2016 english and soft skills
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Creation of resources to develop soft skills
in a foreign language classroom
with Grzegorz Spiewak
Connect these dots by drawing four straight lines, without lifting your pencil off the paper and without going back over a line. You have 2 minutes.
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So, it’s the famiar true-false reading exercise format, applied to a new type of content and thus smuggling in an
element of thinking skills training
Learning English for No Obvious Reason
In order to reduce this …
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Vocabulary
Grammar
Tenses prepositions
nouns
verbs
punctuation
Sentence structure
gerunds
reading
writing
listening
Speaking
prefixes
suffixes
phonics
pronunciation
This (i.e. teaching English as a body of linguistic knowledge) is no loger attractive enough…
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E E
“… as English becomes more generally available, little or no competitive advantage is gained by adopting it.
Rather, it has become a new baseline: without English you are not even in the race.”
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“without English you are not even in the race.”
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E E
07/03/2016 14 Emma Sue Prince, web talk at Macmillan Life Skills Day May 2014
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Arguably, some of these are hardly teachable
– but some indeed are!
an example …
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spam, router favourites home browser download social network
another example …
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EUYMCABCWHODVD
EUY MCAB CWH ODVD
EU YMCA BC WHO DVD
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and another one …
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Your friend has some new clothes. They don’t look good. You say they look good.
Your mum cooks dinner and it isn’t very nice. You say you’re not hungry.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/moral-dilemmas-that-will-break-your-brain#.sajy8zLvV
“In a globalised, postmodern world a rather different model of education has emerged. An individual, to participate fully in the new economy – as worker, consumer and responsible citizen – needs to be even better informed and needs higher-order and more flexible skills.”
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“higher-order and more flexible skills.”
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07/03/2016 33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRxPJcd0zDw
07/03/2016 35 http://thoughtfullearning.com/resources/what-are-21st-century-skills
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INFLUENCE
LEARN THINK
RELATE
to-self
to-people
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THINK
EUYMCABCWHODVD
EUY MCAB CWH ODVD
EU YMCA BC WHO DVD
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LEARN
RELATE
some
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INFLUENCE
O J E
• Teenage boys waste their lives playing online games all day long.
vs.
• Online gaming is going to be one of the most attractive career tracks in very near future.
Opinion Justification Example
F R E E
Fact Reason Example 1 Example 2
Controversy workout
• Voting should be compulsory.
• There are many stupid men in politics.
• The political world is changing because there are more women in it.
Controversy workout
* AGREE
** DISAGREE
*** APPLY TO YOURSELF
**** GIVE AN EXAMPLE
***** FOR & AGAINST
****** GIVE TWO EXAMPLES AND
CONTRAST
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RELATE
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procedure: Three deliveries of one talk; Ss work in pairs with one acting as the speaker and the other as listener, The speaker speaks for 3 minutes on a topic while their partner listens; Then the pairs change, with each speaker giving the same information to a new partner in 2 minutes, followed by a further exchange and a 1-minute talk
some
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THINK
six-word-
memoirs
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some
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THINK
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THINK
THINK sofa
chair
bed
cupboard
coffee table
mirror
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Odd ONE out - Odd TWO out - Odd THREE out – etc. (Lindsay Clandfield’s CT technique: „creating an environment of uncertainty. With MANY possible right answers!”)
shortage opinion food
rest of the world
‘Discussions are an excellent tool for developing students’ reasoning skills because they give you access to their thought processes and guide students to a higher level of thinking.’
acknowledgement: Prof. Rob Reich, Stanford University 60
some
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LEARN
LEARN
‘Only … % of learners use learning
strategies and memory techniques’
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‘Teachers would be more prepared to suggest these techniques to their learners if they themselves have had more experience of them.’
increase I SOLATE
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I SOLATE
red blue green
thick - thin
R E D D A L
head bas
mouth auyz
shoulders iyk
belly ish
foot ayak
……… ……………
http://www.tagxedo.com
One authentic example produced by a teenage student
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LEARN
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LEARN
In what order…?!
Overwhelming…
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How will I know they’ve got it?!
http://www.macmillanenglish.com/searchresultstemplate.aspx
acknowledgement: Marta Rosinska
