Level 5 Diploma for Teaching and Learning ESOL/English

John Keenan j.keenan@worc.ac.uk

Day 1

• Standard English

• Social factors: ideology, discourse, labelling

Day 2

• The nature of language

• Language and social class/race

• Multilingualism

Day 3

• The future of English

Day 4

• Reflection

• Progression

• Iplp

The blog

• http://level5diploma2013.wordpress.com

Eleven Step Programme

1. CRB

2. NQF Level 3 in English

3. NQF Level 2 in maths

4. Initial Professional Learning Plan

5. Own observations of experienced teacher/tutor/mentor undertaking teaching

6. Reflections

7. Four assessed lessons - at least two levels from: entry, levels 1 and 2

8. Passed module assignments

9. Schemes of work for 75 hours and 10 lesson plans

10. A list of professional development activities undertaken during the programme

11. Confirmation of 75 hours teaching hours in FE/Lifelong Learning Sector

Booklets

Introduction to university procedure

John Keenan–course co-ordinator j.keenan@worc.ac.ukKarima Kadi-Hanifi – ESOL leader k.kadi-hanifi@worc.ac.uk Claire Rowlands– Course Administrator c.rowlands@worc.ac.uk

What does the university offer you?

•Library http://www.thehiveworcester.org•Study skills http://students.worc.ac.uk•Student Union membership - card•Counselling services http://www.worc.ac.uk/counselling/•Dyslexia/disability support http://www.worcester.ac.uk/student-services/disability-and-dyslexia.htm•Careers http://www.worc.ac.uk/careers/•24 hour computer access http://findapc.worc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lab.pl•Financial advice http://www.worc.ac.uk/wfa/

SCONUL

Lissa O’Grady l.ogrady@worc.ac.uk01905 85 5414  

o Serious illness o Serious illness of partner, relative or friend o Bereavement o Excessive employment demands which were substantial and temporary (PT students only)

Evidence for Examples of evidence include: • Medical Certificate (obtained at the time of illness) • Letter from medical practitioner confirming the illness of the student or another person • Letter from student counsellor • Death certificate

Mitigating Circumstances

Form

Intercalation

For a variety of reasons – medical, personal, financial – some students find it necessary to suspend their studies temporarily. This is described at the University as “intercalation”. Anyone contemplating this should seek the advice of their tutors in the first instance; You then need to contact Dionne Boulter (d.boulter@worc.ac.uk) in Registry and Claire Rowlands (c.rowlands@worc.ac.uk), the course administrator .

Failure = retake in summerFail retake = sit module againNon-submission = Board of Study decision

Progression

Why are you here?

Minimum Core Reform

Attempts to Improve Core Skills

1984 - Core Skills Project,YTS, MSC, BTEC, TVEI CPVE

1989 - New Strategy Post-16 Core Skills (DES 1989)

IT, Society and Environment, Industry and Commerce, Numeracy, Communication, Problem-solving, Practical Skills, Working Co-operatively; GNVQs

1996 Dearing Report Key Skills

Communication, Numeracy, ICT, Working with Others etc

1998 Moser Report Skills for Life, 2001

2004 Tomlinson report, Diplomas, Core Skills

2008 Kelly 14-19 White Paper, Functional Skills

Literacy levels

Level % number

Level 2 or above 44 14.1m(Skills for Life national needs and impact survey, DfES, 2003)

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/stats/adultstats.html#England

Entry level 1 or below 3 1.1m

Entry level 2 2 0.6m

Entry level 3 11 3.5m

(All entry level or below) 16 5.2m

Level 1 40 12.6m

Numeracyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4372738/Almost-24-million-adults-with-poor-numeracy-skills-say-MPs.html

http://excellence.qia.org.uk/pdf/TandLEnglishHT281107.pdf

What will this course do?

Social factors learning English/ESOLPsychological factors learning English/ESOL

Teaching and learning methods English/ESOL

change – pedagogy – reflection – support – resources –linguistics

What is your pedagogy for teaching English/ESOL?

What do you love?

About English/ESOL teaching

poetry

Poem for Everyman I will present you

parts of my self

slowly if you are patient and tender.

