Topic 2 Flashcards
- Communication in the FLC
we can use several ways of communication, activities, time or children’s feelings can influence in our teaching practice.
We need a bank of resources to be understood in any situation.
Gestures and mime:
Youngers> hands in the mouth to be quiet
Olders > can represent vocabulary to avoid translation.
THE LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION
Teachers should be proficient at listening, speaking, reading and writing, these appeared in the FL area in a basic knowledge described in the minimum teachings Primary Education, Royal Decree 157/2022:
- Oral comprehension
- Oral Interaction
- Oral production
- Reading comprehension
- Written production
- Media and Information Literacy
According to Mashburn , the better the teacher’s communication skills are, the more effectively children can perform the task.
According to Dobbs and Arnold , the way that educators communicate with their students can positively affect their perception of school, their abilities and their motivation to succeed.
- Verbal and nonverbal communication.
TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
Communication styles vary from person to person. The four major types to communicate efficiently are:
- Verbal
- Nonverbal
- Written
- Visual
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Occurs when we connect with others using oral language.
It can be face to face, over the telephone, through video call…
Some verbal actions are casual while others are planned.
- Medium > verbal communication is either face to face or public
- Sound > The emotion that the individual is communicating with the tone of the voice.
- Vocabulary > How to turn sounds into words. flashcards, ppt…
- Etiquette > What you have to said in order to offend others.
Activities : Discussions, Debates, Skype, role plays…
NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Increase confidence an fluency and help to avoid inter cultural misunderstandings.
Is a system consisting of features often used together to aid expression.
Main components:
- Kinesics: body language
- Proxemics: use of space
- Oculesics: eye contact
- Chronemics: use of time
- Olfactics: smell
- Vocalics: tone of voice, volume, speed…
- Sound symbols: mmmm, er…uh….
- Silence
Posture - Adornment
- Locomotion: walking
Components founded in all known cultures:
- Signals> Tapping of a pencil in a silent room
- Signs> Scream for help
- Symbols> 🛑 Stop
- Icons> The white hose
- Gestures
Activities :
- Vocabulary with gestures
- play gestures
- dialogues based on silent viewing of a
- short movie scene
- short extract from a play
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Involves any interaction that makes use of the written word.
Activities:
- writing letters
- writing emails
- searching information for a project
- send postcards
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
It’s when communication occurs using any visual aid
Red to indicate danger
Facial expressions, personal appearance, gesture, posture, sign, signal, symbol, map, graphic…
Activities:
- Posters
- Flashcards
- PPT
- Stories
- mind maps…
- Extralinguistic strategies
We need to create a relaxed atmosphere and don’t force an oral production stage.
Spoken communication is not performed by speaking, which is purely verbal, but also by such paralinguistic devices as gestures, facial expressions, miming…
While linguistic abilities may operate on a verbal layer, communicative abilities operates on both the verbal and non verbal features of discourse.
It’s important to note that some of this nonverbal acts are culturally related. Ok gestured in UK means that everything is fine, but in France is rude.
Nowadays certain attempts have been made to use Extralinguistic responses to linguistic messages in language instruction.
TPR is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action. It attempts to teach language through physical activity.
It was developed by James Asher in the 1960s.
It’s necessary to connect the TPR method with the first stage of the language acquisition process called the silent period , which is characterized by the fastest acquisition of understanding faster than production, comprehension precedes production.
TPR is linked to several methods of language teaching which share the belief that:
- comprehension precedes production
do not teach speaking until - comprehension skills are established
- skills acquired through listening transfer to other skills
- we should emphasize meaning rather than form
- we should minimize learner stress
- Nonverbal reaction to messages in different contexts
Teachers should use gestures and mime in many different ways. These can aid the students in communicating, understanding and participating during the lessons.
EXAMPLES
- Vocabulary : to introduce it or avoid translation
- Instructions : clap and point to the clock for example instead of saying tidy up.That will help them to be quiet because you don’t brake the silence
- Dialogues: to be understood
- Production : Guess the animal with mine
- Culture : Halloween: costumes, face painting, arts and crafts…
