Delivering skills

South Asian Languages

Communicative Premise

Possibility of an open response

Negotiation of meaning

Lesson Plan—Template Topic Goals

Linguistic Communicative tasks Learning strategies

Structure Preparation Presentation Evaluation

Examplar: Greetings

Pre-activity: Background Video presentation Activity: Making observations Post-activity: Application

Pre-activity

Background activation

Situating the context

Activity Making observations

Kinds of information conveyed Linguistic realizations Role relations Kinship terms Forms of address

Activity contd.

Question: Are heritage/non-heritage speakers going to observe all the information there? Pair-work, group discussion

If not, then how can we make them observe the various fictive kinship terms, forms of address, and the linguistic expression of greetings?

Post-activity

Applying it to our own teaching/learning experience

Personal narratives Intercultural comparisons

Skills activity Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Grammar

Skills Activity—Reading Stages

Pre-reading

Identify main elements

Identify details

Use of text meaning Preview text, establish a

purpose, predict meaning

Identify main ideas, characters, settings, and events

Read intensively and connect main concepts to details

Reading —2 Organize/revise main

ideas/details

React to text/explore intertextuality

Revise main ideas and supporting details

Students give opinions and reactions to text and relate other texts to it

Grammar: PACE Focus on form

P: presentation of meaningful language

A: attention

C: co-construct grammatical explanation

E: extension activity

Writing—Project orientedhttp://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/hindi/resources/res_uiuc.html

Learner-focused, free options

Thematic Awareness of socio-cultural, historical, and

political awareness

Incremental Guided, two steps

Grammaticality Coherence/Cohesion

Conclusions Focus on DISCOVERING culture Language is the instrument/tool/medium

of that DISCOVERY Learner is ACTIVE Teacher’s role: Keeping learner ACTIVE