Tuesday, May 30, 2017

The four skills and how to teach them


In this post you will find the summary of how to teach the four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. 

How to teach reading: 

Pre
·         To tell them the objective of the class.
·         Motivate the students (it is needed in the three steps).
·         Present the keywords (you should not teach more than 10 and you have to use the same in the activities).
·         You can start the class with some activities in order to introduce them to the topic. Such activities are: by observations with visual aids, brainstorming and activate previous knowledge.
·         Skimming and/or scanning.
During
·         The lecture that they will read has to be from the same level that they are and you have to follow the instructions from the contenidos necesarios according to Mineduc.
·         The lexicon and grammar have to be part of the activities (2-3 items for the worksheets).
·          Receive the information, understand, produce and they practice.
Post
·         To ask them if they were interested in the reading.
·         To do a summary of what they learned.
·         To do the feedback.
·         To see if the information was meaningful.
·         Always to ask to our students if they reach the objective of the class.
·         Check understanding, evaluate, the metacognition.
How to teach listening:

Pre
·         To tell them the objective of the class.
·         Motivate the students (it is needed in the three steps).
·         To explain the accent of the audio that they will listen and to talk about the importance of the pronunciation.
·         Use visual aids.
·         To explain about the type of text (for the activity of listening and to skimming it).
·         Understandable instructions.
During
·         Listen once just that they get familiarized with the audio and then listen twice, in order that at the end they can answer the activity (they can listen it a third time, but it is optional and not that recommended).
·         In the second time that they are listening to help them answer the activity by chunking the audio.
·         They have to noticed lexicon and grammar.
Post
·         A ludic activity.
·         To do a summary of what they learned.
·         To do the feedback.
·         To see if the information was meaningful.
·         Always to ask to our students if they reach the objective of the class.
·         Check understanding, evaluate, the metacognition.

How to teach speaking:

Pre
·         To tell them the objective of the class.
·         Motivate the students (it is needed in the three steps).
·         Use visual aids.
·         Understandable instructions.
·         To “push” the students to speak with triggering questions.
During
·         Explain the activity by modeling.
·         Always will be better for them if they work in pairs and/or groups with their classmates, because they could feel more confident.
·         To perform.
·         The stress, rhythm and intonation are also important.
·         Drilling activities.
·         Use repetition carefully and not to overuse it.
·         The speed is also important, but always to be aware that our students may not “reach” this because of their level.
Post
·         A ludic activity.
·         To do a summary of what they learned.
·         To do the feedback.
·         If we listened that they committed some mistakes with the pronunciation of words, to modelate the word(s), so they can listen again.
·         Always to ask to our students if they reach the objective of the class.
·         Check understanding, evaluate, the metacognition.

How to teach writing:

Pre
·         To tell them the objective of the class.
·         Motivate the students (it is needed in the three steps).
·         Use visual aids.
·         To show key words in context.
·         To teach the sound, form and pronunciation (accuracy).
·         To model.
During
·         Sketching, brainstorming, listing, questioning, modeling and pair sharing.
·         Some of the activities that they can do are: writing journals, fill-in-the-blanks activity, worksheets.
·         Also copying things is useful for them.
Post
·         A ludic activity.
·         To do a summary of what they learned.
·         To do the feedback.
·         To explain the words that we noticed they have problems with.
·         To answer some doubts of the use of some words, in case they did not understand how to use it/them.
·         Always to ask to our students if they reach the objective of the class.
·         Check understanding, evaluate, the metacognition.


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