It is obvious that language teaching and learning is becoming a hot issue in the education systems of different countries. Now I am being convinced that it is much more influential than I imagined. I have one interesting reason to come to this conclusion. I am appreciating the values of language teaching ICT tools produced more than any time now in my study and reading at Warwick. This informs me the value that language teaching and learning is being given.
In this post, I would like to introduce ‘language guide .Org ’ website. The first things that come to my mind are my children. My first child is already in kindergarten. She is struggling to identify letters. It always surprises me that she can easily identify a capital letter and a small letter if it is associated with the picture that he studied with at school. Therefore, I decided to help her study using practice books that have images and letters. Having come across with language. Org English, one more thing comes to my mind. This can help my child more than I can imagine synchronising all written, pictures and spoken forms.
What is Language guide.org?
Language guide.org is a website that can help learners to improve their English language vocabulary skills. It is designed in a very simple way so that it can help learners acquire the basic skills. One can use the link http://www.languageguide.org/ to find the page of the website.
Features
The most essential feature of language guide.org is that it has vocabulary in written, pictures and spoken forms synchronised. Such multimodal presentation helps learners to acquire what they have gone through faster.
How can teachers use?
Language Guide. Org is an ideal source of lesson for early grade language education. Parents can also use it at home to help their children. It is really a fun for children to learn from the website.
The following lesson is designed for children of age seven based on the input form language guide.org. I will use the PPP model of lesson production. This is just to demonstrate what we can do with the website. Therefore, the lesson plan may not be complete or copy of what we often do for our classes
Lesson Plan
Objective
At the end of this lesson the students will be able to
1. Identify body parts above our neck.
2. Pronounce the words properly
3. Write the words in correct spelling
Introduction
In this part students are asked to identify their body parts especially the ones above their neck. Then they are asked to identify the body parts of a friend next to them.
N.B. Teacher need to be very careful on facilitating the second exercises if there is a students with some kind of disability.
Presentation
We can present the body parts above the neck in pictures. I suggest the use of students’ L1 at this stage
Head chicks
Hair chin
Ears forehead
Nose nostrils
Mouth teeth
Eyes eyebrow
Teacher can use the pictures widely at this level to help students associate the words with the pictures
Practice
We can use the resources form languageguide.org at this specific point. If the teachers are not native speaker of the language, the resource from Language Guide.org has significant contribution. The following link for Language Guide.org can help learners to practice the body parts in this lesson. Teachers can use both the American and British version to help students practice based on their judgement.
Teachers can also decide on the procedure and type of practices based on their real context. However, practice sessions need to be involving and accuracy focused.
Production
At this stage teachers can make two choices. The first choice could be to get back to their original pictures and ask students to elicit each part. The second part could be to keep on using the resources on Languagegide.org.
However, teachers need to be very considerate to give enough amount of time at this stage. They also need to think about the variety of ways to make the production interesting and engaging.
Please give it a try and see what you can improve
Good luck.
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