Teacher Aims, Content, & Micro Skill

1. Teacher Aims, Content, & Micro Skill CMD LaksmiWidyarini

2. A Framework for Language Teaching Activities • Approach • Method • Technique

3. Approach • All points of view on: • the nature of language • the nature of language teaching & learning • Examples: the oral approach

4. Method • Different plans for presenting the language to students in an orderly manner • Theories are put into practice • Choices are made about the particular skills to be taught; the content to be taught • Examples: direct method

5. Technique • What actually happens in the classroom • The level at which classroom procedures are described

6. Teacher Aim • Aim = the instructional objective • Sources of ideas for objectives: • other language programs • the literature • taxonomies  the domains of learning: cognitive, affective, …

7. Content • content = material • consider: 1stapproach 2ndsyllabus 3rd techniques 4th exercises • where do materials come from?

8. where do materials come from? • adopting materials • developing materials • adapting materials

9. Micro skills • Macroskill: reading Microskill: outlining -summarizing -guessing -inferencing -taking notes-predicting -confirming • Macroskill: writing Microskill: spelling, punctuation, sentence constituent (subject-verb-object), text coherence

10. Macroskill: listening Microskill: - predicting what people are going to talk about - guessing at unknown words or phrases without panic - using one's own knowledge of the subject to help one understand - identifying relevant points - etc • Macroskill: speaking Microskill: - pronounce the distinctive sounds of a language clearly enough - use stress and rhythmic patterns, and intonation patterns of the language clearly enough - use the correct forms of words - put words together in correct word order.