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Classroom talk. F – A – S – T Strategies to support quality TL talk in the languages classroom. Speaker: Dr Rachel Hawkes. F – A – S – T. F un A ccessible S elling T enacious. Fun – a reason to talk. Note and respond to what students want/need to say Exploit and invoke humour
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Classroom talk F – A – S – TStrategies to support quality TL talk in the languages classroom Speaker: Dr Rachel Hawkes
F – A – S – T • Fun • Accessible • Selling • Tenacious
Fun – a reason to talk • Note and respond to what students want/need to say • Exploit and invoke humour • Open-ended tasks • Subverting the norm
“Teachers informally monitor and assess spontaneous TL use, keeping track of learners’ progress.” http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/our-expert-knowledge/modern-languages
Fun – a reason to talk • Note and respond to what students want/need to say • Exploit and invoke humour • Open-ended tasks • Subverting the norm
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Fun – a reason to talk • Note and respond to what students want/need to say • Exploit and invoke humour • Open-ended tasks • Subverting the norm
Comment il s’appelle? Quelâge a-t-il? Il est comment? Qu’est-cequ’il a commefamille? Il a des animaux? Où est-cequ’ilhabite? Qu’est-cequ’ilaime faire? Qu’est-cequ’iln’aime pas faire? Qu’est-cequ’il a regardéhiersoir à la télé? Qu’est-cequ’il a fait hier? Qu’est-cequ’il a à la main? Il parle avec qui?
SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT J’habitedans un village. Chez nous il y a beaucoup de pollution. A Cambridge on peut faire les magasins. Le weekend on vasouvent au centre de loisirs. Mon frère vanormalement au stade. Mescopainsvont à la piscine.
¿Qué piensas? Piensoque... ¡Yo también!¡Yo tampoco! ¡Sí, esverdad!¡No, esmentira! X X X ¡Estás loco/a! ¿Qué piensas?
Trouvequelqu’un qui….. 1)…vasouvent au cinéma. 2)…va de temps en temps à l’église. 3)…ne vajamais à la pationoire. Trouvedeuxpersonnes qui….. 4)…vont au centre commercial tous les weekends. 5)…vontsouvent au centre de loisirs.
¿En quépiensan? ¿Qué se puede ver? ¿Qué van a hacer? Gracias @ Pete Spain
Fun – a reason to talk • Note and respond to what students want/need to say • Exploit and invoke humour • Open-ended tasks • Subverting the norm
¿Quéva a hacer Lara esteverano? ¿Qué no va a hacer ?
Fenomenal futures* Basic sentence: Voy a + infinitive. Enhanced by the ‘super’ structures: Espero Me gustaría Quiero Tengo que Tengo ganas de Tengo la intención deTengo pensado } + infinitive Now read this passage out, without using ‘voy a’ more than once! En las vacaciones voy a ir a España. Voy a alojarme en un hotel. Voy a comer platos típicos en el restaurante. Voy a nadar en la piscina. No voy a nadar en el mar. Voy a ir al centro. Voy a sacar fotos de los monumentos. Voy a visitar los museos.
¿Cuáles son las preguntas? 1. Tiene el pelo largo. 5. sí. 2. Me gusta el teatro 4. El español. 3. Son fáciles.
Fun – a reason to talk • Note and respond to what students want/need to say • Exploit and invoke humour • Open-ended tasks • Subverting the norm
Accessible • Explicitly teach the language you/they need to use • Know what they know and build on it as logically as possible • Support TL teacher talk with gestures, cognates, examples, visual cues, drawing modelling
mirar en mi libro de vocabulario? sentarmeallí? ir a mi clase de música? ¿Puedo… usar el diccionario? trabajar con…? ir al baño?
Accessible • Explicitly teach the language you/they need to use • Know what they know and build on it as logically as possible • Support TL teacher talk with gestures, cognates, examples, visual cues, drawing, modelling
der Apfel der Elefant die Banane die CD die Diskette dasGeschenk dasIglu der Junge der Fussball der Hund dasMädchen der Löwe dieKatze dieNuss dieOrange
das Iglu der Löwe dieKatze
Selling • ‘Sell’ the methodology you use appropriately • Reward the risk-takers in speaking • Ensure suitable differentiation and progression
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." Nelson Mandela Education with an international outlookLanguage learning and leadership development
Selling • ‘Sell’ the methodology you use appropriately • Reward the risk-takers in speaking • Ensure suitable differentiation and progression
Selling • ‘Sell’ the methodology you use appropriately • Reward the risk-takers in speaking • Ensure suitable differentiation and progression
Tenacity • Practise what you preach • Insist (consistently) • Push through the ‘pain barrier’
Classroom talk F – A – S – TStrategies to support quality TL talk in the languages classroom http://www.rachelhawkes.com/PandT/Speaking/Speaking.php rhawkes@comberton.cambs.sch.uk