Tag: English

The Teaching of Listening in an International Classroom

Dear fellow students.


I became interested in the teaching of listening after reading about it in P. Gibbons book Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning. For my research I designed a lesson course focusing on one-way listening. I created activities to tune the students’ listening skills and i wanted the students to realize the importance of being able to listen for information. 

I did my research in a 1st grade at an international school in Shanghai, China. Since the students here are from all over the world the use of message abundancy became an important element to ensure that my teaching could be a success. 


This was my research question:

How can I plan and implement a teaching sequence focusing on teaching listening, taking into account a multicultural classroom?   

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Best Regards 

Carina Moth 

On Farm animals told by First Graders

Dear fellow students!

Writing this profession essay, I found so much inspiration in all the great material one can find here.

My research question was greatly influenced by Pauline Gibbons and her task based teaching approach. I found it very interesting to combine TBLT and Communicative Language Teaching. This approach allowed me to scaffold the students in many different ways and present the topic “Farm Animals” in a variety of different ways, which in turn helped me potentially reach more students.

My research question was:
“How can I scaffold communicative tasks in a 1st grade and evaluate their language development?”

I focused mainly on teaching the students to recognize the different animals through song and visual tasks.

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I hope you enjoy reading my essay and find something that can inspire you on your further journey.

Sincerely

Judith Gillibrand