Communicative Competence, and Teaching Across Age and Proficiency Levels
Communicative Competence, and Teaching Across Age and Proficiency Levels
1. In a chart, using the language function "COMPLAINING" describe what and how you will develop each of the four elements of communicative competences (grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, strategic) in your students. Highlight all elements per competence; for example, when dealing with the grammatical competences, sub area: lexicon, write the most useful phrases that are used to
Communicative Language Competence Function Complaining Grammatical Morphology Teacher I do not know about Ed
Syntax
Phonology
I didnt understand your question, could you repeat again? Mister, my classmates told me, when I speak in front of them, I am not see them and I am not no muscle of my body. Teacher my classmates says when I
Description The student has problem understanding the past form of regular verb ED The student is facing a problem to use simple past, It is probably he is not capable to use the structure with simple past The student has a problem to understand the command that the teacher said The student not use body language and he seems as insecure when he pass in front of the public
Solution The teacher gives the student a list of the rule about the regulars verb and the rules.http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammarlesson-spelling-ed-forms.php#.Up1XKtLuI1I
The teacher has to explain and give to use the simple past and what are the axillaries when using negative form to use in the sentence.
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Discourse Pragmatic
The teacher shows a video about, how an expositor has to do when they are in front of the audience
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coherence
The student have to practice with his classmates ask the problem to and make conscious and correct them
Phonetic
talk to them, they do not understand what I am saying Mister, you said peel or feel
The student cannot disguise between the word the teacher said; it is probably that listening skill when listening to minimal pairs is not
The student has to improve the listening skills to understand most of the word that the teacher says. The teacher is going to give a link where
Sociolinguistic Morphology
Semantics
Pragmatics
Teacher I dont understand why some people says gonna and wanna Teacher would you like to explain what is the meaning of break a leg Miss, what is the meaning of dont bother me. Im leaving happy ever after
The teacher can give him a list of some informal contraction to the student.
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The student lacks of idioms when the student sees an idiom,, he takes it literally The student is not able to understand sarcasm that is why he does not understand it when other people speak using sarcasm.
The teacher could help the student, giving him a list of the most common idioms.
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The teacher give him a list with the meaning about the most common sarcasm.
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Strategic Phonology
Teacher,
The student
when I am lacks of talking and I technical do not know vocabulary how to say a word, I try to say it in the different way but I cant
vocabulary, that in the moment that he tries to convey the information, he has the words to do it.
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2- Explain how are you going to design a lesson plan when facing the Leaner Variable I: Teaching across age levels; who are the learners? Do a lesson plan for each type of learner taking in consideration the structure of a lesson plan.
The following lesson plans have been made taking into consideration three variables of the learners, children, teenagers, and adults which are teaching across age levels according to (Dobrila & Skela, 1998). The first lesson plan was made according to how the teacher is going to teach the class. It is important to know every aspect to the lesson plan like .. and try to fulfill this requirement of lesson plan. The class for children have to be funny due to children learn through playing and because is a childhood is a stage where they are more interested in playing rather than learning. The teacher has to do many activities to catch the attention to the student and not just teach as a traditional teacher. The lesson plan that I am going to do includes an activity to recall what the student did in the last class, for instance, my resource is a radio, I am going to encourage the students clap their hands in time with the music and then I am going to start my class with a set of pictures and the student are going to watch many people and they are going to identify the family member. The second lesson plan is for teenagers, aforementioned all lesson plans have to been made according to the needs of the students in this case they are teenagers we have to think how teenagers learn, in a way that they find interest the English language. Hence, I made the lesson plan using technology, due to, the teacher has to be innovator and in this way the teacher can catch the students attention. I design this lesson plan in the way that the students watch the parts of the house and the object that are inside of it through cannon projector, but also, at the beginning of the class, I start with a feedback in which I am going to start with a dynamic that consists in asking question about the last class, if the student does not answer he or she is going to stand up until it is his or her turn again. The last lesson plan was made for adults; the class was design for adults, it means, that to them the activity is to recall the last class topic, it is not a game anymore as the other previous lesson plans. In this one, the lesson plan for adults is focused in how the students analyze and how they have and how they have developed the four skills. Hence in this lesson plan I start recalling the last class topic and then they can give their points of view about the last class, and then the teacher is going to make dynamic that is about quotes and then, they are going to speak what they understand about. As you see, the student is going to develop speaking, and reading skills and analyzing sentences
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PBX. (503) 26243327 LESSON PLAN Teachers name: Celina Arely Morales Date: Nov. 13th, 2013 . Subject: English Section: A Unit: 5
Career: Bachelor Degree in English. Level: A2 Age level: 6-7
Topic
Warm-up activity
Achievement indicator
Procedure
Wrap-up activity
Timing
Teaching Resources
Pictures
Sit in a circle and sing song and encourage clapping their hand in time with the music.
students
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going to watch a set He is ____ of pictures that the teacher is going to Who is she? put on the and
10 min
Whiteboard
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Marker
sentences.
