apart from promoting the kind of classroom dynamic
conducive to a dialogic and emergent pedagogy is to optimize language learning affordances,
by directing attention to features of the emergent language;learning can be mediated through talk,
especially talk that is shaped and supported
(i.e. scaffolded) by the teacher.
Luke Meddings & Scott Thornbury, Teaching Unplugged, Delta Teacher Development Series, 2009.
Who coined the term "scaffolding" to describe the co-construction of learning between learners and teachers? What was he trying to say through this?
In your opinion, what do you think it means to optimize language learning affordances?
Michael Long encourages us to focus on form, (1991) to draw our students' attention to linguistic elements as they arise incidentally in communication, to redress the weaknesses our language learners make and to help them to notice these - which requires the teacher to do more than simply provide the conditions of language to emerge: their language must be scrutinised, manipulated, personalised and practised; Nick Ellis suggests that 'by making the underlying patterns more salient' (1997) acquisition can be facilitated.
That is to say, if learners are having trouble identifying and abstracting patterns, seeing or understanding form, then their attention can be purposefully directed at them.
How? Why is this different from teaching with grammar McNuggets?
What strategies do you generally apply in your language teaching classrooms to keep your own students focused on their own particular areas of individual concern? What techniques work best?
Answer in the comments below or if you happen to have a blog, do write your own post explaining how this affects you and your work as an English language teacher.
And by the way, have really enjoyed travelling through the 'sphere, reading the posts and converations so far and am very much looking forward to learning from and sharing even more with you!
Karenne
The Blog Posts Challenge #3
- Dogme in the mind of a teacher by Nick Jaworski
- How do you scaffold by Mike Harrison
- For those who don't know by David Warr, Language Garden
- Affordance by Willy C. Cardoso
- Whether on a scaffold high by Diarmuid Fogarty
- Dogme with young learners by Sabrina de Vita
- Scaffolding by Rick Oprea
- Scaffolding, maps and possible routes by Cecilia Coelho
- Dogme teaching strategies by Anna Rolinska
- Challenge #1 Co-construction + the list of responding blogs
- Challenge #2 It's emergent? + list of responding blogs
- Challenge 4 Being Light
- Challenge 5 The Learner's voice
- Challenge 6 NNESTs vs NESTs
The Dogme Blog Challenge + links to the blogs discussing Dogme
The dogma of Dogme - background info & links
Dogme ELT - other stuff I've written on Dogme
S is for Scaffolding by Scott Thornbury
How to share on Twitter: use the #dogmeme hashtag
How to share your fellow teachers' blog posts with each other? Add/link to the blog(s) written on the subject on your post so they form a ring and your readers can travel on from post to post!
How to respond?
Comment below with short thoughts
Go to your nearest yahoo!group and share your opinions
with like-minded teaching colleagues
Blog it:
Write a list or tell a story,
compare lessons: dogme and non-dogme,
relate an experience, a contrary opinion,
quote research, your own theory,
submit mere musings, rant...
share an idea, a paragraph, a dictionary's definition
a beautiful photograph,come up with a clever sentence,
a video-log
an article or draft the bones of an essay,
share examples from your own classroom experience...
In short, be dogmeic: personalize your response!)
Important URLs to quote/link to in your post (if necessary):
- Teaching Unplugged: http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/titles/methodology/teaching-unplugged
- Scott Thornbury's website + articles: http://www.thornburyscott.com/
- Scott Thornbury's blog: http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/
- Luke Meddings' blog: http://lukemeddings.wordpress.com/
- Luke Meddings' on the Delta blog: http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/author/luke-meddings
- Dogme ELT in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_language_teaching
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