Anyone teaching K-12, resource teachers, and curriculum developers. You will learn about the most common stress, rhythm, intonation, and consonant and vowel trouble spots and then explore materials and techniques for improving intelligibility and implementing pronunciation practice in meaningful, motivating speaking activities. ESOL teachers in higher and adult education, especially those with limited experience in practical classroom approaches to teaching pronunciation. You will leave equipped with a dynamic instructional plan, extensive reproducible materials, and practical tools for assessing developing ESL readers and writers in content-based instruction.
Authentic materials offer rich resources for creating grammar lessons.
Teachers of adult education and IEPs who want to learn more effective ways of teaching grammar. As teachers, we need to teach students how to listen, not just have them listen. In this workshop, you will engage in group discussion on some of the underlying principles of teaching listening and then examine the details of what Mendelsohn calls a strategy-based approach. This will include linking the teaching of listening comprehension to the body of theoretical literature on learning strategies. Working in small groups, you will then learn how to plan a strategy-based program.