ESL CALL 101 - Baumwoll Kotesol Seoul May 2015
- 1. Copyright © Douglas Baumwoll, May 2015. Use for educational purposes permitted.
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- 3. Preliminaries: Where Are You at? (2 minutes) • Where do you teach? • How old are your students? • Are classes divided by level? Gender? • Class size? • Do you have access to a computer lab? • Does each student get one computer or share? • Do your students do homework?
- 4. Short Intro: • Why learn English? • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
- 7. Lingua Franca: a language that is widely to communicate among speakers of another language
- 8. Cosmopolitanism: free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
- 10. English Speakers in the World - English is a main language in more than 55 countries - When traveling, you can speak English in almost every country on Earth - Speaking with other ESL speakers: China, Japan, Phillipines (Korean will speak English)
- 11. On Wikipedia: - 5,000,000 articles written in English - 300,000 articles written in Korean
- 12. Public School ESL Education - Korea
- 13. What Middle- and High-School Public School Teachers Teach (in order) • Reading • Grammar • Vocabulary • Listening • Speaking • Pronunciation • Writing
- 14. Reflective Practice (4 minutes) • What can you reasonably expect Korean Ss to learn from the age of 8 to 10 years old? 11-15? • In, high school language learning essentially stops and transitions to prep for the CSAT. • How important is accuracy vs. fluency now for your Ss (e.g., articles)? later in their student life? • What about the notion of “fun” English classes in the Korean public school context? • How do games relate to augmenting language skills? • Do you believe a student experiences “pleasure” upon completing a task? Does “pleasure” = “fun”?
- 16. The Best ESL Websites by Language Skill
- 17. Applicability for You • I really need to give 8 or 10 presentations: • Public vs. private school • Elementary vs. middle vs. high vs. university • Hakwon vs. non-Hakwon students Please adapt: reflect, create, refine
- 18. Excellent Sites that Review Other Sites • English Club - Reviewed Websites • Busy Teacher – Top 10 Great overall site: • About.com • Norwalk Community College - Sites
- 19. Speaking • English Central(not free) • English Class 101 • Talk English • Real English
- 21. Teach a “tolerance for ambiguity”
- 22. Reading (and Listening -bimodal) • Rong-Chang (China) • Free Rice (United Nations) • Wordsearches • “eslgamesplus” - Concentration • ITESLJ.org - Written Conversation Questions • ESL Bits - Short stories and scripts - • High-level – TED (bimodal with subtitles in English) – YouTube (with cc turned on)
- 24. Listening • Voice of America (VOA) • Arlyn Freed - Listening Websites Review – ELLLO.org • Dictations – English Club - Listen and Type – About.com - Write in notebooks (by topic) – Breaking News English - Typing with Slow Speech • Use small whiteboards if no computers
- 25. Grammar • Parts of speech – online games • "arcademics.com" , "grammaropolis.com" and "abcya.com" • "englishforeveryone" – Verb Tenses • Google Sites - Online Games - "easygrammar4kids“ – all grammar
- 28. John's ESL - Sentence Scramble Generator
- 29. Eclipse – Crossword Maker Computer Vocabulary– Intermediate/Advanced 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EclipseCrossword.com ACROSS: 5. The people who design or make computer software. 7. A place on the internet where someone posts information about a subject. 8. On the internet: Enter a word and look for information about it.
- 30. More Sentence Building Sites • primarygames.com – games • autoenglish.org – more word order • worksheetgenius.com - Sentence building with teacher input!