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ALICE SPRINGSJune / July 2003
ESL STRATEGIES: EARLY YEARSESL STRATEGIES: EARLY YEARSScales 1 – 6 (1 – 4)Scales 1 – 6 (1 – 4)
ANANGU EDUCATION CONFERENCE
equal status ……………….…………….. great difference in status
familiar …….………………………………...……………..very distant
great deal of emotional expression….little emotional expression
Tenor Continuum
Model of Language
Language
Situational ContextSituational Context
Sociocultural Context Sociocultural Context
Genre Genre
Field
Tenor
ModeModeField
Tenor
Text in Context
Mode
Tenor
Situational Context
Field
Sociocultural ContextGenre
LanguageText in Context
•broader strand •more specific strand
•resources in the English language
•foregrounding•coherence•voice and tense•print conventions
•textual element•spoken to written •multimodal texts
Mode
•modality•appraisal •speech functions •idioms •non-verbal elements
•interpersonal element•formality to familiarity
Tenor
•verbs •noun groups•nominalisations •circumstances•topic specific vocabulary
•informational element•everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
•range of genres•purposes•structure
language choices -•structure texts •build cohesion •expand sentences
•range of genres•specific purposes•structure •cohesion
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
range of genrespurposesstructure
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•the range of genres•purposes •structure
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
language choices -•structure texts •expand sentences•build cohesion
language choices -structure texts build cohesion expand sentences
Genre: Scale 2•participates in basic spoken exchanges depending on memorising segments•responds in basic spoken exchanges involving two or three turns•uses one or two examples of pronoun reference
S: Good morning, good morning everyone.
All: Good morning everyone
S: My mum buy for me a gun
T: A gun? What do you do with that?
S: and Barbie and car
T: Whoo! Do you enjoy playing with those?
S: nods (goes and sits down)
Genre: Scale 3•constructs elementary examples of basic genres by speaking and writing with a high degree of scaffolding•demonstrates an understanding of the structure of several basic genres•uses basic pronouns: I
Genre: Scale 4•organises the meanings in brief written texts in a logical order•writes several pieces of information about a living thing•topic words at the front of sentences in a report•begins to expand information using linking conjunctions: and, but•uses a limited range of cohesive resources: possessive pronouns, third person pronouns, demonstrative pronouns
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Genre: Structure – Logical order
3. Write sentencesI went to church. I went camping. I went to school.
1………church 2………camping 3………school
1. List events in order
4. Draw pictures of activities, in order, and write sentences1. ……...……… 2. ……….. 3. …………….
2. Order
I went to school. I went camping. I went to church.
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Genre: Structure – Action Words - Procedure
Strategies Scales 1- 4
7. Complete a cloze of the instructions.
2. Follow spoken instructions and order pictures of actions. Label each picture with an action verb: stir, pour, boil…
3. Listen again to the spoken instructions and complete the table
action how longwhat4. Write instructions from the table.
6. Cut and jumble the sentences and give to another student to order.
5. Colour the action words and notice their position. Compare with a recount.
1. Play bingo with actions, ingredients and utensils for cooking.
9. Observe, discuss and write new instructions. 8. List new ingredients.
Genre: Structure – Topic words - Report
Strategies Scales 1- 4
2. Talk about specific and general nouns
3. Compare sentences A cat has fur. Cats have fur. My cat has fur.
4. Compare texts with the different sentences.
6. Be specific about the form of verb needed for a report.
5. Colour the form of noun in reports
1. List singular and plural forms of words
Genre: Cohesion – Reference Items
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Once upon a time there lived a lady.Her name was Sadie. She lived in a house. It was a pretty one
2. Tracking participants in a short text
3. ClozeOnce upon a time there lived a man.………. name was Bob.…….. lived in a caravan.…….. was new. 4. Compare the pattern of reference items betweena recount and a procedure.
1. Understanding of reference itemsWhere is her book? Put it there.
5.Colour use of reference items in own texts.
