Rob Dean

Many Years ago, in a classroom far, far away…

Famous textbook beginnings

This is a pen.

My tailor is rich.

Do you have your best friend? What do you do with him / her after the lesson?

Agenda The nature of communication

The problems with ‘speaking’ lessons

Structuring a speaking lesson:

- Topics

- Language

- Resources

The connection with 21st Century Skills

Language Practice vs. Communication

• Outcome

• Uses a variety of language

• Process-based

• Meaningful

• Open ended

• Correct answers

• Practices specific language

• Product-based

• Manipulative

• Predictable

What does communication involve?

1. A topic

2. A purpose

3. Paralinguistics

4. Listening

5. Responding

6. Discourse Skills

1. Lexis

2. Structure

3. Phonology

Linguistic Communicative

Spoken Discourse Sub-skills

• Back-channelling

• Repair

• Hesitation devices

• Hedging language

• Showing interest

• Holding the floor

• Interrupting

• Agreeing / Disagreeing

• Carrying on…

Speaking Lessons – The soft option?

1. How long does it take to prepare?

2. How easy is it to prepare?

3. Do students participate?

4. How do you think of topics?

5. How do you structure these classes?

6. What is the learning outcome?

Structuring Communication 1. Topics

Structuring Communication

Creativity Invent a Machine

1. Topics

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Commonality Talk about routines S

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Negotiation Plan a journey S

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Share Opinions Conduct a survey S

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Recommending Describe a place S

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Personalisation

Communicative Outcome

Structuring Communication 2. Content

Structuring Communication

Recommending Describe a place

2. Content

Where’s a great place to visit in Switzerland that tourists rarely

see?

Content Ideas

Language Input

Preparation Time

What do you think of the ideas in the video for spending time in

Hong Kong?

Speak Out 2nd Edition

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A balanced syllabus: - Skills - Systems

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Step-by-Step From Reception to Production From Closed to Open

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Structuring Communication 3. Language

Recommending Describe a place

Content Ideas

Language Input

Preparation Time

Structuring Communication 3. Language

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Step-by-Step Language Input – Useful Phrases

Scaffolding

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Scaffolding

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Step-by-Step Language Input – Useful Phrases

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary

• Information sharing in groups and

pairs

• Peer involvement and support

• Project work: Applying imagination to create communicative results

• Applying strategies to learning and using language to fulfil needs

The 4 Cs of 21st Century Learning

A Communicative Classroom…

Communication and Collaboration

Creativity

Critical Thinking

Makes learning more engaging, effective – and

fun

Reflects real world

behaviour

Prepares students for future academic, work and

social needs

21st Century skills are

transferrable to disciplines other

than English

I’m an English Teacher.

Why 21st Century Skills?

Structuring Communication 3. Discourse

Spoken Discourse Sub-skills

• Back-channelling

• Repair

• Hesitation devices

• Hedging language

• Showing interest

• Holding the floor

• Interrupting

• Agreeing / Disagreeing

• Carrying on…

Old coursebooks don’t always reflect what people

really say

More difficult than teaching grammar:

different cultures have different conventions

(eg degrees of directness)

Gives students pieces of REAL

English

Focus on REAL communicative

outcomes

Teaching features of Discourse

Good things and bad things…

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Distinguishing

Noticing

Practice SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate

Preparation

Production

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate

Exposure to REAL English

How many accents?

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary

Exposure to REAL English

How many accents?

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Elementary

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Putting it all together

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

What makes you happy?

Rank the list below 1= most important 11= least important

With a partner, see how much you have in common. Justify your choices.

SpeakOut 2nd Edition Upper-Intermediate

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MEAURING COMMUNICATION

Can identify very common food and drink

on a menu

A1

Can understand standard speech

on familiar matters, with

some repetition or reformulation

A2

Can collate information from several written

sources and summarise the

ideas orally

B1

Can ask and answer

questions about what they do at

work and in their free

time

A2

The CEFR… • Some of the

bands are VERY wide.

• Exactly WHERE in the B1 band am I?

Introducing the Global

Scale of English

The Global

Scale of

English is a

global,

granular scale

for measuring

proficiency in

English.

A1 26

A2 38

B1 56

A2 35

Can identify common food and drink on a menu Can understand standard speech on familiar matters, with some repetition or reformulation Can collate information from several written sources and summarise the ideas orally Can ask and answer questions about what they do at work and in their free time

The syllabuses

• Hundreds more ‘can do’

statements to teach with

compared to CEFR.

• ‘Can do’ statements

rated by thousands of

teachers worldwide.

• Syllabus underpins

pedagogy of course

material INCLUDING

SPEAKOUT.

• A motivational tool as

learners see movement /

progress more clearly

And Finally…

Communication Collaboration

Critical Thinking Creativity:

21st Century Skills in

Action…

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