March 2012

Theoretical Foundations of ESL

teaching / learning - LET 132

Professor Reinildes Dias, Ph.D.

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About the present (here and now)

Literacy: a broad concept.

Development of students’ capacity to communicate in English

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Development of students’ sense of citizenship.

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Development of students’ capacity to interpretmultimodal texts of different genres.

A shift from linguistics to semiotics

A shift from emphasis on language alone (theverbal code) to a focus on different semioticcodes.

Features of present Applied Linguistics studies

http://tinyurl.com/mr-been-warmwelcome

Watch this video. List the semiotic codes used to convey the message.

Semiotic codes or modes

Linguistic - oral and written language: use of vocabulary & grammar

Visual - still & moving images, colors.

Auditory – music & sound effects: use of volume, pitch & rhythm.

Gestural – facial expressions & body language.Spatial – layout & organization of objects & space.

(Multi)Literacy involves students’ capacity to function appropriately in a (multi) literate environment.

This (multi)literate environment includes reading, writing, and producing multimodal texts.

Sociocultural theories

the importance of societal attitudes and group membership.

Multimodality

Expresses meaning through different semiotic modes.

Invites multiple interpretations.

Multimodality

Influenced by digital technologies and how they have transformed our communicational landscape.

The world told is a different world to the world shown. Kress, 2003

Digital native or digital immigrant?

PRENSKY. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: http://tiny.cc/aXomB

Digital nativesCommitment to our digital native students.

Less downloads,

more uploads!

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/

http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html

http://top25.podcast.com/

Reception:

LISTENING to podcasts

Production:

Creating podcasts

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/index.html

Reception:LISTENING

Production:SPEAKING

Create movies in English with

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER Video production

DIAS, R. Websites, video clips, trailers, movies and podcasts in developing students’ oral skills in English. 2010. http://tiny.cc/n8cae

Reception:Reading

Production:Writing

A WebQuest about WebQuests by Reinildes Diashttp://web.me.com/reinildes/Site_3/A_Web_Quest.html

Reading. Researching. Collaborating. Learning.

Creating your own WebQuest by Reinildes Diashttp://web.me.com/reinildes/Site_6/Creating_a_WQ.html

Reading. Writing. Collaborating. Revising. Learning.

Less downloads, more uploads!

WebQuests: guided research on the web.

A multimodal learning environment.

http://webquest.org/index.php

DIAS, R. Webquests no processo de aprendizagem de L2 no meio on-line. Disponível em www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes

Web tools in ESL

teaching & learning.

Thank you very much

diasreinildes@gmail.com

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www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes

www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes

Portal for the English Teacher

http://tinyurl.com/portalreinildes