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LANGUAGE AWARENESSLANGUAGE AWARENESS
Answer the questionsAnswer the questions
What is awareness? What is language awareness? How do you acquire awareness?
Interest in current approaches Interest in current approaches
Learner independence, learner autonomy, learning strategies, self-directed learning, selfaccess, individualization
Explicit learner-centred approaches Cognitive sciences Studies in individual differences “Good language learner” research Humanistic approaches “Study skills” tradition Social changes and changes in the labour
market.
http://www.learningpaths.org/papers/paperawareness.htm
AWARENESSAWARENESS
State or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something. In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human's or an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event.
Language AwarenessLanguage Awareness
explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use.
good knowledge about language, a conscious understanding of how languages work, of how people learn them and use them.
Language awarenessLanguage awareness
(Cognitivist learning theory) As a prerequisite for the restructuring of
the learner’s mental representation of the language, some degree of conscious awareness is necessary
Awereness-raising activitiesAwereness-raising activities
Explicit focus on the rules of the system Help learners uncover gaps in their
knowledge
Attention: Pay attention, alert, interested, involved and
curious- features of target skill
Noticing: Conscious registering of the occurrence of some
event. When do you notice things of language?
- make connections
- familiarity
- absence of something
- noticing the gap
Understanding: no awareness without understanding,
recognition of general rules, principles or patterns
THE CELLPHONE AGETHE CELLPHONE AGE Do you have a cellphone? Yes, No/Why? What functions does your cellphone
provide?
Match the word with the correct Match the word with the correct meaning.meaning.
a. indispensable __large inconvenient sizeb. the preserve of __be as good asc. Bulky __not noticingd. rival __suitable only fore. bemoan __very importantf. oblivious __complain about
Why did you choose your particular cell
phone? Does it have any functions that you
never use?
How do you think cellular phones will change
in the coming years?
Do you think you have good ‘cell phone
manners’? Can you give any examples?
In what places is cell phone usage banned? Do
you agree with this?
Choose one of the following populations and design a cellphone for them
ConsiderConsider
Features Uses Restrictions Price Shape Population Advantages
NOW…NOW…
Choose a topic and plan a set of activities to teach a specialized language
Raising awareness activitiesRaising awareness activities Activate background knowledge: brainstorm
vocabulary (tyres, gears, brakes, saddles, frame)
Check gist: asking general questions
Check register: establish register variables
(tenor), degree of formality
Check details: provide a grid to fill, multiple
choice questions, repeat recording as many times
as necessary
Listen and read: hand out the transcript
Resolve doubts: residual doubts about the
topic and the reading
Focus on language features: identifying,
counting, classifying, matching, connecting,
comparing and contrasting