Integrating Language Skills: Content, Tasks, and Themes
Integrating Language Skills in Curriculum Design
Segregation vs. Integration
Segregation:
- Focus on language forms predisposes curriculum designers to segment courses into separate language skills.
- Administrative considerations often make it easier to program separate courses.
- Specific purposes for which students are studying English may be best labeled by one of the four skills, especially at the high intermediate to advanced levels.
Integration:
- Production and reception are two sides of the same coin.
Understanding Language Varieties: Cultural and Social Influences
Item 6. The Cultural Varieties and Records, Classes, and Types
For communication to occur successfully, the speakers of a language must know the common code of that language and use it properly.
In practice, we can see a number of factors (geographical, cultural, or situational) that contribute to the diversity seen in the use of a language. These factors are:
- Location: The particularities in the use of a language result in different dialects. Example: Castilian (Murcia, Extremadura, Andalusia, and
Crafting English Curriculum: Material Selection & Student Input
Unit 23: English Speaking Language Curriculum Materials
UNIT 23: Elaboration of English Speaking Language curriculum materials. Criteria for selecting and using course books. Authentic and adapted documents: limitations of use. Students input in material design. The present essay aims to study the production of English lessons curricular material. In order to do so, the first part of the essay will examine the profile of the students. Secondly, I will concentrate on the production of English lessons
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Optimal Language Learning Conditions
Essential Conditions (According to Jane Wills)
- Exposure: Rich and comprehensible input of real spoken and written language.
- Use: Active application of the language for meaningful communication.
- Motivation: Drive to engage with the language through listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Desirable Conditions
- Instruction: Opportunities to focus on language form and structure.
Extroverts and Introverts in Language Learning
Both extroverts and introverts can be successful
Read MoreUnderstanding Textual Properties: Fitness, Coherence, and More
Understanding Textual Properties
Fitness: Fitness is a textual property where the message appropriately fits the situation, the text being issued, and the purpose of the issuer. For appropriate text, the author must consider the characteristics of the recipient, the subject matter, and the situation in which the text will be received.
Coherence
Coherence is the property that guarantees the unity of meaning in a text. It presents ideas around a single theme and structures them logically.
Global Consistency
Global
Read MoreEnhancing Foreign Language Learning: Audiovisual & Tech
Technological and Pedagogical Aspects of Audiovisual Materials
The present essay aims to study the use of new technologies and audiovisual techniques when teaching a foreign language. To do so, the first part of the essay will concentrate on visual materials. In addition to this, some activities will also be presented using visual materials. Secondly, I will consider the aural materials, then I will focus on the audiovisual materials. The last part of the essay will deal with Computer-Assisted Language
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