The role of the Teacher Flashcards
Characterize 3 core dimensions of good language teaching (Bonnet)
Language proficiency → Providung good language models, maintaining use of target language in the classroom
Content knowledge → being familiar with the content, evaluating and choosing materials, diagnosing learners learning problems
Teaching skills → Introducing and explaining tasks, ,checking students understanding, monitoring students’ language use
Describe the Van den Branden Egg
Inner circle: Interactional SUPPORT by teacher and other students
Expanding circle: Meaningful/relevant TASKS
Outer circle: Safe, positive ATMOSPHERE
Name three characteristics of good teaching practice (Helmke)
- Efficent time management and classroom leadership
- A productive atmosphere
- Structure and clarity
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
Dialogue A
S: The dog run fastly.
T: ‘Fastly’ doesn’t exist. ‘Fast’ does not take –ly. That’s why I picked ‘quickly’
= explicit provision of the correct form and clear indication that the student used an incorrect form
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
Dialogue B
L: I have gone to England last year.
T: Sorry, where did you say you went last year?
L: I went to England?
= implicit provision of the correct form
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
S1: Why you don’t like Marc?
T: Why don’t you like Marc?
S2: I don’t know, I don’t like him.
Recasts = involve the teacher’s reformulation of all or part of a student’s utterance, minus the error.
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
T: How often do you wash the dishes?
S: Fourteen.
T: Excuse me?
S: Fourteen.
T: Fourteen what?
S: Fourteen for a week.
T: Fourteen times a week?
S: Yes. Lunch and dinner
Clarification requests = indicate to students either that their utterance has been misunderstood by the teacher or that the utterance is incorrect in some way and that a repetition or a reformulation is required
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
S: We look at the people yesterday.
T: What’s the ending we put on verbs when we talk about the past?
S: e-d.
Metalinguistic feedback = contains comments, information, or questions related to the correctness of the student’s utterance, without explicitly providing the correct form
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
S: My father cleans the plate.
T: Excuse me, he cleans the ???
S: Plates?
Elicitation
▪completion of their own utterance (for example, ‘It’s a …’)
▪questions to elicit correct forms (for example, … How do we say x in English?’)
▪asking students to reformulate their utterance.
S: My father cleans the plate.
T: Excuse me, he cleans the ???
S: Plates?
What kind of Feedback Type is it?
S: He’s in the bathroom.
T: Bathroom? Bedroom. He’s in the bedroom.
S: We is…
T: We is? But it’s two people, right? You see your mistake? You see the error? When it’s plural it’s ‘we are’.
Repetition = teacher’s repetition of the student’s erroneous utterance (often by adjusting intonation to highlight the error). In this example, the repetition is followed by a recast:
