Teaching Grammar Complete

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Here are the complete teaching grammar activities! We focus in Unit 2 "Technology and technological innovations" and we use different grammar methods to do the activities.

Language Awaress Technique

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The grammar is so structured to teach students, the idea is to build new things that the student will be able to learn with a meaningful learning.


For students of English pedagogy learn new methods and techniques is so necessary because we will be able deliver a good learning when we teach a second language.



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Camila Carvajal
Yessenia Morales

Lexical Approach activities

Lexical Approach is a very important part of learning a second language, this concept consists students learn grammar through meaningful inputs. In this new post you can see my activities in catedra II about Lexical Approach.


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The Lexical Approach ( summary)

Formulaic phrases

Chunks

Frozen expression

Prefabricated phrases

Collocations

• Input     -> Written: articles, e-mails, letters, brochures, posters

                               ->  Oral: videos, songs, interviews, TV programs, documentaries,movies

1. Form: spelling, part of speech, word formation

       2.  Meaning:  - Connotation (association) -> Ex: blood->pain                                   

                                                                        Chocolate-> happiness                                  

                                                                        Trip -> adventure

                                  

                      - Denotation (definition)-> head -> Part of the body

                                                                     -> Chief, boss

            

    3. Use: Context clues     -> forms

                                             ->  inform/ colloquial

                                             -> Slang

         Cultural groups    ->   audience

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"The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) is an instructional model for second and foreign language learners based on cognitive theory and research. CALLA integrates instruction in priority topics from the content curriculum, development of the language skills needed for learning in school, and explicit instruction in using learning strategies for academic tasks.


The goals of CALLA are for students to learn essential academic content and language and to become independent and self-regulated learners through their increasing command over a variety of strategies for learning in school."

Metacognition: An Overview (Summary)

Metacognition refers to higher order thinking which involves active control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning. Metacognition enables us to be successful learners, and has been associated with intelligence. Because metacognition plays a critical role in successful learning, it is important to study metacognitive activity and development to determine how students can be taught to better apply their cognitive resources through metacognitive control.

"Metacognition" is often simply defined as "thinking about thinking." In actuality, defining metacognition is not that simple, there is much debate over exactly what metacognition is. The term "metacognition" is most often associated with John Flavell . According to him, metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and  metacognitive experiences or regulation.

Metacognition

Possible ways to foster Metacognition

• Connect between prior knowledge with new content.
• Identify what the students will be learning.
• Explain what the goals of a class
• Interactive activities for meaningful learning
• If the students have questions, help them to clarify in the process
• Self - evaluation
• Ask students if the acquired the goals.

What is automaticity?

Automaticity is an automatic response; it is the ability to do things unconsciously. This is the result of a repetitive activity.

How do we develop automaticity?

We can develop automaticity with practices and repetitive activities, so we will be able to save in our brain.

Create an example of how teachers can change the amount of " extraneous cognitive load" on an assignment?

The teacher uses prior knowledge to connect students with new content. Also the teacher guides the student with interactive resources, reducing stress and facilitating learning.

When have you felt that you had a "full" cognitive load?

I have felt that I had a full cognitive load, when I have to read a long text and do not understand everything, when I have to study for many tests in a short time, also when I do not understand new contents and the teacher does not explain.

Catedra I

The Lesson Plan is essential for a teacher, because this way the teacher preparation and planning each class.  A lesson plan traditionally includes the name of the lesson, the date of the lesson, the objective the lesson focuses on, the materials that will be used, and a summary of all the activities that will be used. Lesson plans are a terrific set of guidelines for substitute teachers.
                                    
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Reflection of Book Touchstone 1

 A textbook is a result of a work of a group of people that study what is the best for the students, considering this point people thinks that all the textbook are perfect but is not always the truth. Touchstone 1 is a textbook using in Chile in university to student can learn English easiest. In our evaluation of this textbook is that this book has the objectives and instruction very clear, and have activities after 3 activities and is very useful for the metacognition of the students.  It's very useful and all learning styles like kinesthetic activities, visual and auditory. It has a lack of cognitive tempo and not possibilities of a new input in the activities, is to systematic . Is very easy to understand for students and for the teacher, and it has a lot of layouts. In conclusion , is not a perfect book , but is very close to it.

Evaluating a textbook

Touchstone I

Camila Carvajal and Yessenia Morales

SIOP Lesson Plan Template

The SIOP Model seeks effective way to help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The SIOP Model helps teacher plan and deliver lessons that allow English learners to acquire academic knowledge as they develop English language proficiency.

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Keyla Castro
Carolina Mariscal
Yessenia Morales
Carla Quintanilla
Constanza Valdivia

Hands - On Activity

Hands-On learning is learning by doing, in this technique the most important is the process of learning, and the students will able to apply what they have learned and become critical thinkers. Hands-On Learning is a technique where students will be able to learn through to manipulate classroom materials to help develop an understanding of the concepts. This is the most motivation way for students have maningful learning.

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (presentations)

KEYWORDS


The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching:

• The learner has to listen and repeat
• The teacher has the control of the content
• Language learning is habit - formation
• It is useful for beginners
• Pur emphasis in grammar and pronunciation

Communicative Language Teaching:

• Communicative competence
• Contextualization (social - culture)
• Learner- centered and experience based
• Meaning is paramount
• Group and pair work, interaction between students.

Total Physical Response

Click Here to see Our Presentation  ( Camila C., Cynthia & Yessenia)

TPR Video

Practical work

-Type of school: particular-subvencionado (Rebeca Fernández)
-Number of students per classroom: 31 students
-Number of hours a week: 4 hours

-Textbook: In this school teacher used the textbook given for MINEDUC, every classes students did the activities in this textbook.

The nature of approach and methods

In this chapter we saw the nature  of methods and to explore the relationship between theory and practice a method.

Approach and Method


In nineteentn century ->  referring to general principles and theories:

• How language are learned?
• How knowledge of language is represented and organized in the memory?
• How language itself is structured?

                                                    they elaborated principles

Henry Sweet (1845 - 1912)              and accountable  approaches

Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) -> of language teaching programs,

Harold Palmer (1877 - 1949)                 courses, materials, etc...

Introduction

What is methodology?

"Methodology can properly refer to the theoretical analysis of the methods appropiate to a field of study or to the body of methods and principles particular to a branch of knowledge." (The free dictionary)  

Methodology is a process where the future teachers have to find the techniques and tools necessary for achieve, they have to the responsability to choose the correct way.