Event

(1) Teaching the Strategies of Speaking; (2) Teaching Listening to Low-level Learners

Sunday, January 17th, 2010, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr

(1) Teaching the Strategies of Speaking: helping students with fluency, involvement, and clarification strategies
All of us use strategies when we speak. We use strategies to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing. We use strategies to show interest, to maintain and develop conversations. We use strategies that help with fluency. Learners of English in particular use strategies to compensate for their lack of language. Helping students be aware of and learn to apply different communication strategies is both motivating and a knowledge they can put to immediate use.

(2) Teaching Listening to Low-level Learners
eaching listening effectively means teaching both phonology and knowledge of discourse. A working knowledge of the phonology of natural connected speech, elisions and liaisons, weak forms and reductions helps students with their 'bottom-up' decoding skills. Developing student knowledge of discourse, particularly of scripts (those discourses in English that tend to follow a set pattern) helps them with their 'top-down' predictive skills.

Organization: Hamamatsu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Hamamatsu JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000 yen

Venue: Zaza City Palette, 5th Floor

Location: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Contact Hamamatsu JALT

Dan Frost

Work phone: 053-460-7956
Mobile phone: 090-9891-4844