2014 December in TESOL

Dec. 5 - Unit 10 Exposure & Focus on Form
Activities
1) review, revise and collect Unit 10 Reading Review I
2) hand out, read through and assign Unit 10 Reading Review II
3) do video discussions with worksheets and/or quizzes

• refer to The Communicative Language Teaching Approach (wikipedia entry)
• view video: Communicative Language Approach lesson
• do video worksheet Communicative Language Approach Video Worksheet

4) hand out, discuss and assign Unit 10 Opinion Writing
Optional exercise: do Unit 10 Reading Review II

Homework
1) do Unit 10 Opinion Writing


Dec. 12 - Unit 11 The Role of Error
Activities
1) review, revise and collect Unit 10 Opinion Writing
2) do Unit 10 Activity Worksheet
3) do Unit 11 Discussion Activity 1

Homework
1) reread Unit 11
2) complete Unit 11 Reading Review
3) do Unit 11 Opinion Writing


Dec. 19 - Unit 11 The Role of Error
Activities
1) check Unit 11 Opinion Writing
2) assign and begin working with Unit 11 Reading Review, leave some questions for HW
3) do Self-Editing Presentation, show example self-editing devices from 英語ライティング演習
4) do Group Paragraph Editing Exercise

• use Error/Slip Log

*Optional Learning Resources: Error Correction Links and Videos

• Error Correction
• 8 English Sentences: Find the Mistakes
• 5 Non-Verbal Ways to Do Error Correction
• How to Correct English Writing Errors
• How Do Hong Kong English Teachers Correct Errors in Writing?
• Error Correction 1

Homework
1) read Unit 13 Learner Characteristics
2)

TESOL Approaches and Methodologies
*Optional: do video discussions with worksheets and/or quizzes

• Comprehension Approach/Total Physical Response (Ascher)
• The Structural Approach: Video I and Video II
• The Direct Method
• Audio Lingual Method
• The Silent Way (Gateggno)
• Suggestopedia (Lazanov)
• The Natural Approach (Terell and Krashen)
• Community Language Learning