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March 2012 Theoretical Foundations of ESL teaching / learning - LET 132 Professor Reinildes Dias, Ph.D. Meet me at Meet me at : : www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes
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Set of slides for Letras undergraduates about the teaching of English.
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March 2012
Theoretical Foundations of ESL
teaching / learning - LET 132
Professor Reinildes Dias, Ph.D.
Meet me atMeet me at: :
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildesMeet me atMeet me at: :
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes
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
Meet me atMeet me at: :
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildesMeet me atMeet me at: :
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes
www.letras.ufmg.br/profs/reinildes
Portal for the English Teacher
http://tinyurl.com/portalreinildes
