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This comprehensive guide provides support and strategies for school heads, teachers, students, parents, and the community to create a highly immersive English learning environment. Implementation plans, parameters, and activities both in-class and out-of-class are outlined for effective language acquisition.
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Addressing Fundamental Factors to enhance English proficiency School Head 1 2 3 4 Parents & Community Teachers Students The Anchor The Learner The Supporter The Doer • Create an English environment • Be a leader and constant motivator • Ensure sustainability • Involve parents and community • Create an English environment • Conduct effective teaching and learning • Create English programmes, tools, and aids • Organize events and activities • Take charge of personal development and learning • Support teachers in activities • Involve parents and community in activities • Create an English environment • Provide expertise • Lend help and assistance • Provide financial aid • Implement CSR activities Implementation Plan Parameters
Supporting activities to create a highly immersive environment 1 2 3 4 In-Class Out-of-Class Outreach Extra Classes To create effective & engaging in-class programmes to facilitate the learning of English To increase English immersive through community outreach & various collaborations Further support for high-need students and achieving students To increase immersive environment in school • Drop Everything and Read • Speakers’ Corner • Assembly in English • English Tunnel • Dear Diary • Young Talent • Junior Stage • Language Games • English Newsletter • Young Reading Tutor • Young Entrepreneur • International/Local Skype @Webinar • Mentoring of schools • Field trips • ParentsintheHouse • Pupils Exchange Programme • External Collaboration with universities, colleges • Parents’ Talk • Pen-pal Programme • Little Ambassadors • Merry Coaching in Merry Land • Welcome ABC • Holiday Fun Learning • Sunflower Programme • LINUS 2.0 (Literasi Bahasa Inggeris) • Fun learning • Let’s Talk! • Let’s Read Together (Shared/Guided) Reading • Show Your Talent • Project-based learning Implementation Plan Parameters
List of activities: In-ClassObjective: To create in-class programmes that are engaging for students to learn English
Activity 2: Let’s Talk • Suggested Activity • Teacher selects a topic to model the structures of a talk. • Brainstorm ideas for content. • Provide structure for presenting the talk e.g. greetings, introduction to the topic, content and conclusion. • Encourage pupils to choose topics they want to talk about. • Give 3-4 minutes for pupils to prepare their talk. • Allocate 1-2 minutes for each pupil to present in groups/ whole class depending on pupils’ readiness. • Provide help if needed.
Activity 3: Let’s Read Together • Suggested Activity • Choose an interesting book – big book/illustrated book/story book. • Ask questions to stimulate thinking based on the cover/illustrations. • Teacher reads a section of the page and elicit responses from pupils. • Encourage pupils to read along. • Initiate a discussion about the plot, characters, setting, moral values of the story. • Ask pupils to give an alternative ending of the story in groups.
Activity 4: Show Your Talent • Suggested Activity • Choose an interesting topic or identify the situation based on the textbook. • Create questions that can stimulate critical and creative thinking. • Give options to the pupils to perform individually or in group. • Provide structures to present ideas/show talent/dramatize the story/scenario. • Encourage pupils to use simple language. • Discuss with pupils the criteria for presentations/performances. • Provide sufficient time for pupils to prepare their presentations/performances. • Ask pupils to present to the whole class. • Encourage pupils to give feedback to one another.
Activity 5: Project-based Learning • Suggested Activity • Start with the relevant questions to activate pupils’ prior knowledge in a given topic. • Design a plan for the project in groups based on the chosen topic with teacher’s guidance i.e. create a timeline, create a checklist, assign tasks. • Monitor pupils’ progress. This can be done through observation, checklists and peer-feedback. • Assess the outcome of the project by using appropriate tools i.e. rubrics, checklist, peer-feedback, reflection.
List of activities: Out-of-classObjective: To create an environment that facilitates increased usage of the English language outside of the formal classroom
Activity 2: Speaker’s Corner • Pupils decide on the type of presentation they would like to give. • Pupils prepare for the presentation. • Pupils may seek assistance from teacher on the format of the presentation. • Pupils present at any suitable time.
Activity 7: Junior Stage • Provide option for pupils to choose the type of performance they want to carry out. • Facilitate training of pupils for the performance. • Reach out to parents for support and involvement. • Get pupils and/or parents to prepare. props/resources/materials/stage/costumes/lighting/ for the performances. • Delegate work or assign roles for pupils to assist in performance. • Provide feedback and award certification as acknowledgement.
Activity 9: English Newsletter • Select pupils to form the publication group. • Brief pupils on themes, topics or content of the newsletter. • Guide pupils on how to write and create the newsletter. • Pupils to collect suitable information to be added in the newsletter. • Get pupils to publish the newsletter in the school.
Activity 11: Young Entrepreneur • Select pupils to form the group to set up the small enterprise. • Conduct workshop on business management. • Brief and guide pupils on setting up the business. • Promote the products to the school’s community using various ways (e.g. school newsletter, Frog Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Facebook or blog). • Brainstorm ideas on expanding the business.
