GSE Methods

1. GSE Methods Week 9

2. Today’s Schedule • Return Midterm Notes • Intro. current communication approaches and methods • Communicative Language Teaching + Discussion • Introduce Presentation 2 (due week 12) • Sign Up for topic and chat with group • Intro. Bookstore scavenger hunt (due week 13)

3. Introduction to Current Methods • Communicative Language Teaching marked the beginning of the current language teaching methods period • Began in the 1980s • Applied linguistics began emphasizing functional and communicative potential of language, and modifying teaching practices to emphasize these • The philosophy of CLT has spawned several teaching practices including the Natural Approach, Content-Based Teaching, Task-Based Teaching, etc.

4. Discussion • Skim page 153 • What methods were rejected in the 1960s? • Why were these methods rejected? What underlying assumption were they rejecting? • Who was partly responsible for this change? • What features of language did British applied linguists find weren’t addressed?

5. Catalysts for change • Need to teach major European languages • Interest in developing language courses on a unit-credit system • British Linguist D.A. Wilkins (1972) proposed • Notional categories (time, sequence, quantity, location, frequency) • Communicative function (request, denial, offers, complaints) • Synthesis of these ideas created “Communicative Language Teaching”

6. Communicative Language Teaching • Is seen as an approach to language teaching • Learning to use English (weak), and using English to learn it (strong) • No one book or authority on CLT • Focus on communication from the beginning (not delayed) • Learner-centered and experienced-based • Language carries out a task and is meaningful to learners • Syllabi consist of • Topics (food, weather) • Functions (describing, requesting info) • Notions (time, frequency, duration, • The vocabulary and grammar needed

7. Other current methods were derived from Communicative Language Teaching

8. Discussion • How is Communicative Language Teaching similar or different to the methods we have studied before? • Which method do you see in public schools these days, CLT or another method? What about in private academies?

9. Comparing Current Methods (handout) Let’s compare these methods and approaches side by side

10. Project #2 Current Methods • 1-2 people per group (Natural, Coop, CBI, TBLT) • Assignment: Teach an activity (mini lesson) ~15 minutes using your selected method. • Structure

11. Presentation #2: Considerations for Groups of 2 • Your project’s unity (dividing up the roles equally) is very important • Your lesson plan should state everyone’s roles • Team-teach the lesson • Team-teach as a Korean/foreign teacher team • Someone could introduce the lesson, and the other could teach • Someone will need to make materials (worksheet + PPT)

12. Grading Rubric • Method clearly explained 10 points • Method clearly demonstrated in mini lesson 15 points • Materials (handouts, PPTs, etc) 10 points • Teaching skills 10 points • Preparedness 5 points • Total 50 points

13. Sign Up Sheet

14. CLT quiz is homework • Compare and contrast the Communicative Language Teaching approach to the approach/method you (your group) chose to teach. • Approach • Design • Teacher/learner roles • Procedure • Maximum one page

15. Bookstore Scavenger Hunt Part 1: Go to a bookstore, or your school, library etc. and find three English textbooks. Answer these questions. • Textbook name/company • Target age/level • What methods/approaches are used. Why? • Is the textbook effective for the age/level it’s targeting? Why? Part 2: Other hunting questions • What’s the most multicultural textbook you found? What makes it so multicultural? • Name one book you found that’s produced by a British company. Name one textbook produced by an American company and Korean company. Do you see any differences among the books that might stem from which country they came from? • Which textbook do you think is most geared towards teaching the multiple intelligences?