I will open drawers that mostly stay closed

and bring out places and people and things sounds and smells, loves and frustrations, hopes and sadness,

bits and pieces of three decades of life that have been grabbed off

in chunks and found lying in my hands.

they have eaten their way into my memory,

carved their way into my heart.

altogether- you or I will never see them - they are me.

If you regard them lightly, deny they are important

or worse judge them I will quietly, slowly,

begin to wrap them up, in small pieces of velvet,

like worn silver and gold jewellery, tuck them away

in a small wooden chest of drawers and close.

John Wood

The Blot

What is Miss Maclean’s pedagogy?

What is English?

Greater understanding of what language isGreater understanding of what English isRevision of key linguistic terms

Learning Outcomes

What do you know?

grammar

syntax

morphology semiotics

pragmatics

syntagmphoneme

http://classtools.net/education-games-php/fruit_machine/

Standard English

dialect

accent

received pronunciation

adjective

preposition

noun

verb

What is language?

What would you say language was?

‘‘an artificial system of signs and symbols, with rulesan artificial system of signs and symbols, with rules’’ Chambers cited Chambers cited in Harley p.8in Harley p.8

What is language?

•specialisation - word means the same

•semanticity - signals mean something

•openness - ability to invent

•syntactic rulesAnderson 1985 added

cited in Harley, 2001: .9

What is language?

Hockett 1960

16 properties

Language

form content use

phon/graphology

syntax semantics pragmatics

morphology

What is language?

Structure..................Meaning.................Context

Graphology/Phonology

Phonemes - smallest unit of speech

What is language? Form

.

Graphemes - smallest unit of written language eg alphabet

Morphology

Morphemes - smallest grammatical unit with meaning

Bound and free

What is language? Form

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

The word

– consists of phonemes/graphemes and morphemes

However...

What is language? Form

Syntax

Rules

Each sentence must contain a noun phrase and a verb phrase

Jesus wept

Noun phrase

article

adjective

noun

Verb phrase

verb

adverb

What is language? Form

Semiotics

Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is a system of signs

A sign is the basic element of meaning

What is language? Content

What is language? Content

pipe

What is language? Content

The creator of language is the encoder

The receiver is the decoder

The creator must make sure the code is understood.

What is language? Content

Wednesday everyone lost lamb dried okay nasty error yellow over useable happy appetite very esteemed cheese roll acidic cluck knows everything dangerous timeless heaps each cheese old do eat

What is language? Content

Hats earn lottery lolly orchids

What is language? Content

cot

What is language? Content

Sign

signifier (DENOTATION)

signified (CONNOTATION)

What is language? Content

cot

What is language? Content

Signs are polysemic.

They only make sense when we consider the paradigm (other choices) and syntagm (context in which they appear)

healthy

temptation

Teacher’s pet

Clean teeth

food

What is language? Use

Semantic markers

kicked the ball

went to the ball

ball - sphere, small, used in games, physical object

ball - dance event

Kick and went

Katz and Fodor 1963 in Harley, 2001: 185

What is language? Use

I am going to eat an apple

What is language? Use

What is language? Use

syntagm

I am going to eat an I am going to switch on my

What is language? Use

syntagm

What is language? Use

syntagm

What is language? Use

syntagm

What is language? Use

paradigm

Syntagm = given by a man to his girlfriend

What is language? Use

‘The sign’s meaning doesn’t arise within it, but from the entire system of relationships within which it exists, giving it value’

Thwaites T (1994) Tools for Cultural Studies, London: Macmillan, p34

What is language? Use

Pragmatics

rules of language use - context

it was found that the eel was on the orange

it was found that the eel was on the axle

it was found that the eel was on the fishing rod

it was found that the eel was on the table

What is language? Use

FormContentUse

Structure....meaning...context

Phonetic transcription

‘Language … is not simply a means of communicating messages. It is also very important as a symbol of identity’ Trudgill, 1983: 74 

It is part of, ‘the performance of identity’ Thornborrow, 200: 166 Thomas (1988)

mining community in Wales used different sounds

Congregationalist, Baptist or Methodist (Thornborrow, 2003: 167)

English is:A system of signsAn agreed codeRegionalOrganicCommunicates identity

forster

Standard English