Level 5 Diploma for Teaching and Learning ESOL/English
John Keenan [email protected]
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 [email protected] Kadi-Hanifi – ESOL leader [email protected] Claire Rowlands– Course Administrator [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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 ([email protected]) in Registry and Claire Rowlands ([email protected]), 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