"Thinking in English" information structures task array
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The document outlines a curriculum developed by Lawrie Hunter for teaching English that focuses on various information structures such as sequence, comparison, and cause-effect relationships. It includes examples of input, usage practice, and authentic tasks to enhance language learning, such as sequencing activities and instruction techniques. Additionally, it touches on the implications of oral hygiene in space, emphasizing the unique challenges astronauts face with bacteria growth in zero gravity.
"Thinking in English" information structures task array
- 1. Thinking in English information structures task array JACET ESP, Toyo University, December 19, 2015 Lawrie Hunter lawriehunter.com lawriehunter@gmail.com
- 2. INPUT USAGE PRACTICE AUTHENTIC TASK EXPRESSION Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum: Description Classification Comparison Sequence Cause-effect Inference Pro-con Example: sequence
- 3. •Unit 2: Sequence • Input: listening and speaking: Giving directions and telling a story • Input: instructions and narration: Giving directions and telling a story •Usage practice: sequencing: The steps for making an omelette • Usage practice: giving instructions: Telling how to _______ • Input: narration: Mr. Nakamura’s Day: Dictation • Usage practice: writing: Mr. Nakamura's Sunday • Authentic task: narration: Putting a story in order • Usage practice: sequence words: Making a story better • Input: comparing instructions and narration: finding verbs and signal words • Authentic task: Get the gold! • Expression: Unit 2 final report: how Kenji and Junichi Got the Gold Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 4. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Input Sequence structure signals First To begin Then Next After that Finally At last In the end While + clause A, clause B After + clause A, clause B As + clause A, clause B When + clause A, clause B If + clause A, clause B Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 5. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Input Sequence structure signals Processing input containing signals 1. First I got up and then I went to the bathroom and had a shower. After that I got dressed and went to the kitchen. 2. First I took the milk out of the fridge. Then I went to the cupboard and got a glass. Finally I poured myself a glass of milk and drank it. Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 6. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Sequence structure signals Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 7. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Usage practice Graphics from sentences Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 8. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Usage practice Sentences from graphics Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 9. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Sentences from graphics Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 10. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Usage practice Ordering information Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 11. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Usage practice Combining sentences Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 12. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Input: register Finding structure signals and other lexical items Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 13. Input Usage practice Authentic task Expression Authentic task Real-world problem Example: sequence Hunter's knowledge structures curriculum
- 18. Sentence level pattern anchoring Putting things in places Anchoring types
- 19. Sentence level pattern anchoring Putting things in places Anchoring types
- 34. Pragmatics anchoring (next slide) Putting things in places Anchoring types
- 35. weightlessness the need to develop a better method of ensuring oral hygiene for those who spend long periods in space placed a mouse in an airplane and checked the rate of growth of streptococcus mutans….. in the mouse's mouth… at different levels of gravity. in zero gravity bacteria grew 40 to 50 times faster than on Earth increase in the growth rate of the bacteria that cause cavities the flow of saliva changes in a state of weightlessness less saliva is secreted in space… other bacteria in the mouth may afflict some space travelers with infectious diseases develop a toothbrush that will ooze toothpaste from the tips of the bristles and reabsorb it while the user is brushing his or her teeth use of water is restricted in space, astronauts swallow toothpaste after brushing their teeth increased chance of bacteria remaining on teeth Communication moves PROPOSAL PROCEDURE CLAIM What? The proposal is a distractor from the topic, a CLAIM. hunter systems Pragmaticsanchoring EXERCISE: Please identify the communication move for each minimap and write it in the corresponding box. Then write names of the relations between minimaps in the spaces between boxes. LIST of some moves: circumstance/background condition/extension elaboration/support sequence/procedure/list observation/result speculation/projection comparison/contrast need/objective application/enablement cause/result summary http://www.sfu.ca/rst/01intro/intro.html EXTENSION Research supporting claim CLAIM (fact: ‘according to”) LINK? (No rhet signal) Anchoring types
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- 38. Thank you for your kind attention. Don’t hesitate to write to me. I share! Lawrie Hunter lawriehunter.com lawriehunter@gmail.com