Learning Reflections 15 of Seminar in English Language Teaching

Learning Reflections 15

Seminar in English Language Teaching

 

25 April 2017

Professor taught and summarize about Communicative approaches.

 

1. Communicative approaches were influenced by functional linguistics.

Goal: To enable learners to develop communicative competence in order to use the target language in communication.

Classroom activities:

-          Tasks that require students to share information and negotiate meaning

-          Include problem-solving tasks, role-plays, simulates and games, and usually exclude use of L1

-          Students are expected to play active roles through “negotiating for meaning” thus, they are expected to interact primarily with each other rather than with the teacher.

-          Students have opportunities to experiment with new language.

-          Pair work and group work.

-          Integrated skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing

-          Use of authentic tasks and ”realia”/ authentic material to promote students’ communication

Teacher’s role

Been and Candlin(2001) specifics a variety of role:

-          Facilitator

-          Interdepentdent participant

-          - organizer of resources, a resource, and a guide

-          Researcher

Richard and Rodger(2001)

-          Analyst

-          Counselor

-          Group process manages

Learner-centeredness

                Learner-centeredness has four central characteristics:

1.       Learner participant in the whole process of the course content and selecting learning procedures

2.       Learner participant in the design of language activities

3.       Learner are encouraged to take responsibility to a great degree of their learning

4.       Enhancing learner autonomy

Constraints of CLT

-          Focus on fluency over accuracy

-          Learner and teacher roles

-          Cultural appropriacy: ESL and EFL

-          Student’s lack of target language exposure

-          Traditional teaching and learning culture

-          Teacher expertise and student English proficiency level

-          Lack of learning resource/ support

-          Class size

            Professor assigned me to read Sociocultural Theory of Vygotsky.  I read Sociocultural Theory as an Approach to Aid EFL Learner and then, I read “ The relevance and implications of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory in the second language classroom of MAMOUR CHOUL TURUK”.

            I find easy in the journals that the teacher has explained already.There is no a difficult points in this week.My attitude is better that last week because I can understand the lesson clearly.