© Crown copyright 200900045-2009CDO-EN Slide 1 CPDM 5: Bridging talk and text: formal talk Ensuring...

© Crown copyright 200900045-2009CDO-EN Slide 1

CPDM 5:Bridging talk and text: formal talk

Ensuring the attainment of more advanced learners of English as an additional language (EAL)


Aims

• To consider the similarities between formal talk and written text

• To consider how formal talk supports the development of academic writing

• To explore a range of learning activities and teaching techniques that bridge talk and text


A continuum of talk

Informal Formal

Playground talk

Speaking to the boss

Reading the news

Presenting feedback to

peersGiving a lecture


The mode continuum

Text 1 Spoken-like textSituation-embeddedReference words (it, they, etc.)

Text 2 Spoken-like textSituation-embeddedSubject-specific words

Text 3 Written-like textLess situation-embedded

Text 4 Written-like textNot situation-embeddedNominalisation


What affects the way we speak and write?

• Audience

• Prior knowledge

• Writer’s purpose

• Text type

• Topic context/reader’s purpose • Cultural context


A teaching and learning sequence

Exploratory talk

Report back to class

Write recount text

Active reading

Speaking as an expert (formal)

Analytical or discursive

text


Modelling formal talk: the continuum debate

Watch the video sequence of a Year 9 history lesson

• When you are asked to do so, use resource 1 to note down the kind of language that the teachers are modelling

• Each of you will be asked to concentrate on two sections of the resource


Formal talk activities

In pairs or threes, you will be trying out one of these three approaches:

• Dictogloss• Socratic talk• ‘Fattening-up’ questions.

Record your reflections on resource 5


Plenary and next stepsOn resource 5 note down at least five opportunities for you to use the approaches in your teaching over the next term/year. Ensure that you include at least two approaches out of:

• Dictogloss• Socratic talk• Continuum debate• ‘Fattening up’ questions• Modelling• Using success criteria for formal language.

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