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Beginning Level Content-Based Language Learning. Anthony Silva, Frank Noji Kapiolani Community College – Hawaii TESOL 2010 Boston. Objective. To present a reflective framework to use in developing a Beginning level ESOL class and one realization of a course using the framework.
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Beginning Level Content-Based Language Learning Anthony Silva, Frank Noji Kapiolani Community College – Hawaii TESOL 2010 Boston
Objective To present a reflective framework to use in developing a Beginning level ESOL class and one realization of a course using the framework. How the teacher can better facilitate language learning through the use of content.
Content-Based Language Learning (CBLL) • Distinguish between • CBI • CBLL • CBLT
CBI - CBLL input output Student/Learner Up-take Out-take
CBLL LANGUAGE CONTENT PURPOSE
Academic Mode • Teach More about Less. • Seek Principled Understanding. • Aim for Rooted Relevance
Purpose Curriculum PARTICULARITY Materials Capstone Beliefs about the Language Classroom writing collaboration poster sessions PRACTICALITY
Purpose INPUT UP-TAKE FEEDBACK Curriculum Capstone Materials Writing Seminars Poster Sessions OUTPUT OUT-TAKE REHEARSAL
Purpose Activation & preparation Making input comprehensible Curriculum Capstone Materials Practice & application Review & assessment
Beliefs about Language Classroom Teaching input output Student/Learner Up-take Out-take
Beliefs about Language Teaching Students are engaged with the content Rehearsal Uptake Authentic out-take Purposeful Content Feedback
Two challenges for teachers in Beginning Level CBLL classes • Reducing the noise in the uptake • Getting students to produce out-take to get feedback so they can rehearse
little or no receptive nor productive confidence • oral production is limited to disconnected words and memorized fragments • written production is sentence level and full of errors. Definition of beginning level
incremental steps. • small leaps • repetition Beginning Arabic
Beginning Vietnamese Just in Time On Demand recursion and repetition
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Beginning English for the Deaf • Kind of information: • Foundational Information • Facets • Simplicity
The Kind of Information Transformational Foundational
The Kind of Information Concrete Abstract
The Kind of Information Complex Simple
Presentation of Content Smaller Leaps Greater Leaps More Structured More Open Less Independence More Independence Slower Quicker Based on: Differentiating Instruction For Advanced Learners In the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom By Carol Ann Tomlinson (1995)
MORE • repetition • clarification • repeated exposure to words and concepts • chunking of information • modeling • pictures and realia • supplemental materials • gestures • formulaic Language
LESS • reduced text • simplified graphic organizers • lower levels of questions • smaller chunks of information • slower speech speed
Anchor Activity • 15 minute of intense aural-visual experience: • introduced practical applications for the concept and vocabulary • Getting them "to sense the genotype behind the phenotype"
Interactive Review Oral Pattern Review Practice
Interactive Review Oral Pattern Review Practice like to + VERB enjoy + Ving
Feedback Repetition Recasts
Mixer New Pattern Practice
Mixer New Pattern Practice Oral and Written
Mixer doubts
Mixer have doubts about
What do you have doubts about in your life? I have doubts about my job.
What do you have doubts about in your life? I have doubts about my job. have doubts about + NOUN
What do you have doubts about in your life? I have doubts about my job. have doubts about + NOUN I have doubts about ______