TSLB3033-PRINCIPLESNAND PRACTICE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

TOPIC 1: OVERVIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

DATE OF PRESENTATION: 8/1/2016

Group members: Aghilah Chandrasekaran

: Chan Li Xuan
: Sarveena Murugiah

Question 1
Discuss the various roles of a language
teacher. Choose 3 roles to present on.

Role 1: Controller
Teacher-fronted classroom
Eg: Giving explanation, lecturing, making
announcement

Disadvantage: denies students access their

own experiential learning
Cuts down students opportunity to speak
Over reliance on transmission teaching

Role 2: Participant
Taking part in students activities
Liven things up rom within

Disadvantage:
Teacher might easily dominate the
proceedings.
Frequently perceived as the authority

Role 3: Resource
Provide guide for students/ direct them to
solve problems on their own
Provide appropriate input
-to facilitate, advise, assist and offer
direction
*Teacher should be helpful and available but
spoon feeding should be avoided

Question 2:

Establish some learner roles for your future

English classes and elaborate them.

Learner roles:
a. Active learner
b. Clients and receptacles
c. Democratic explorers

a.

Active learners

.engage

in two way
communication.
.Providing range of
activities including
dialogue and
interactions with peers
and teachers, practical
investigations,
performances, oral
presentations and
discussions by
integrating students
multiple intelligences .

b. Clients and
receptacles
.Producer

of
knowledge
.Students enter the
classes specifically for
knowledge. Hence,
they should be filled
with knowledge within
their capacities.
.Activities such as flip
classroom,
background readings,
online
task/information.

c.

Democratic explorers

.A

group of learners
collaboratively work together
to
.demonstrate their knowledge
and understanding, skills,
attributes and capabilities
through a wide range of
evidence including specific
assessment tasks, activities
and fun games.
.Collaboratively shape and
review their learning by
reflection, setting learning
goals and next steps
including through personal
learning planning.
.review their own learning
through self assessment.

Question 3
Choose 3 factors that your group thinks
are most important in influencing
learning in your learners. Give reasons.

Personality
factor

Factors
that
influencing
learning in
learners

Motivation
factor

Learning
styles

1. Motivation factor
Motivation is important in order to succeed.
Without motivation we might fail in trying to
make the efforts.
It pushes learners to do things in order to
achieve something.
Motivation comes from both inside
(intrinsic) and outside (extrinsic)

Intrinsic motivation encourages learners to

make sense of and apply what they are
studying and will increase the odds that
they will continue to read and learn.
Learners who are extrinsically motivated
may want the good grades, money, or
recognition that particular activities and
accomplishments bring.

Motivation directs behavior toward particular

goals.
Example : if a student is determined to receive
a scholarship, theyll do their best to pursue it.

Motivation affects what learners pay attention

to and how effectively they process it.
For example, motivated learners often make
an effort to truly understand classroom
material, to learn it meaningfully and consider
how they might use it in their own lives.

Personality factor

a.
b.
c.
d.

There is a close connection between a

person's personality type and their learning
style.
Extroversion vs. introversion
Sensing vs. intuition
Thinking vs. feeling
Judging vs. perceiving

Extroverts are usually energized by being

with people and interacting with them, and
can often think best if they can talk over
their ideas with other people.
For example, the student will clear his doubt
by asking questions in the classroom.

Introverts think best by themselves by

processing ideas in their own minds.
Example : the most quiet person in the
classroom, shy to question while have doubt

Learning styles

1.
2.
3.
4.

Different people have different learning

styles.
For example : some will use mind maps,
songs, highlighters, having group studies
and so on.
There are 4 types of learners
Convergers
Conformists
Concrete learners
Communicative learners

Convergers :
Nature solitary, avoid groups, independent
and confident in their own abilities.
They are analytic and tend to be pragmatic.

Conformists :
Tend to be dependent on those in authority
and happy to work in non-communicative
classrooms

Concrete learners :
Enjoy the social aspects of learning and
learn from direct experience.
Ex : actively participating in games and
group works in classroom.

Communicative learners :
Much more interested in social interaction
with other speakers of the language.
Perfectly happy to operate without the
guidance of the teacher.