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correct and if the answer correct, him/her remind answer stimulate candy is not help to the and with
Radio
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the pictures
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PBX. (503) 26243327 LESSON PLAN Teachers name: Celina Arely Morales Date: Nov. 13th, 2013 . Subject: English Section: A Unit: 5
Career: Bachelor Degree in English. Level: A2 Age level: 14
Topic
Activity to recall
previous learning
The teacher is going to make an round table and then, the
Warm-up activity
Achievement indicator
Procedure
Wrap-up activity
Timing
Teaching Resources
Make
around
Computer
teacher is going to ask questions directly to one Parts of the house person the last about class
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video tongue
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PBX. (503) 26243327 LESSON PLAN Teachers name: Celina Arely Morales Date: Nov. 13th, 2013 . Subject: English Section: A Unit: 5
Career: Bachelor Degree in English. Level: A2 Age level: Adults
Topic
Activity to recall to previous learning Make table around and ask The
Warm-up activity
Achievement indicator
Procedure
Wrap-up activity
Timing
teacher to
is put
The going
teacher to
is give that
At the end of the class, the teacher is going to ask about what they saw in class
going
questions remembering Parts of the computer what they saw the last class and give the point of view about.
pamphlets
10
Cannon project
have the parts of How many parts_____ the computer and then the teacher is going to ask how many parts they can see in the and
reminding how many parts of the computer, which are and what is the function of each one. 10 35
Pamphlet
Marker
image
BEGINNER LEVEL When the teacher is going to teach beginners, he or she has to go slow, due to their level does not allow the fluency that the teacher has. The teacher has to use many methods to convey the information so the student can acquire the language easy and understanding what the teacher wants to convey. It is important to know, what kind of methods the teacher is going to do and what moment the teacher is going to use it. Aforementioned there are many methods and also techniques that help the teacher to convey the knowledge of the English language, one of them is repetition, it is the key to learning, especially with lower level language learners due to, they are developing the listening and the speaking skills, and also they are acquiring their own accent. An English teacher, we have to pronounce words in the correct way, due to, we are the guider and responsible that our students pronounce words in the correct way. Also, there are many ways to teach the English language, for instance, the teacher can use physical material; according with studies of some educators the student can learn more through image or physical object, due to, they remind what word was in the image or the name of the object that they saw in the moment when they were learning. The teacher has to be active and innovator to teach the English class, because, for the students, the English class is boring because the teachers teach the English language as if the students were in a high level. The teacher has to remember, the students do not have the level to understand all that the teacher is saying. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL In this level, the students are capable to understand what the teacher says, due to it is supposed the students have the basic vocabulary, the teacher feels more comfortable to speak in English, most of the students understand what the teacher tries to convey. But it does not have to be always, that they still are learning a foreign language; always the teacher has to have a learning environment without stress and taking into consideration the methods and techniques to help students to understand better the English language. In this level, the teacher can use techniques like making in pairs and conversation among them. Also the teacher has to be focus on the four skills, listening, speaking reading and writing, the teacher has to do many things to these skills begins to develop to each student, that is why, the teacher has to do a lot of activities for instance: in listening and speaking, the student can participate in shorts conversation, ask questions and answer, find the alternative to convey meaning, etc. Reading and writing, the teacher can bring material to the students so can reading in class, it could be stories, paragraph, etc. these activities let the student sees, how the words are order and it helps in writing skills
ADVANCE LEVEL The students are close to achieving their goals as bilingual students, get fluency close to the native people and get more vocabulary to establish a professional conversation, due to, in this level, the student is capable to handle a certain amount of technical vocabulary and the errors are relative rare in the four skills, but always, we have to keep in mind, they still are learning. In this level, the techniques that the teacher uses, are very different, for instance, the teacher use activities that help in the deeply way to develop the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, that is why, when the teachers teach the student that are in this advance level the techniques that they uses debate, writing essay, scamming and skimming reading material, etc. aforementioned, those activities support the student to develop their skills.
4. Choose digital resources you will include and describe how it will help students learn English according to your lesson plans. Lesson plan: children First of all, this resource helps the teacher to have funny class to student due to, it helps to catch the students attention and also the teacher does not fall on classical class. This resource helps the student to be more interest in the English class.
Radio
Lesson plan: teenagers These are resources to help the teacher catch the students attention, nevertheless, as teachers we have to be innovators due to as in this case it helps the student feel different way the class. In class this resource is going to help the students to know the parts of the house and get vocabulary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8i9_UD79vw At the end of the class, the teacher is going to use the same resource, but with the different goal. The students are going to watch a video about tongue twister and then they are going to try to do it, unravel the tongue and also, helps the student does not feel under stress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hQmaiuF6ZA
Lesson plan: adults In this case the teacher is going to put quotes that the students are going to analyze. Aforementioned these resources help the teacher catch the students attention. It can use it for different reasons, like in this case the teacher shows quotes to the student analyze and give their own opinion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOmN9P079n8