Learning Languages
My General Practice
- Engage students
- Express what is compelled
- Enjoy the interaction
- Experience English in use
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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My Teaching
General Practices
- Children = 0%
- Interaction = 0%
- Content, Stages and Aims = 0%
- Our Seasons, Lessons, and Content Solutions
The Gray Space:
Negotiate Gray areas by standing between the black and the white spaces.
- G – General Practices and ways of being
- R – Researchers and their Research
- A – Application through teaching
- Y – Your research on your practice