How to deal with EL Learner- center

How to deal with EL
Learner- centered Hands-on projects (nature or environmental projects)
Field trips and on-site visits
Teacher- controlled
Show-and-tell sessions
Playing games Utilizing media (TV, movies, internet)

The advantage of ELT
he learner is directly in touch with the realities being studied. It is contrasted with learning in which the learner only reads about, hears about, talks about, or write about these realities but never comes in contact with them as part of the learning process

4. The episode hypothesis What episode hypothesis?
The EH is a form of language teaching where learners are motivated to continue reading and to become more involved in the content than in the language, therefore increasing its episodic flavor.
Teaching with EH
Look at this dialogue
Jack:Hi, Tony. What do you usually do on weekends?
Tony:Oh, I usually study, but sometimes I go to a movie.
Jack:Uh huh. Well, I often go to movies, but I seldom study.
Tony:Well, I don’t study as much as Greg. He always studies on the weekends. He never goes out.

How the EH relates to the integrated skills teaching
1. Episodes can be presented in either written or spoken form, thus requiring reading or/ and writing skills on the students’ part.
2. Episodes can provide the stimulus for spoken or written questions that students respond to, in turn, by speaking or writing.
3. Students can be encouraged to write their own episodes, or to complete an episode.
5. Task-based teaching
1. Target tasks : Students mush accomplish beyond the classroom
2. Pedagogical task : Form of the nucleus of the classroom activity
How to do with TB teaching
For example to teach students to give personal information in a job interview;
1. Exercises in comprehension of wh- questions with do- insertion (When do you work at Macy’s?)
2. Drills in the use of frequency adverbs (I usually work until 5 o’clock)
3. Listening to extracts of job interview
4. Analyzing the grammar of the interview
5. Modeling an interview; teacher & one student or students in pairs.