celta language skills related assignment
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CELTA – Language Skills Related Assignment
Read your centre’s rubric
carefully
What does this task ask you to
do?
Make your own materials
Real world task
Work for the teacher
Rewarding
Tailored to learners
Authentic materials
What??!NOT designed for
language learners
Newspaper articles
Magazine articles
Menus/ brochures
Song lyrics
Video clips
What aren’t authentic materials?
Three parts
1 2 3
Choose your materials
Devise and describe receptive skills tasks
Devise and describe productive skills tasks
some background reading
1
2
3..and..
Part 1Choose your text
Consider the group
One of the TP groups that you teach on the course?
Interests
Level
Length
Learners’ needs
Timetable fit
Don’t forget to include a copy of
the material!
Part 2Receptive tasks
Reading
Listening
Do some reading about receptive skills
A bottom up approachA top down approach SkimmingScanningLooking at text organisation/ genre Listening/ reading for gistListening/ reading for specific information
Sub-skills
Task type Short answerTrue/ FalseCloze/ Gap fillDetecting mistakesSummarizing
eg.
Be specific
Include your tasks as you would give them to the
learners
Part 3Productive tasks
Writing
Speaking
Do some reading about productive skills
Sub-skillsFluencyAccuracy Pronunciation Intonation and connected speechUsing different genres/ register Turn-taking skills Using discourse markers Text organisation – paragraphs/ topic sentences
Task type eg.Speaking
Discussion on issues arising from the text Role-play based on the scenario
Writing Using the article as a model Responding in writing
Again, be specific
Include your tasks as you would give them to the
learners
Using a text as a context for grammar and vocabulary work is a useful thing to do…
BUT …it is NOT what is asked for in this assignment
Remember
Background reading
Ur. Penny A course in language Teaching
Hedge, Tricia Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom
Nuttall, Christine Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language
White, G. Listening
Hedge, T. Writing
Grundy. P. Newspapers
Common reasons for resubmission
Text is not appropriate• Too difficult • Too easy• Too long • Content not
likely to appeal
Tasks designed for grammar or vocabulary NOT for skills practice
Specific tasks are not included
Lack of reference to background
reading
Go od
L u c k!
Thank you!