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Delivering skills. South Asian Languages. Communicative Premise. Possibility of an open response Negotiation of meaning. Lesson Plan—Template. Topic Goals Linguistic Communicative tasks Learning strategies Structure Preparation Presentation Evaluation. Examplar: Greetings.
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Delivering skills South Asian Languages
Communicative Premise • Possibility of an open response • Negotiation of meaning
Lesson Plan—Template • Topic • Goals • Linguistic • Communicative tasks • Learning strategies • Structure • Preparation • Presentation • Evaluation
Examplar: Greetings • Pre-activity: Background • Video presentation • Activity: Making observations • Post-activity: Application
Pre-activity • Background activation • Situating the context
Activity • Making observations • Kinds of information conveyed • Linguistic realizations • Role relations • Kinship terms • Forms of address
Activity contd. • Question: Are heritage/non-heritage speakers going to observe all the information there? • Pair-work, group discussion • If not, then how can we make them observe the various fictive kinship terms, forms of address, and the linguistic expression of greetings?
Post-activity • Applying it to our own teaching/learning experience • Personal narratives • Intercultural comparisons
Skills activity • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing • Grammar
Stages Pre-reading Identify main elements Identify details Use of text meaning Preview text, establish a purpose, predict meaning Identify main ideas, characters, settings, and events Read intensively and connect main concepts to details Skills Activity—Reading
Organize/revise main ideas/details React to text/explore intertextuality Revise main ideas and supporting details Students give opinions and reactions to text and relate other texts to it Reading —2
Grammar: PACE • Focus on form • P: presentation of meaningful language • A: attention • C: co-construct grammatical explanation • E: extension activity
Writing—Project orientedhttp://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/hindi/resources/res_uiuc.html • Learner-focused, free options • Thematic • Awareness of socio-cultural, historical, and political awareness • Incremental • Guided, two steps • Grammaticality • Coherence/Cohesion
Conclusions • Focus on DISCOVERING culture • Language is the instrument/tool/medium of that DISCOVERY • Learner is ACTIVE • Teacher’s role: Keeping learner ACTIVE