1. Shopping basket: Bob went to the store. Bob bought bread and apples. Bob went to the store. Bob bought bread, apples and ….. but he didn’t buy chips.
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Genre: Expansion - Linking conjunctions - and, but
Bob bought ……and …but he didn’t buy ………..bought
didn’t buy
2. Cloze with pictures
3. True or FalseHe went to the store but he didn’t buy bread. He went to the store but he didn’t buy chips.He went to the store. He bought bread and chips.
4. True stories Write true stories about Bob.
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
language choices -•structure texts •expand sentences•build cohesion
•informational element•everyday to highly technical
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•informational element•everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•verbs •noun groups•nominalisations•circumstances•topic specific vocabulary
Field: Scale 2•uses vocabulary that is mainly commonsense but chooses isolated concrete technical vocabulary: Barbie•understands a small range of vocabulary expressing immediate interests:•common noun groups•common actions
S: Good morning, good morning everyone.All: Good morning everyoneS: My mum buy for me a gunT: A gun? What do you do with that?S: and Barbie and carT: Whoo! Do you enjoy playing with those?S: nods (goes and sits down)
Field: Scale 3•uses very basic phrases of location•expands vocabulary by describing according to size
Well the story was about as a little fish and one... boy to go to school and he walk in the jungle and he pass in the big tree and he sit, he, he, he...sit on the thing on the ground and he look to the water and he see some fish and when he come to school he.. he make some boat and when he come into the jungle too, he put some fish on the boat and it the boat and the little boy the boat on the water
Field: Scale 3•uses vocabulary that is mainly commonsense but chooses some concrete technical vocabulary: orange juice, church•expands vocabulary using numbers, describers, classifiers: orange juice
Field: Scale 4•uses vocabulary that is commonsense but begins to use some technical vocabulary: ball chasy, watermelon•uses very basic phrases expressing circumstances: On Sunday, outside, at night-time
Field: Scale 4•uses very basic circumstances•expands vocabulary using numbers, describers, classifiers•uses technical vocabulary for educational fields such as science
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Field: Noun groups1. Word groups: build groups following the patterna cara brown carone old brown car one old brown Holden car2. Deconstruct the order and build groups of wordsnumber opinion fact classifier key concept3. Multiple choice from a story or pictureIs she wearing a big yellow hat or a small blue hat?
5. Draw a 3 legged wooden stool with a fur top. 6. Experiment with the effect of positive and negative describers: sweet smelling /smelly
4. Describing peopleA student with one set of pictures describes them to another student with another set, to put them in the same order.
Field: Circumstances - location1. Follow instructions
Draw a book near the vase.Draw a ball under the table.Draw a man behind the flower.
3. Describe a picture.
next to in behindThe car is …… the garage.The fence is ……. the tree.The tree is …….. the house.
Strategies Scales 1- 4
2. Answering questionsIs the vase on the table?Is the vase under the table?Is the vase next to the table?
Field: Circumstances - location
Strategies Scales 1- 4
1. QuestionsWhere is the vase?Where is the ball?Where is the clock?Where are the flowers?
2. Noughts and crosses
in
behindnext to
in frontnear
on
betweenunder over
Field: verbs
Strategies Scales 1- 4
1. Colour the verbs in sentences.2. Illustrate the verbs. 3. Group the verbs. You may get thinking,
doing, saying, being verbs. 4. Find examples of verbs that have more than
one meaning eg I see 5. Compare the types of verbs in recounts,
reports and procedures. 6. Cloze exercise for verbs.
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
•interpersonal element•familiar to formal
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•deal with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•interpersonal element•formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
•non-verbal elements•speech functions•modality•attitudinal lexis•idioms
•modality•appraisal •speech functions •idioms •non-verbal elements
Tenor: Scale 2•responds in socially appropriate ways•chooses common formulaic expressions •pronounces most words comprehensively
S: Good morning, good morning everyone.
