British Council, Terazije 8/II
2 March 2012, 18.00 - 19.30
Faculty of Pedagogy, Kraljice Natalije 43
3 March 2012, 12.00 - 16.00
British Council
Terazije 8/II, Belgrade
2 March 2012, 18.00 - 19.30
Higher-order thinking skills
It is important for ESL materials to include tasks based on both lower- and higher-order thinking skills. This session provided participants with opportunities to view, experience and discuss a selection of language-learning tasks based on critical, divergent and convergent thinking skills, which aim to enhance learning and motivation.
Faculty of Pedagogy
Kraljice Natalije 43, Belgrade
3 March 2012, 12.00 - 16.00
Accuracy and correcting mistakes
How important is for teachers to insist on accuracy as well as fluency in teaching English as a foreign language? If we accept that accuracy is important, then our teaching procedures should be such as to encourage accurate production of language as regards pronunciation, spelling and grammar, while encouraging also the use of English for communication. And if, in spite of our best endeavours, our students still make mistakes – we shall want to provide corrective feedback.
In this lecture-workshop we looked at the design of activities that combine the teaching of accuracy with the teaching of fluency, and tried to define which are more – and less! - effective correction strategies.
Teaching large mixed-level classes (workshop)
What is a large class? What is a heterogeneous ('mixed level') class? What are the problems we encounter when we have to teach classes that are both large and heterogeneous? This presentation suggested a series of practical teaching principles, illustrated by actual procedures that involve very little (or no) extra preparation, and that can make the teaching of such classes easier and more effective.
Timetable
12.00 – 12.30 Registration
About the presenter
Penny Ur was educated at the universities of Oxford (MA), Cambridge (PGCE) and Reading (MATEFL). She emigrated to Israel in 1967, where she still lives today. She is married with four children and five grandchildren. Penny Ur has thirty years' experience as an English teacher in primary and secondary schools in Israel. She has recently retired from the headship of the M.Ed program in foreign-language teaching at Oranim Academic College of Education, but continues to teach M.A. courses at Oranim and Haifa University.
She is interested in all aspects of language-teaching methodology, but in particular issues of fluency and accuracy in language teaching, language-learning activity design and the implications for teachers of the development of English as a lingua franca. She has published a number of articles, and was for ten years the editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. Her books include Discussions that Work (1981), Five Minute Activities (co-authored with Andrew Wright) (1992), A Course in Language Teaching (1996), and Grammar Practice Activities (2nd Edition) (2009), all published by Cambridge University Press.
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