Practical Technique for Language Teaching
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The document provides guidance for teaching four language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - based on communicative language teaching (CLT) principles. It outlines objectives and general descriptions, then gives specific ideas and activities for teaching each skill. For listening, ideas include dictogloss and various games. Speaking can be developed through debate, drama and gap activities. Key aspects of reading include choice of material, strategies like scanning and skimming, and intensive/extensive reading activities. Writing covers functions, controlled/guided/free activities like filling blanks, descriptions and summaries. Sample lesson plans provide procedures and activities to integrate skills development.
Practical Technique for Language Teaching
- 1. PracticalTeaching for Four Skills {on CLT-based} Jakarta, June 30, 2013
- 2. Objectives After training the participants are able to: 1. Recognice some existing stategies to teaching. 2. Implement some practical ways of teaching. 3. Find other strategies which support the teaching practice. 4. Be creative in elaborating the materials to easily teaching. 5. Fit the teaching strategies on the suitable materials.
- 3. General Descriptions These teaching would be based on the CLT. They comprise; Listening, Speaking, Reading andWriting The four skills are integrated (not separable) and could be done in one meeting. Task-based
- 4. Some Ideas forTeaching Listening Dictoglos (preparation- dictation-reconstruction- analysis and correction) Some listening game: - Simon says: students should respond the direction which uses “Simon says....” Objective: Check student comprehension - Telephone Number: student write the phone number which is read by teacher - Clock Face,Which picture, True or False, Following direction, which way?, gues who, which weekend, name and product (reading label), - Spot the word, list the item, jigsaw listening, cloze listening, spot the difference, dictation, word focus dictation
- 5. Practical Activities ofTeaching Speaking 1. Debate and discussion - Arranging discussion group - Using the discussion guide - Project proposal - Speech 2. Drama Activities - Choosing the role - Guided role play - Free role play - Free role play from text 3. Gap Information - Cartoon sequence - Which face - Who’s who - Dscribe and draw - lost of memory - Jumbled pictures - shared information
- 6. Some Idea for Teaching Reading THE KEYS Choise: student will read the target language text differently from the mother one Objective: Fit the text to the while reading or follow-up Strategies: Scanning(enciclopedia, statistical text) and Skimming (historical text, story, report) Exstensive (Give student unproblematic text) Number: Choose various otentic material. Silence: Make silent reading as a habit. Speech: Make student prior to the fast reading Context:Avoid the translative explanation on reading.
- 7. The six skills of reading Predictive skill (lead in activities) Gaining Informations (scanning) Gaining general descriptions (Skimming, yes/ no question) Gaining detailed informations (scanning and skimming,“wh question”) Recognizing function and pattern of text (“for example” indicates some example,“in other words” indicates some other concept stated in other ways. Getting meanings (cloze procedure)
- 8. Practical Activities in Reading Scanning - find new words for old - locate grammar feature - find a specified advertisement - compare details - check dates - shopping list - newspaper headlines Skimming - find and compare events - select a title - create a title Intensive - match noun and verb - split sentences - make summaries - fill the gaps - take sides - select summary - compare versions - identify facts - mathing Extensive - keep records - wall charts - make summaries - indicate the difficullty
- 9. Some Ideas forTeaching Writing The function of writing: action, information, fun Three main activities in writing: controled-writing, guided writing, and free writing
- 10. Practical Activities in Writing Controled-Writing - jigsaw sentences - gapped passage - pure cloze passages - multiple choise cloze passages - fine and copy - dictation -sentece combining - reducing - sending SMS Guided Writing - picture description - picture sequence essay - formal practice - making summary - making connections - note writing - replying letter - replying to advertisement - half dialog Free Writing
- 11. Teaching practice for NC’s bookN O Sub- lesson Skill Target Teaching Procedure Activities 1 Vocabulary Building Listening Speaking 1. Introduction to the theme 2. Asking to the student the general correlation to the students idea, habit 3. Teachers ask student about the picture (who, what, why, how) 4. Student can identify the target words/ expression and jot down. 5. Student can paraphrase the speech which uttered by the speaker. 1. Teachers ask student about the pictures 2. Students listen to the tape. 3. Students write the words/ expressions 4. Students drill the target words 2 Substitution Drill Speaking 1. Teacher read the words/ expressions in comprehensible pronunciation 2. Students listen to. 3. Students drills the expression one by one or in vice versa 4. Teachers give feedback on the way of reading. 5. Students are given the task to memorizing the expression. 1. Teachers read the words/ expression 2. Students repeat after the teacher chorally. 3. Students read one by one 4. Students memorize 5. Student guess the students question with closed book 3 Dialog Model Speaking 1. Teachers address students attention to the relate topic. 2. Teachers play the cassette or CD, students listen to. 3. Students take apart in a guided role play. 1. Students reread the dialog 2. Teacher divide the class into some group 3. Students take apart in role play (individually or chorely) 4. Teachers can ask students about the dialog (what, why, how, when, where, etc) 4 Dialog Practice Speaking Writing 1. Give student time to do the blank space on it. 2. Simply make a role play on each dialog practice. 1. Students fill the blank 2. Students take apart in role-play 3. Teachers check students work
- 12. NO Sub-lesson Skill Target Teaching Procedure Activities 5 Language Focus Grammar 1. Make some implementable examples of the language focus. 2. Try to describe the rule/pattern in the communicative approach 1. Teachers explain inductively or deductively the subject 2. Encourage students to see the pattern 3. Give students good rules 4. Teachers give a model usage in a real communication 5. Understanding involves example, explanation, practice 6. Teacher can construct games related to the grammar. 6 Exercise Writing 1. Elaborate the exercise with communicative 2. Give feedback to each exercise 3. Make sure that the students have tried to practice 1. Students can do the exercise as homework 2. Teacher should give feedback 7 Reading Reading 1. Discus the theme of the reading. 2. Make general questions based on the theme. 3. Explore the students’ idea on the theme. 1. Teachers ask some question in general related to the title of reading 2. Students identify the difficult word/ main idea 3. Students answer the question firmly 8 On Your Own Writing Speaking 1. The teacher can comprehensively elaborate student’s habit, activity, idea related to the directions. 1. Students do the direction as practical as possible. 2. Students practice what they have written 9 Listening Comprehensio n Listening 1. Do listening at the end of the lesson. 2. Try to make them as homework in order to be usual to listening. 1. It must be better as home work 2. Teacher give feedback and score
- 13. Describing picture, telling story, writing
- 15. How was your holiday?
- 17. Find the story
- 19. The Magic Dress
- 20. Intensive Reading Matching and Jumbled Text
- 22. I visited a village Reading,Writing
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