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Overseas Study in Australia 2007. By Vicky Huang. Overview. Methodology and Classroom Observation 1.Listening 2.Vocabulary 3.Interactive activity (Listening/Speaking/Reading) 4. Writing School Visit Information Sharing. Listening –Finding a. balance.
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Overseas Study in Australia 2007 By Vicky Huang
Overview • Methodology and Classroom Observation 1.Listening 2.Vocabulary 3.Interactive activity (Listening/Speaking/Reading) 4. Writing • School Visit • Information Sharing
Listening –Finding a balance • Top-down: context 1. looking from the whole language 2. focus on the “meaning” and “use” 3. prediction task-w/o words preteach, students can’t get involved. • Bottom-up 1. part of language 2. grammar/ vocabulary/ pronunciation…
Classroom ObservationTop-down Listening Task Topic : Cow
Classroom ObservationBottom-up task • Bingo Game ex. language opinion bingo • matching
How do I use it ? Top-down Task(Enjoy 9, Lesson 1) • Ss background- Year 6, Level D • Preteach- “is coming to”, “Friday”, “singer”, “want to be” • Using web map to help students understand the conversation.
How do I use it?Bottom-up Task (Enjoy 7, Lesson 2) • Follow the instruction. • Go to block 13, write down the number of picture “beak”.(a) • Go to block 9, write down the number of picture “cheese”(c) • ...
Vocabulary • Context approach • Notions: ”noticing”, “retrieval” and “use” 1. Noticing-teach words 2. Retrieval and Use – How are students using? • Denotation (the word meaning) and Connotation (personal association and feelings for the word)
Classroom ObservationWords Instruction for Post-Beginner Level Word Wall • Help students to retrieve the words
Words Instruction for Beginner Level A group a picture, each group has different pictures • Students write down the words associated with the pictures. (retrieval) • They may write them in sentences with consistency. (use) • Presented by groups Denotation and connotation are both included
Words Instruction for -- Post Beginner Level Students should read it, copy it and repeat it. (retrieval) An activity book a week. Make sentences with the words. (use)
How do I use it? (Enjoy6, Lesson 6) Making Word Association Map Through Discussion noticing & Denotation Connotation Ex 新學友書局 長和書局 萬花筒書局 Buy what? pens, CDs, erasers, books, storybooks notebooks …
Make a sentence (retrieval and use) 新學友is a bookstore. I am going to the bookstore. I am going to buybooks. 壽山動物園is a zoo. I am going to the zoo. I am going to see lions.
Interactive Task • Work in pairs or small groups. • Talk is needed to complete the task. • Equal turn taking. • Types of interactive tasks? - IGAs - Barrier Games - Flow charts - Ranking - Sequencing - Surveying / Interviewing
Classroom ObservationInteractive Task Y c Flow chart- spelling activity Ranking ex. the most important, the favorite, the noisiest…
Classroom ObservationInteractive Task --IGA For advanced students One is for student A, another one is for student B.
Surveying and Ranking-retrieval and use the words • Q: Where are you going ?(Ask students to choose the one they want to go most.) • Make a bar chart and students read the chart information.
IGA- Enjoy7, Lesson 2 • 2 students a pair. • Student A is an advanced student. • Student B is a student relatively slow to Student A. • Student A read the sentences. Student B listen and choose the right one.
Writing • Deconstruction - makes the context meaningful - build the background (prior) knowledge • Joint Construction - T guides students by asking questions, making suggestions and re-working • Independent Construction - Independent writing • Circle means flexibility
Classroom Observation • Deconstruction Classroom Observation Top-down Listening Task • Joint Construction Students write words, or even simple sentences through T’s help. T offers students reference words to write.
Classroom Observation Cows have four legs. Cows give us milk.
How do I use it? (Enjoy 7 Lesson 2) • Deconstruction: build the field - Story telling for “ The fox and the crow.” - Top-down discussion crow eyes big feathers pretty + sing + = queen
Joint Construction • IGA IGA • Change the story elements.Use the p.12 picture as an example. Work out the story together w/ students. • Who? the alligator, the cat What? has bread in her mouth How does the cat look like? Body parts Describing words eyes big hair clean ears pretty
Independent Construction • For advanced students, they have to make their own story. • For the middle level students, I will focus on the joint construction stage. Teacher helps them fill in the blanks to complete the story. Then rewrite it. • For the slow students, they only have to copy down the new story that we just worked out together.
School Visit • Grade : K to Year 6 • Class size: - K: 20students/class -Year 1: 20-22 students/class -Year 2: 22-24 students/class -Year 3~6: around 30 students/class • Assistant teacher: It depends. • Learning supporting teacher: Reading Recovery
School Visit-Reading Reading Strategy
Website Information Sharing • On-line news www.abc.net.au/rn/edpod www.abc.net.au/tv/btn • Kids TV program www.abc.net.au/abckids www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/aboutgames www.abc.net.au/abckids/guide • Writing www.kidsonthenet.com/castle/index.htm