How to Activate Reading & Listening: English Lab Upper Classes English Language Department Al-Aqsa School Dec., 2015 Abdelmoneim Hassan Adam Khamis abdelmoneim09@hotmail.com akmes@ala
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Reading &
Listening: English
Lab Upper Classes English Language
Department Al-Aqsa School Dec., 2015
Abdelmoneim Hassan Adam Khamis
abdelmoneim09@hotmail.com
akmes@alaqsa.edu.sa
0557083091
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1 Introduction
“Tell me, I forget.
Show me, I remember.
Involve me, I understand.” Confucius, circa 450BC
Shift from Teaching to Learning
PPP to EAS
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2 The Focus
through:
Backward Design
(begin with the end in mind)
1 What should students know & be able to do?
2 How will students demonstrate what they know & can do?
3 What activities will students experience to prepare them to demonstrate what they know & can do?
Stephen Covey, 1996
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1 Material Structure:
2 Who compiles learning resources? (Sample)
3 In the lab:
4 What’s the teacher ’s role in the EL Lab?
5 Why? The Theoretical Framework
6 Recap:
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a) Interactive CD
b) Practice CD
c) Carton Movie DVD
d) Enrich Materials
e) Short Stories
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The Structure of
Material
Intera ctive CD
Practic
e CD
Short Storie s
Enrich Materi als
Cartoo
n Movie DVD
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3.2 Who compiles the
resources?
1 Cooperative work
2 Collaborative work
3 Lab Teacher edits, classifies and grades the
materials to levels alongside weekly lesson plan.
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3.3 In the English Lab
1 No Students’ Books
2 No Workbooks
3 No Worksheet
Learning through experience
Learning by games
Learning by doing
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3.4 What is the
Teacher’s Role?
1 Designs activities _ “ Backward Designer ”.
2 Scaffolds learning activities.
3 Creates learning environment.
4 Facilitates learning.
5 Guides learners
6 Assesses/evaluates learners’ abilities.
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All the roles should be done through CALL.
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Framework
A Mixed approach:
1 Learning through experience (Dewey, 1938)
2 Multiple Intelligences Theory (Gardner, 2001, 1983-93)
3 Cognitive & Metacognitive Strategies (constructivism)
4 Input Hypothesis (Krashen, 1988 & 1987)
5 Active Learning (Kagan, 1998)
6 Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised Hierarchy 2001)
7 Backward Design (Stephen Covey, 1996)
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The Main Schools of Learning
Constructivism
Interactional View
Cognitivism
Functional View
Behaviorism
Structural View
Change in Behavior
Habit formation
S - R
Change in information
Convey meaning
Mental Process
Change in Knowledge
Interaction & Negotiation of Meaning
Knowledge construct
1- Gestalt’s Insight, 1950s 2- LAD/UG by Chomsky, 1960s & 70s 3- The Monitor Model by Krashen, 1980s
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1 Reading & Listening are psycholinguistics games.
2 Practice Listening
3 Gear Reading to Listening
4 How to evaluate/assess listening & Reading?
Individually, we can evaluate/assess Learners’
Reading through Practicing Listening
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Education is what people do for others
Learning is what learners do for him/herself.
Reading Power Increases Learning.
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References:
Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl (Eds.) (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives New York: Longman
Bloom, B.S and Krathwohl, D R (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, by a committee
of college and university examiners Handbook I: Cognitive Domain NY, NY: Longmans, Green
Dewey, J (1938) Experience and education Kappa Delta Pi, 1938
Gardner, H (1993) Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice New York: Basic Books.
Gardner, H (2006a) Multiple intelligences: New horizons in theory and practice New York: Basic Books.
Krashen, Stephen D (1987) “Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.” University of Southern California First
printed edition 1981 by Pergamon Press Inc Print Edition ISBN 0-08-025338-5 First internet edition December 2002
Krashen, S D (2002) “The comprehension hypothesis and its rivals”, In Selected papers from the Eleventh International Symposium on
English Teaching/Fourth Pan-Asian Conference (pp 395-404) English
Krashen, S D (2004), The Power of Reading Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Krashen, S D (2004) “Free Voluntary Reading: New Research, Applications, and Controversies”, The Paper presented at the RELC
conference, Singapore, April, 2004
Krashen, S D (2013) “Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition: supporting evidence and some objections”, Iranian Journal of Language
Teaching Research 1(1), (Jan., 2013) 27-43
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Thank you for
your time.
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Abdelmoneim Hassan Adam Khamis
Al-Aqsa School, Upper Classes
English Department
Dec, 2015