ELF Weekly's Class Ideas
Hiya
Mates,
This
Tuesday I am planning to expose a few Ideas I have about an English
as a Lingua Franca (Henceforth ELF) in the English Classroom. At the
language Institute where I work here in Brazil I have to deal with
content, since the beliefs at this very institute lie upon
communicative approach, in the sense that I have to apply grammar,
vocabulary, oral skills, listening, written production and so on
based on a communicative situation (For further information about the
functionality of the communicative approach and other approaches
check the book - How
Languages are Learned 4th edition - Oxford Handbooks for Language
Teachers - Oxford University Press, P. M. Lightbown and N. Spada)*.
This
fact led me to a reflection today, I am willing to teach the content
offered by the book using a different perspective, for example,
instead of showing them a "British communicative situation"
(Henceforth BCS) I will be showing them another variety, for example
Indian or maybe Brazilian, the only barrier to that is the finding of
the material and the time to be spent in search of those, but nothing
comes if you don't pose yourself to it.
So,
today, with my students, instead of teaching them with listening and
multi-modal materials directed to an Inner Circle Approach (KACHRU) I
will be teaching the content proposed by the school schedule but in a
broaden ELF perspective, showing them that English is all over and
that it is not as far as they think from their own everyday lives.
Bellow I'll be bulleting a few points of how my class might be
organised, in this case, what I'm aiming at and how I'll be doing
that.
- Approach a good variety of English speaking people all over the world
- Objective: Create Awareness and enable students to face other Englishes
- Teach the content proposed using a different English Perspective
- Objective: Detach the "only" reality known by the students fixed in the Inner Circle
- Make Students reflect on the idea of the English spreading
- Objective: Approaching the ideas of English as a Global Language in the English Classroom
*Available at Google Books
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