Language
Teaching
• 1. What are the approaches in learning and
teaching of a new language ?
i. Presentation with application
- provide a meaningful context
- involvement of learners
- presentation related to function
- awareness of why and how
ii. Practice with application
- opportunity to practise it thoroughly
- meaningful learning activities
iii. Production with application
- need to produce
- product is meaningful
2. What are the language content and skills areas
in an English language programme ?
English Language Programme
• New language items and structures
• Specific listening- comprehension targets
• Intensive reading of passage in the
textbook and specified reading skill
• Oral English programme (Content for
spoken English)
• Supplementary learning activities
• Vocabulary work
• Guided writing tasks
• Passages for dictation, spelling and
punctuation skills
• Poems , dialogues etc. for memory work
• Drama, role-play , music
Specify objectives for the
English Language Programme .
1. Selection of content
Language items + Vocabulary
Materials
• Stories
• Poems
• Songs
• Dialogues
• Playlets
2. Selection of skills
Skills
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listening
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speaking
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reading
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writing
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sound system
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grammar
• Selection of teaching strategies
( Play- way methods + Topic or thematic approaches +
Communication skills approaches )
Activities
• Role-play
• Music
• Dialogues
• Story-telling
• Acting
4. Guide-lines for selection of Content, Skills and
Strategies
• Content
a. Simple sentence structures and
vocabulary used in everyday situation.
b. Language forms used in everyday
communications – questions, requests,
statements
c. Language items and vocabulary related
to a topic or theme
• Skills
a. At initial stage , only listening and
speaking skills are taught. (serious work)
Reading and writing are introduced later
b. Simple sub-skills will be selected for
beginning stages
c. Selected skills may be taught separately
on in activities where skills integrated
• Strategies
a. Methods will be activity centred and to be
related to the pupils interest and
enjoyment
b. A topic or thematic approach will give
interest and focus to the learning
experience
c. Skills in language will be related to
language functions in communications.
What is Supplementary Learning
Programme?
• Learning activities that a teacher can
freely innovate
• Activities that devise imaginative and
purposeful learning
• Activities that make full use of the learning
time
Aims of the Supplementary Learning Programme
• To provide variety of English language learning
activities which are not specifically prescribed in
the syllabus and textbook but which suit the
needs and interest of the learners
• To encourage pupils to work at a level and with
materials which they find both purposeful and
challenging
• To organize supplementary activities in such a
manner that maximum use is made of the time
available for learning throughout the school term
and year
Types of Supplementary Activities for English.
Short activities ( 10-15 minutes)
- Focus on specific skills / integration of skills
- May be self-instructional / end of a lesson
• Language games
• Songs
• Rhymes, poems, riddles
• Vocabulary cards
• Listen and do activities
• Listen and read
Types of Supplementary Activities for English.
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Longer activities ( 30- 40 minutes)
Done in class or part of extracurricular programme
Can be assigned as homework
Reading cards (self instructional)
Supplementary readers
Read and do/ make/ write/ draw
Listen and read/write
Games/Songs/Poems
Drama, role-play
Debates, discussions, Young speakers
Types of Supplementary Activities for English.
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Project / Thematic work ( 3-4 weeks or 1 term)
Work/activities extended for a long period of time
Project work
School/Class visits, outing
Exhibitions for library week
English Language weeks/ month
English Language magazine
Interclass/ house competitions
School plays/ English concerts
Project books
7. Integrated Language Skills
Activities.
A teacher must identify the kind of integrated
language activities to be used in class
and the purpose of such integration
Study the :1. Advantages of integrating language
skills
2. Advantages of practising specific
language skills separately
Integrated language activities that you carry out in your
classroom.
• Making a weather chart
• Talking and writing about a flowering plant
• Finding out (orally) about a ‘wanted’
person and write a description
• Making a model
• A class mini survey