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Core Elements in Language Learning
• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills
Listening 45%
Speaking 30%
Reading 16%
Writing 9%
Core communication skills
Listening
What makes listening difficult?
1. Sentence stress, rhythm and speed
2. Weak forms and contractions
3. Catenation
4. Discriminating between similar forms
5. Ellipsis
6. Recognising and interpreting intonation
7. Recognising redundancy
snotinuff
In other words…
Core communication skills
Speaking
The Five Principles1. Little and often
2. Reminiscence effect
3. Personalisation
4. Accuracy and fluency
5. Contiguity of error and correction
Reading Elementary Level
Reading - text types
• addresses• restaurant ads• emails• letters from friends• accommodation
adverts• simple formal letters
• newspaper articles• tourist brochures• entertainment
adverts • airport signs• job adverts • postcards
Writing – task types
• hotel registration forms
• a website profile• emails• text messages• stories
• letters to friends• descriptions of
places • simple formal letters• postcards
Writing Elementary Level
Core Elements in Language Learning
• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills
Core Language
Vocabulary
Top 1000 words Top 2000 words Neither
person complain modern
expensive drink ear
cost relax just
bathroom quietly became
business alone impressed
Top 1000 words Top 2000 words Neither
person (60)
just (66)
became (134)
cost (727)
modern (973)
drink (1472)
complain (1544)
business (1562)
expensive (1570)
alone (1720)
quietly (3157)
relax (3674)
ear (3845)
bathroom (4522)
impressed (6266)
Figures from the Cambridge International Corpus
84.3
82.3
75.6
73.5
% of conversation
% words in fiction
% words in newspapers
% words in academic texts
Learning Vocabulary in Another Language – I.S.P Nation (2001)
Top 1000 words account for:
VocabularyLexical input in every lesson:• Lexical fields (bus, car, train, etc.)• Collocations (go swimming, play tennis,etc.)• Sentence stems (Would you like …?etc.)• Fixed and semi-fixed phrases (See you soon,
etc.)• Consolidation through interactive language
summaries• Vocabulary Plus worksheets - extra vocabulary
Core Language
Grammar
Core Language
Real World
Core Language
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
• Integrated for all new grammar, all Real World language
• Sentence stress, weak forms, intonation, linking, etc.
Core Elements in Language Learning
• Core communication skills• Core language• Core learning skills
Reviewing
• Review sections at the beginning of every lesson and at the end of each unit
• Photocopiable Progress Tests for each unit
Core Learning Skills
Reviewing 1
Core Learning Skills
Reviewing 2
Core Learning Skills
Reflection
Reflection
Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the Progress
Portfolios allow students to monitor their own language development
Structure12 Units (4 lessons each)
• A – B – C - D • Course Review pg 101• Songs pg 102• Pair and Group Work pg104• Language Summary pg 122• Recording Scripts pg 148• CD ROM
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