Learning Languages
The Basics
- ENGAGE students
- USE compelling input
- ENCOURAGE output
- PROVIDE desirable feedback
- REPEAT processes
The ABC of SLA (Pecha Kucha)
One Strategy Scott Thornbury has used to map his knowledge is through his blog. I have linked to several of the ideas he made during KOTESOL’s Pecha Kucha in South Korea.
- A – Acquisition
- B – Behaviors
- C – Chomsky’s Computer Cognition
- D- Dynamic Systems
- E – Emergent Environments
- F – Frequency
- G – Grammar
- H – Holistic
- I – Interactions
- L – L2
- M – Massive Input
- N – Noticing
- O – Output
- P – Point of Need
- R – Repetition (whole tasks)
- S – Scaffolding
- T – Task-based Learning
- U – Unplugged Usage
- V – Voice
- ZDP (Zone of Proximal Development)
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Rhett's Observations, Reflections and Research at Burton's School
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