCUSS: • Approximately 30% of instructors state that reading and writing skills are more important than speaking. • A similar percentage of students have reported the same perception. Is there a relationship?

  19. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane DISCUSS: • Approximately 30% of teachers claim that reading and writing skills are not as important as speaking. • A similar number of teachers don’t feel as though they can influence their students to speak in class. Is there a relationship?

  20. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane 10) Why don’t students speak more in class? TEACHER PERCEPTIONS STUDENT PERCEPTIONS #1 LACK OF PREPAREDNESS #1 LACK OF PREPAREDNESS #2 LACK OF MOTIVATION #2 LACK OF CONFIDENCE #3 LACK OF CONFIDENCE #3 LACK OF MOTIVATION

  21. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane

  22. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane WRAP UP DISCUSS: • Students speaking in the classroom – does it come down to teachers, students, the institution, or the backwash effect?

  23. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane *** Special Thanks! *** Hale Unverir (questionnaire translation) HaticeCelebi (intellectual consultation) Blake Shedd (graphic coordination) Lauren Alva (activity contribution)

  24. Get yourself ready to get your students speaking!Guy Boudreau, Gaele M. Macfarlane BIBLIOGRAPHY: Al-Tamimi, Atef & MunirShuib (2009). Motivation And Attitudes Towards Learning English: A Study Of Petroleum Engineering Undergraduates At Hadhramout University Of Sciences And Technology. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 29 Volume 9(2) 2009. Baldauf Jr., Richard B. & Tran Thi Thu Trang (2007). Demotivation: Understanding Resistance to English Language Learning – The Case of Vietnamese Students. The Journal of Asia TEFLVol 4, No 1, pp. 79-105, Spring 2007. Burrell, J. (2009).Respondingtobehaviorsofresistance in Japanese university EFL classroom.Interfaces,Vol.3,No. 1, June2009. Dornyei, Zoltan (1994). Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom. The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 273-284. Drame, Mamadou. Resistance to Communicative Language Teaching in a Foreign Language Classroom: a Senegalese Case Study. fastef.ucad.sn/LIEN12/drame.pdf Escandon, Arturo (2004). Education/learning Resistance in the Foreign –Language Classroom: a Case Study. Working Paper No. 5 September 2004. Ghanea, Mahshid & Hamid Reza ZeraatPisheh & Mohammad Hassan Ghanea (2011). The Relationship between Learners’ Motivation (Integrative and Instrumental) and English Proficiency among Iranian EFL Learners. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 59 2011. Norris-Holt, Jacqueline (2001). Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. VII, No. 6, June 2001. http://iteslj.org/Articles/Norris-Motivation.html Peng, Jian E. (2007) Willingness to Communicate in an L2 and Integrative Motivation among College Students in an Intensive English Language Program in China. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL 33. www-faculty.edfac.usyd.edu.au/projects/usp_in.../article02.pdf www.superteachertools.com

More Related