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Jazz1975
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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:55 am Post subject: Education Terms...preparing for the ECC Grammar Test |
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| I have my interview with ECC next Thursday and I'm aware that part of the grammar test involves identifying teaching terms. From some of the threads I've read, the following terms were on the test: "Realia", "Chaining", "Role-play" & "Introducing a dialogue". I can probably figure out what role playing is. Can anyone tell me what the other terms mean and/or how they would be exhibited in a quote that a teacher would say? Thanks. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: Re: Education Terms...preparing for the ECC Grammar Test |
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| Jazz1975 wrote: |
| I have my interview with ECC next Thursday and I'm aware that part of the grammar test involves identifying teaching terms. From some of the threads I've read, the following terms were on the test: "Realia", "Chaining", "Role-play" & "Introducing a dialogue". I can probably figure out what role playing is. Can anyone tell me what the other terms mean and/or how they would be exhibited in a quote that a teacher would say? Thanks. |
Realia:any item that is not specifically designed for a language or ESl classroom but is used in class e.g. a menu, a bus timetable, a phone directory. i.e a "real" item from daily life.
Chaining. Not sure but I think it means getting a student to add on to what has been said before and building up a 'chain' of sentences. Think chain-smoking and you get the idea.
Role-play is to get the students to act out a dialog in class as if it were real. e.g in a restaurant, bus stop, hotel etc. One is a waiter, the the other is a customer.
Introducing a dialog is setting the scene so studnets understand what the situation is.
Who is speaking? who are the participants? where are they? What time of day is it? when is the conversation taking place? why is the conversation taking place? |
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Jazz1975
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:26 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, Paul. Very informative as usual. You've made my day. Gonna print this out  .
To everyone else, esp. those who have gone through the ECC test: If you can remember any of the other terms that were on the test or terms that MIGHT be on there, please let me know what they are and the definitions if you know them. Thanks again. |
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Jazz1975
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:33 am Post subject: Re: Education Terms...preparing for the ECC Grammar Test |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| Chaining. Not sure but I think it means getting a student to add on to what has been said before and building up a 'chain' of sentences. Think chain-smoking and you get the idea. |
Is chaining like that campfire game where one person says one word and the people who go after them "add" on to that generating an entire story? |
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Birdog3344
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:52 am Post subject: |
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| Chaining is a technique used to improve a student's pronunciation and fluency when chorusing a sentence or phrase. Rather than having the student repeat the entire group of words, you break them down into individual parts and progressively build them into the full structure, like adding links in a chain. Its recommended to start at the end of the sentence and work your way backward so when you reach the beginning the student has confidence with the following words. |
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Jazz1975
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, Birdog . |
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Jazz1975
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| Are there any other terms that are on the test or just ones I should be mindful of in case they do appear on the test? |
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Birdog3344
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| Chorusing is when the student listens to and repeats a new word, phrase or sentence the teacher introduces. |
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Jazz1975
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| Hmmmmmm...how would i distinguish this from 'chaining'? I can see the two sounding alike when examples are given. |
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Birdog3344
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| You chorus the complete sentence all at once and you chain the words individually to increase fluency. |
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abufletcher
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Birdog3344 wrote: |
| Its recommended to start at the end of the sentence and work your way backward so when you reach the beginning the student has confidence with the following words. |
Wow, I haven't heard this term in, like, forever! It must be some holdover from the audio-lingual era because I remember being taught this technique more than 25 years ago!
Pencil. A pencil. I am a pencil.
I vaguely remember that there was supposed to be some psycholinguistic point to the "back-chaining" -- probably linked to memory. These days though I work much more with "chunking" and "chunked language" as in (Couldya)(gimme)(that thing)(over there). |
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Jazz1975
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| Ayeeeeeeeeee....just found another teaching term that might be on the test: Elicit. Can anyone tell me what this term means? |
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abufletcher
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This isn't so much a teaching term as just a general term in academic English. But you do hear it a lot in EFL circles as in "techniques for eliciting talk from the students" where it simply means "getting talk" from the students -- or in simpler (and somewhat more brutal sounding terms) "making the students talk."
Might I suggest www.dictionary.com? |
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abufletcher
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Or try running a simple "concordance" for "elicit" on the following site. It's really easy. Just type in the word and hit "Show Concs":
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
Try as far as possible to elicit answers
designed to perhaps elicit certain responses
They elicit the best response
the ability of a woman to elicit information |
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abufletcher
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This isn't so much a teaching term as just a general terms in academic English. But you do hear it a lot in EFL circles as in "elicit talk from the students" where it simply means "get talk out of the students."
Might I suggest www.dictionary.com? |
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