3. LEARNING ENGLISH
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Learning English” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section focuses on defining the process of learning English, with particular reference to the links between learning and using the language outside the EFL classroom for authentic interactional purposes, as many learners do nowadays. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of the context in using and learning English, which is further explored in the Sections referring to “Establishing context”, “Instructional context” and “Our learners”. This Section includes two Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: The importance of context
- Activity 2: Teachers and “teachees” *
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How to cite this section:
Sifakis, N. (2021). Learning English [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project. (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/175-3-learning-english)
2.4 Language assessment
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Language assessment” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section focuses on language assessment and on the ways in which issues related to English as a Lingua Franca may be integrated in it. To this end, different types of assessment are described, including summative, formative and alternative assessment. Emphasis is placed on how language assessment in the classroom can be culturally and linguistically sensitive and flexible by adopting an ELF-aware perspective. This Section includes four Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: Your views on assessment
- Activity 2: Your assessment practices
- Activity 3: Reviewing textbook and learning materials
- Activity 4: Observation form *
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How to cite this section:
Tishakov, T. and Reed, K. (2021). Language assessment [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project. (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/173-2-4-language-assessment)
2.3.3 Employing ICT
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Employing Information and Communication Technologies” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section focuses on how we can use ICT in English language teaching and learning for various purposes. Several ICT tools and applications are presented, highlighting the ways in which they could create an in-class environment fostering the learners’ language and communication skills. This Section includes three Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Click here to watch the video “What Is the SAMR Model?”.
Click here to explore Flipgrid.
Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: How do you usually use ICT?
- Activity 2: Criteria and kinds of online activities *
- Activity 3: Using Flipgrid
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How to cite this section:
Cannelli, A. (2021). Employing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project. (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/171-2-3-3-employing-ict)
2.5 Lesson planning and evaluation
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Lesson planning and evaluation” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section discusses the importance of lesson planning and the ways in which a lesson plan can improve teaching and learning and contribute to evaluating the impact of a lesson not only to the learners but the teacher as well. This Section is very hands-on and closely linked with the requirements of the Final Assignment of the Course. For this reason, a sample “Lesson Plan Template” is also provided. This Section includes four Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Click here to download the file “Lesson plan template”.
Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: Introduction to lesson planning
- Activity 2: The components of a lesson plan
- Activity 3: From planning to evaluating a lesson
- Activity 4: Planning and evaluating an ELF-aware lesson *
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How to cite this section:
Sifakis, N. and Kordia, S. (2021). Lesson planning and evaluation [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/174-2-5-lesson-planning-evaluation)
2.3.4 Corpora for language learning
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Employing corpora for language learning” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section focuses on the use and function of language corpora in language research and language learning. The aim is to learn how to consult and use corpora in English language teaching and to explore the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in language corpora. To this end, the most relevant ELF corpora are discussed and offered for consultation. Two of the major platforms for consulting corpora – BYU and SketchEngine – are presented, while Data Driven Learning (DDL) is introduced as a powerful approach to language learning where real language data are investigated by learners and learner-centered activities focus on language discovery. This Section includes four Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Click here to watch the video “Prof. McCarthy reflects on corpora and spoken language”.
Click here to watch the video “Corpus Linguistics: The Basics”.
Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: What are corpora?
- Activity 2: What can corpora reveal about English? *
- Activity 3: Extracts from English spoken corpora
- Activity 4: Corpora for discovering authentic use of English
- Additional Activity: Example from VOICE
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How to cite this section:
Lopriore, L. and Fiasco, V. (2021). Employing corpora for language learning [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project. (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/172-2-3-4-corpora-for-language-learning)
2.3.2 Employing CLIL
Review Materials
Welcome to the “Employing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)” Section of the ENRICH CPD Course. This Section first traces the history of the development of CLIL in very diverse teaching contexts, from the first immersion programs in the USA and Canada, to the European introduction of CLIL in the Council of Europe language policies. The relevance of the role of language in CLIL highlights its close connection with language awareness and the need of language authenticity in an ELF-aware approach. This Section includes 4 Activities in total.
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Supplementary Materials
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Click here to watch the video “Do Coyle - What is CLIL? 1/7”.
Click here to watch the video “Professor Do Coyle - What are the advantages and challenges of CLIL”.
Click here to download the file “Checklist - How CLIL are you?”.
Activities
This Section includes the following Activities:
- Activity 1: Defining CLIL
- Activity 2: CLIL’s principle, advantages and challenges
- Activity 3: CLIL in an ELF-aware approach
- Activity 4: How CLIL are you? *
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How to cite this section:
Lopriore, L. (2021). Employing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) [Online Lecture]. In N. Sifakis and S. Kordia (Eds.), The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course. The ENRICH Project. (http://enrichproject.eu/lessons/170-2-3-2-employing-clil)