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The road ahead?
Any questions?
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- to make language learning more relevant to learners by enabling them to say what they want to say
- to give students a stake in their learning
- to motivate students in the run-up to controlled assessment
gather more data
evaluate outcomes - grades
3
increase number of staff involved
2
impacting on SoW: CA project half-term before Christmas
choice of (sub)contexts
1
Give them what they want,
what they really really want!
- teaching without/very few resources
- starting from what the learner knows - moving to what he/she wants to say
- focusing authentic communication
- What does that look like in practice?
DOGME:
- shaped by TEFL Dogme approach / "Teaching Unplugged" by Scott Thornbury (2009)
- learner = resource
- used at Tile Hill Wood on two levels:
- to select & introduce vocabulary in individual lesson
- to design units of work (controlled assessments)