unit 7. didactic approaches
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UNIT 7.DIDACTIC APPROACHES
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To show different aspects taking part in the didactic approaches to language teaching.
To know the European Council approach towards language teaching and learning and the repercussion in the didactic approach.
To become aware of the different competences taking part in the communicative competence.
To reflect about our own didactic approach.
AIMS OF TODAY
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Initial questionnaire: discussion. (15 min.) Teacher’s speech on the topic (30 min.) Task 1: Questionnaire for group work (30
min.) Task 2: Questionnaire for group work (40
min.) Task 3: Writing a composition at home.
METHODOLOGY
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Which methodological and organizational measures should be taken in a school to put into practice a multilingual programme?
One of the main objectives of linguistic learning is that it should be useful for communication. What do you think of this statement? Do you think it has always been so?
“What we know of a language is directly related to the context where we have learnt it”. Do you agree with this statement? If not, according to you, what consequences will it have in the teaching of languages?
INITIAL QUESTIONNAIRE
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What does the statement “Language has to be the instrument and the object of learning” mean?
Do you agree with the following statement: “Good levels of language cannot be achieved with hours of language and the textbook”? If the statement is true, how can it be achieved? What does the curriculum say about this?
INITIAL QUESTIONNAIRE
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AN ACTION-ORIENTED APPROACH
We learn by doing.Any act of language learning or teaching is concerned with the following
dimensions:
Individual’s general competencesCommunicative language competence
Language activitiesDomains
Strategies, Tasks and TextsLanguage processes
Contexts
DIDACTIC APPROACHES
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COMPETENCE: knowledge, skills and characteristics that allow a person to perform actions.◦ KNOWLEDGE: Empirical knowledge and Academic
knowledge◦ SKILLS AND KNOW-HOW: ability to carry out
procedures◦ EXISTENTIAL COMPETENCE: individual
characteristics, personality traits and attitudes.◦ ABILITY TO LEARN: a mixture of the previous
items.
INDIVIDUAL’S GENERAL COMPETENCES
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RECEPTIVE ACTIVITIES:◦ Listening◦ Reading
PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES:◦ Speaking◦ Writing
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES:◦ Conversation ◦ Mediation
LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES
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Strategy: organised, purposeful and regulated line of action to carry out a task.
Task: purposeful action to achieve a given result. Text: any sequence of discourse related to a
specific domain. The action-oriented approach is centred on the
relations between:◦ The use of strategies linked to one’s competences◦ The perception of the situation or context (domain)◦ The task or tasks to be accomplished
The relationship between strategies, tasks and text depends on the nature of the task.
STRATEGIES, TASKS, TEXTS
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Broad sectors of social life in which social agents operate.
Public domain: ordinary social interaction Personal domain: family relations and
individual social practices. Educational domain: learning context. Occupational domain: activities and
relations in the exercise of a job.
DOMAINS
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Acquisition or learning? How do learners learn?
◦ Sufficient meaningful input exposure = acquisition. ◦ Sufficient meaningful input exposure + active
participation in communicative interaction = acquisition.
◦ Studying language rules and vocabulary = comprehesion and use (conscious learning)
Learners do not necessarily learn what teachers teach.
Conscious learning + sufficient practice
LANGUAGE PROCESSES
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COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
Linguistic competence
Sociolinguistic competence
Pragmatic competence
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An uneven and changing competence. Allows language switching. Not the simple addition of monolingual
competences. Promotes the development of linguistic and
communicative awareness and metacognitive strategies.
Speeds up subsequent learning.
PLURILINGUAL COMPETENCE
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DIRECT EXPOSURE TO AUTHENTIC L2 DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SELECTED L2 DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNICATIVE
INTERACTION IN L2 DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN SELECTED TASKS IN L2 AUTODIDACTICALLY GRAMMAR-FOCUS LEARNING OF L2 USING L1 AS
THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION GRAMMAR-FOCUS LEARNING OF L2 USING L2 AS
THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION OTHERS.
DIDACTIC APPROACHES TO LEARN A LANGUAGE
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1.- Do you think any of this approaches is more relevant than the rest to teach a language?
2.- It is the same in L1, L2 or L3?3.- Which approaches do you normally follow
in your everyday lessons?4.- Dou you use them because of the level of
the students, because of the aims of the curriculum, because of the type of textbooks?
TASK 1. QUESTIONNAIRE
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1. 3 Groups of six persons2. 1 secretary per group3. 15 minutes discussion4. 2 persons of each group go to another group5. 10 minutes discussion6. 2 persons of each group go to another group7. 10 minutes discussion8. Big group discussion
TASK 2. DISCUSSION
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GROUP 1: METHODOLOGY1.-The role of teachers, learners and media.2.-Textual considerations3.- Written considerations4.- Tasks, activities and texts.5.- Communicative strategies.6.- General competences.
TASK 2. DISCUSSION
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GROUP 2: LINGUISTIC COMPETENCES7.- Vocabulary and lexical selection.8.- Grammatical competence.9.- Formal exercises.10.- Pronunciation.11.- Orthography.
TASK 2. DISCUSSION
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GROUP 3: OTHER CONSIDERATIONS12.- The learner’s sociolinguistic
competence.13.- The learner’s pragmatic competence.14.- Errors and mistakes.
BIG GROUP CONCLUSIONS: secretaries
TASK 2. DISCUSSION
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Writing:a) Do you think that working on the curricular
basic skills means a significant change in our nowadays job?
b) From your viewpoint, which are the main challenges our educational system has for the 21st century? What do you think our pupils will need to become good citizens, competent, …?
TASK 3. HOMEWORK
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SEE YOU NEXT WEEKTHANK YOU
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