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    Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side
    Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side
    Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side
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    Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side

    By Christina Rebuffet-Broadus

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    Want to try out something new in the classroom? Shake things up and get out of a teaching rut? How about taking a walk on the wild side of ELT?

    This book gives both experienced and new teachers detailed frameworks to successfully implement experimental lessons. Aiming to create an up-to-date work on modern areas for experimentation, the authors selected five hot experimental areas in ELT: Dogme, lexical chunking, corpora in the classroom, translation 2.0 and CLIL. Each chapter provides history and background on each area, a sample lesson plan, opportunities & risks as well as dos & don’ts for each practice area. A “toolbox” at the end of each chapter opens the path for further exploration of the experimental practice jungle, with current trends and key resources. Each chapter follows the same user-friendly template, making the book a simple-to-use guide to experimentation in the ELT classroom.

    This book is aimed at:

    New teachers who want to start experimenting early to develop good habits
    Experienced teachers looking to escape old habits while developing professionally
    Cambridge Delta candidates embarking upon their Experimental Practice assignment
    Teachers seeking new ways to engage and inspire both themselves and their learners
    So what are you waiting for? Take a walk on the wild side!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristina Rebuffet-Broadus
    Release dateJan 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311329448
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      Experimental Practice in ELT - Christina Rebuffet-Broadus

      Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side

      By Jennie Wright and Christina Rebuffet-Broadus

      Copyright 2013

      Smashwords Edition

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the authors.

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      Copyright 2013 Jennie Wright and Christina Rebuffet-Broadus

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the authors. Please contact us at www.the-round.com for more information.

      Cover design by Mark Bain

      Edited by Julie Moore

      We would like to dedicate this book to our patient husbands, Romain and Matthew. We would also like to express our thanks to the dedicated team at ESOL Strasbourg - Jane Ryder, Dennis Davy and Peter Strutt - who brought us together and without whom this book may never have been written.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Dogme

      Chapter 2 – Lexical Chunking

      Chapter 3 – Corpora in the Classroom

      Chapter 4 – Translation

      Chapter 5 – Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

      Conclusion

      Glossary

      Introduction

      Why this book?

      The idea for this book originated during a workshop. A group of teachers were lamenting the absence of a one-stop resource which covered a variety of contemporary approaches, techniques and methods for teachers wanting to experiment in the classroom. Instead of continuing to gripe, we decided to put our 26 years of ELT experience together to write this book.

      Who is this book for?

      Whether you are a new or experienced teacher, this book gives you five ways to experiment with your teaching. You may want to get out of a teaching rut, develop professionally, solve old problems with new solutions, or just shake things up.

      For candidates doing the Cambridge Delta, this book can be used to guide your Experimental Practice assignment in Module Two and help you address the unique opportunities and challenges that each selection in this book provides.

      What is experimental practice?

      Also known as exploratory teaching, experimental practice (also referred to as EP in this book) is simply trying out something new for you as a teacher, and then evaluating what transpired afterwards.

      What special features does this book have?

      To start experimenting immediately, go to the chapter that most interests you. Each chapter follows the same format with both theory and practical classroom application. Each chapter consists of:

      History & Background

      Experimental Practice

      Sample Lesson Plan

      Lesson Principles

      Opportunities

      Risks

      Dos and Don’ts

      Toolbox

      Why these five chapters?

      We surveyed Cambridge Delta tutors in Europe, asking them about the Experimental Practice assignment in Delta Module Two, and the most common choices their diploma candidates made. The candidates’ top 5 experimental practice topics from the results (see charts below) were selected for this book. Alternative historical approaches such as Suggestopedia, Total Physical Response and the Silent Way were not picked as we felt these already had sufficient resources.

      Now, let’s set out on an EP journey – take a Walk on the Wild Side with us!

      Dogme

      History & Background

      When Scott Thornbury was first inspired by the film director Lars von Trier in 2000, he was presumably unaware of the revolution and debate he would start in ELT. The Dogme movement initially took its core ideas from Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 manifesto which vowed to move towards traditional filmmaking without the use of special effects or props. Thornbury's creation of his own vows of EFL chastity came from witnessing a dependency on materials as a teacher-trainer. As a result, the movement began as a way to wage war on material driven lessons (Thornbury, 2000). Luke Meddings is another founder of the Dogme ELT movement and after nine years of articles, talks, and Yahoo! Group discussion, Meddings and Thornbury published Teaching Unplugged: Dogme in English Language Teaching. The book contains a description of Dogme principles as well as activities and considerations for applying Dogme to the classroom.

      In Teaching Unplugged, the basic principles of Dogme ELT are outlined:

      - Interactivity between the teacher and learners leads to co-construction of knowledge.

      - The most engaging material will come from the learners themselves.

      - Language is not acquired. It emerges organically given the right conditions.

      - If materials are used, they should have relevance for the learners.

      - The teacher’s role is to draw attention to features of emergent language and optimize learning affordances.

      Adapted from Meddings and Thornbury 2009, p.7

      The principles of Dogme are not revolutionary in and of themselves. Thornbury plainly admits this, saying: There’s nothing very original in Dogme (Thornbury 2005, p.3). It has roots in humanistic education, the communicative approach, critical pedagogy, and other materials-light approaches. It also ties in with motivational factors discussed by Dörnyei (2001, p. 35), who advises teachers to let [learners] know they are expected to be curious to increase motivation. Although the ideas of Dogme may not be new, giving a name to this teaching approach has helped create a community of ‘Dogmeticians.’ This does not mean that they teach exclusively in Dogme style, but they do recognise the value of consciously integrating the approach’s principles into their teaching.

      Experimental Practice

      Dogme is

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