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Orientation Day IUFMs/CES Don Bosco St. Patricks
College March 2006
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Aims for the teaching of modern languages in
primary school
- To foster a positive attitude towards language
learning and to promote self-confidence,
self-esteem and enjoyment in learning a language - To develop communicative competence, enabling the
child to use the language in a variety of
contexts - To develop an awareness of the target language
and its relationship with other languages - To develop the childs awareness, appreciation
and respect for other cultures particularly those
associated with the target language - NCCA Teacher Guidelines
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Objectives for the teaching of modern languages
in primary school
- The child should be enabled to
- Experience, enjoy, experiment and explore
language - Develop all language skills
- Develop an appreciation of how languages work
- Enhance his/hers language learning skills
- Appreciate and respect identity and cultural
diversity
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Principles for a language programme
- The programme should be child-centred
- The topics covered should be relevant to the
child - The target language should be the preferred means
of communication in the classroom
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Principles for a language programme
- The programme should encompass all styles of
learning - The programme should have an integrated approach
- The programme should be carefully planned
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Overview of the curriculum
- 3 Strands
- Communicative competence
- Language awareness
- Cultural awareness
- Strand Units
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
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The phases of communication
- motivation through setting the
scene - Pre-communicative phase input of vocabulary
- practice
- role-playing
- Communicative phase communicative
exercises - social interaction
- analysing
- Post-Communicative phase identifying needs
- reinforcing language
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Approaches and methodologies
- Use of the target language
- incidental classroom language, language for
carrying out activities, appropriate language
conventions - Developing listening skills listening for gist,
meaning, sounds, enjoyment
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Approaches and methodologies
- Spoken language talk, role-plays, simulation,
games, storytelling, poetry, rhyme and song - Developing reading skills reading for pleasure
and information, label classroom items,
linguistically rich environment - Developing writing skills practice, drafting
and redrafting, use of ICT, pen-pal projects
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Planning for modern languages
- Programme planning content, functions, topics,
diversification, cross-curricular integration - Classroom organisation equipment, seating,
language area, computers, resources - Multi-class groups
- Special needs pupils
- Keeping records
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References
- Modern Languages in Primary Schools Teacher
guidelines - Pilot Project on Modern Languages in the Primary
School Draft Curriculum Guidelines - MLPSI Handbook
- Language Links
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