ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION:

INTEGRATING THE EIGHT ESSENTIAS

• LEARNER AUTONOMY
• THE SOCIAL NATURE OF LEARNING
• INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
• FOCUS ON MEANING
• DIVERSITY
• THINKING SKILLS
• ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT
• TEACHERS AS CO-LEARNERS

1. LEARNER AUTONOMY

• THIS ESSENTIAL GENERALLY MEANS OUR LEARNERS HAVE GREATER CHOICE OVER THEIR OWN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING.

2. The social nature of learning

3. Integrated Curriculum

• THE CONECTION BETWEEN DIFERENT STRANS OF THE CURRICULUM SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED.

4. FOCUS ON MEANING

5. DIVERSITY

6. thinking skills

• this essential mantains that learning a second language should serve as a means of developing higher-order thinking skills.

7. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

• This essential suggests that new forms of assessment are needed to compliment the more traditional modes of assessment, such as multiple chice.

8. THEACHERS AS CO-LEARNERS

REFLECTING ON THE ESSENTIALS

Within a CLT approach to second language education, Richards (2005) suggests that for this approach to succeed, we need to consider ten assumptions :

1- Interaction in meaningful communication

2- Tasks and activities

3- Purposeful, relevant and interesting content

4- Use of more than one language skill

5- Inductive style learning activities

6- Errors are natural

7- Second language learners progress different

8- Learning and communication strategies

9- Creation of learning environment by second language teacher

10- Collaboration and sharing

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