Post on 15-Jan-2017
A Taste of Dogme for YLE
Duda Costa Marília Santos
Presentation MenuPrinciples
What is Teaching Unplugged?
Why?
About YLE
Lesson Plan
Activities
Routines
Portfolios
Principles
Interactivity between teacher and learners leads to co-construction of knowledge.
The most engaging material will come from the learners themselves.
Language emerges organically given the right conditions.
Principles
If used, materials should have relevance for the learners.
The teacher's role: to draw attentiom to features of emergent language.
Wright & Rebuffet-Broadus, 2013
What is Teaching Unplugged?
Conversation-driven
Materials-light
Focused on emergent language
Why?
Why are my students learning this?
How is it going to be useful?
What do they talk about when they are outside the classroom?
How can we teach them to communicate those things in English?
How can they notice they are learning?
What does it say about YLE?
YLE learn by doing. GRAMMAR
L2 as a natural alternative to L1.
Keep a record.
Personalise.
"(...) let learners know they are expected to be curious to increase motivation".
(Dörnyei, 2001)
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
ACTIVITIES
Favourite objects in class
Favourite objects in class
Elicit numbers and colours
Make a poster
Elicit classroom objects
Label objects
Vote on their 3 favourite objects
(Count the votes)
Produce a chart / sentences
My super hero
Teacher brings her super hero
Waits for sts to ask questions to the puppet
In the following lesson, sts bring their own toys
Ask questions, produce a text
Monsters
My routine
Teacher gives examples: On Monday I go to Cultura.
Sts respond, if they use L1, teach them how to say the activity in L2.
They put the activities on the floor.
They write or talk about them, looking for coincidences.
Book Project
Book ProjectWhat's your ______? Do you like ______?
Students invite their friends to school
Running dictation with gapped questions
Students complete the gaps with what they want
Students interview their friends
They produce a text about their friends
Last week
T makes a graph describing her week.
Sts respond
Sts do the same
Sts compare weeks, discuss, vote...
Sts write a short text
My opinion
My opinion
Elicit / Teach opinion adjectives
Students write sentences about their favourite films and their opinion about their schools
Teacher gets a sentence and students position themselves according to their opinion
Variation: students change positions if they agree
How does it smell / sound / feel / taste ?
Play parts of different songs, and students write their opinion
Fold their eyes and spray scents and ask their opinion
Fold their eyes and get objects with different textures and ask their opinion
Fold their eyes and have them taste different flavours and ask their opinion
Sometimes it fails..."Don't feel obliged to continue with activities that are
evidently not working or are
failing to facilitate learning".
Wright & Rebuffet-Broadus, 2013
ROUTINES
Class Menu
Making posters with new language
Making posters with new language
Reflecting on the lesson
Checklists
Vocabulary box
"Recording, reviewing and recycling instances of learner language".
(Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury, 2009)
By the end of the lesson...
Sts have to say a password before they leave.
Now I can...
Now I can...
PORTFOLIOS
Portfolios
Portfolios
Portfolios
Portfolios
Thank you!
Duda Costa - uabacosta@gmail.com
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