All: Good morning everyone
S: My mum buy for me a gun
T: A gun? What do you do with that?
S: and Barbie and car
T: Whoo! Do you enjoy playing with those?
S: nods (goes and sits down)
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Tenor: feeling and attitude1. Clozelike don’t like I ………….. ice cream. I ………… winter. 2. Find someone whoFind someone who likes winter.Find someone who doesn’t like icecream.3. RehearseDo you like….? Yes I do. No I don’t
4. Report backWho likes ice cream? Sue likes icecream. Who likes winter? Dan and Bill like winter.
5. Experiment with intonation and the use of very, so, much.
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Speech functions1. Understanding of patterns of statements,
questions, offersDo you have a pen? Do you have a book?Do you have lunch?Can I help you? Can I write for you? Can I visit you?Can I have your book? Can I have my book?Can I have your attention?Give me your book. Give me my book. Give me your attention.
2. Compare Can I help you? Can I have your book?Give me your book. Note their level of politeness. Discuss their appropriateness.
•the language choices -organise texts•focus foregrounding
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
•the ‘how’ •its textual elements•range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
•textual element•spoken to written •multimodal
• textual element•deals with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts
Mode
•the language choices •who questions or commands•how degrees of certainty expressed.
•the ‘who’ •interpersonal elements•deal with formality, familiarity and attitude
Tenor
•word groups and phrases•the verbs •participants •circumstances
•the ‘what’, or content•its informational elements•range from everyday to technical vocabulary
Situational Context
Field
•language choices -•structure texts •cohesive
•the range of genres•specific purposes•structure and cohesion
Sociocultural Context
Genre
LanguageText in Context
• foregrounding• voice and tense• print conventions•foregrounding•voice and tense•print conventions
Mode: Scale 3•repetitive sentence beginnings: I•limited control of primary tenses: simple present used instead of simple past•print conventions: spells with some accuracy
Mode: Scale 4•some control of primary tenses for most common regular verbs but a strictly limited control of secondary tenses•experiments with punctuation: fullstops and capitals used
Mode: Scale 4•repetitive sentence beginnings•some control of primary tenses•spells most common words and others on own pronunciation•experiments with punctuation
Strategies Scales 1- 4
Mode: Foregrounding
1.Identify foregrounded elements in a recount and a procedure
My brother took me in his car. We went to my uncle’s house. On Saturday we went home.
Open the box. Lift the paper. Fold the paper.
2. Compare foregroundingRecount: My brother PersonWe PersonOn Saturday Time
Procedure: Open ActionLift ActionFold Action
3. Compiletime wordsaction words
Mode: Tense
1. Lists of verbs go went sit sat play played
have had watch watched2. Model Everyday I go to school.
Yesterday I played football. 3. Question and answer What do you do everyday? I go to school.
What did you do yesterday? I played football.
Strategies Scales 1- 4
What did the boy do yesterday? He sat …………………….. He…………… a game on the computer.
4. Picture cloze
Mode: Tense
Strategies Scales 1- 4
5.ClozeYesterday David …………. (drive) a car. He ………….. (drive) a car everyday. 6. PatternI …………… now. I …………… everyday. I ……………. yesterday.I …………….. tomorrow. 7. Time What are they doing now?What were they doing an hour ago?What will they do soon? What were they doing yesterday?
now
are …….ing will ……….
futurepast
…..edchange wordwere …ing
past perfect
Comparing texts
Cities are very busy. Some people go to work in offices and some people go shopping and some people go to look at the old and new buildings.
Alice Springs is a beautiful city. There are many shops. The mountains are around the city.
I like Alice Springs. I like visiting my grandmother there.
Yesterday I went to visit my grandmother in Alice Springs.
Strategies Scales 1- 4
A
B
C
D
report about cities
descriptionabout Alice Springs
personal response
recount about yesterday
technical vocabsimple present
noun groupscircumstances
evaluative languagepronouns
timepast tensepronouns