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Chapter 3

Learning the spoken language

Section 3.1 Learning the spoken language:

guiding principles

主讲： Alice Lu指导老师： Victor GAO

教材： Teaching English to young learners

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guiding guiding principlesprinciples●Meaning must come first:

•if children do not understand the spoken language, they cannot learn it.

●participate in discourse

●build up knowledge and skills for participation

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◆ Section 3.3: meaning in discourse

•a child's search to find meaning in language can drive language learning but will need support from the teacher.

◆ Section 3.4: the talk of pupils and teacher is analyzed in some detail

•using the concepts of demand and support

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◆ Section 3.5: the literature about children's discourse development

◆ Section 3.6: ways of classroom activities

•Those activities can support children's discourse skills development in the foreign language

•to explore the discourse skills

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◆ Section 3.7: Examples of short language practice activities

•activities that can be developed from a single set of pictures

◆ Section 3.8: discusses the use of dialogues in the classroom and their relation

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Chapter 3

Learning the spoken language

Section 3.2 Discourse and discourse events

主讲：陆霞飞制作：浙江第二师范学院 08级英语演讲队

指导老师：高歌教材： teaching English to young learners

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texttext

sentencesentence

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A simple example: a shopping list

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useuse and and user user factorsfactors are part are part of any analysis of any analysis of discourse, of discourse, and help explain and help explain content and content and form.form.

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texttext

sentencesentence

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The second use of The second use of discourse: in discourse: in contrast to contrast to sentence, when sentence, when it refers to it refers to a piece a piece of language longer of language longer than the sentencethan the sentence

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‘‘Discourse’ in Discourse’ in foreign language foreign language learning needslearning needs

Senses. Senses. botboth h

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Chapter 3

Learning the spoken language

Section 3.1.1Section 3.1.1 Children's drive to find meaningChildren's drive to find meaning

WWhat drives children hat drives children speaking?speaking?

The decision to

connect emotionally

communicate with other people

WWhat can children do to hat can children do to make contact with other make contact with other

people ?people ?◆They begin to communicate with others about things in their shared world.

◆ They develop their vocabulary of labels alongside their developing abilities to categories.

language

For infants:For infants:

language

social meanings

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partial partial understandunderstand

inging

more compare more compare understandingsunderstandings

The social and affective drive to The social and affective drive to share understandingshare understanding

social knowledgesocial knowledge

help children findhelp children find social purposesocial purpose

a means of a means of communicationcommunication

communicative pressure:communicative pressure:

A social motivation to construct shared

understanding when children’s language resources are not

sufficient