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Class agenda - Thursday, 9/18. Meet-n-greet Class business Lab debrief Overview of next lab activity Introduction to the SLA – FL Methods portion of course. Meet-n-greet. Array yourself by birthday Partner up What got you hooked on your language? Most memorable part of first lab
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Class agenda - Thursday, 9/18 Meet-n-greet Class business Lab debrief Overview of next lab activity Introduction to the SLA – FL Methods portion of course
Meet-n-greet • Array yourself by birthday • Partner up • What got you hooked on your language? • Most memorable part of first lab • Favorite comfort food • Listen well, because you will report your partner’s response to a second pair
Class business • Do you have any? • Labs for next week: groups should swap rooms • Conferences • MiWLF - October 24-25 in Lansing ($30) • Ed Tech conference - Sept 27 ($0)
Lab debrief • Who is your audience for these labs? • How do you decide what the content objective should be? • Standards • Student assessments • But for one activity, there really should just be one content objective
Content Objectives • Culture as CO • Culture as launching pad for language-related CO • Separate the wheat from the chaff: What language is critical in order for ss to participate accurately? What language is nebenbei, not necessary for ss to know?
If CO is vocab… • …then understanding grammar of gustaría is not important • But…do you give vocab items that required gustaría and gustarían? • Un/una & un/une & ein/eine/ein • If CO is not vocab, then all this changes
Editing… • Die Höchstgeschwindigkeitsbegrenzung • T performance, not S learning/interacting • Key questions: • Why is this slide / handout / activity here? • How does it connect to what came before? • How does it connect to what comes next? • How does it connect to my COs / LOs?
Pre – During – Post Activities • Think – pair – share: • What does a student need to know in order to participate in and understand a text / viewing / listening activity? • Stumped?
Comprehension depends on… • Building background • Connecting learning opportunities to students’ experiences and background • Connecting learning opportunities to previous instruction • Vocabulary development
Your turn Turn to the cloze activity – complete Once upon a time, long ago and far away, there lived a gentle queen. It was the deepest and darkest (1) ofwinters, and every day the gentle queen would spend (2) herafternoons sitting with her needlework at the only window in the (3) sunlight. The castle window itself was framed in blackest ebony, (4) andanyone passing below could gaze upon the beautiful queen, (5) prettyas a picture, as she quietly worked at her (6) embroidery. One day, as she sat sewing, she pricked her finger (7) withher needle, and three rich, red drops of blood (8) fellupon the glistening snow below. At the sight of the red blood upon the (9) whitesnow, the gentle queen whispered: “Oh, how I wish (10) fora baby daughter with hair as black as ebony, (11) lipsas red as blood, and skin as white as snow.” And so it came (12) topass that the queen gave birth to such a (13) child, whom she called Snow White.
Your turn, still • Now turn to the activity plan template. With a partner, consider the following questions and complete the template: • What does a student need to know in order to make sense of the paragraph on your handout? • Which aspects of that paragraph would you need to pre-teach in order for students to understand?
Reading – Viewing - Listening • We can’t just give texts* to students and say “go!” • Instead, we need to…. • Build background • Develop vocabulary • Check for comprehension • Allow for student extension and expression *by “text,” I mean written, visual or aural
P - D - P • Scan through example activities for pre, during, and post work • Questions / ideas? • Let’s look at the lab for the next two weeks
Developmental BilingualEducation Using L1 to drive instruction Transfer of skills Developing English skills while… Teaching content in L1 SEI English Immersion (AZ-style) 4 hours of ELD for all Els Grammar, oral, reading, writing No L1 No content instruction Teaching English to ELs
Theory <-> Practice • Point is not to resolve this debate • Point is to recognize that the most concrete actions we take in the classroom are indeed informed by theory… • …whether or not we’re aware of it
SLA - FL Methods • How one informs the other • Somewhat artificial divisions • Chronological
Your work… • Questions or concerns?
Pre-WWII • What do you remember from the readings we did 2 weeks ago? • State - university - science nexus
Grammar translation Analytical Grammar-based Translation of “high literature” Classics (Latin, Greek) Lg not for communication, but for intellectual development Direct Method Response to G-T Meant to mimic L1 acquisition Teacher-centered Mimicry, pantomime, question-answer structures Pre WWII methods