TKT

Teaching Knowledge TestAn internationally recognized teaching qualification from Cambridge ESOL for teachers of English in primary, secondary or adult teaching contexts

TKT COURSEA three module course aiming to increase teachers' confidence and enhance job prospects by focusing on core teaching knowledge related to language, language use and the background to and practice

of language teaching and learning.

The Three Modules

Language and background to language learning and teaching

•Describing what language is and language skills

•Background to language learning

•Background to language teaching

The Three Modules

Planning lessons and use of resources for language teaching 

•Planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons

•Selection and use of resources and materials

The Three Modules

Managing the teaching and learning process

•Teachers’ and learners’ language in the classroom

•Classroom management

What /Where is the project anchored in?

INSPIRATION!

INSPIRATION

When the question is

complicatedThe answer is

Simple

•Describing what language is and language skills

•Background to language learning

•Background to language teaching

•Planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons

•Selection and use of resources and materials

•Teachers’ and learners’ language in the classroom

•Classroom management

What language is

Are we constantly and consistently helping students to understand what language is?

Have we constantly and consistently introduced English as it is a language?

Process-Oriented

Problem-Solving

班級 :____________ 座號 :___________ 姓名 : ___________

1. Meg and I love mom very much. She roller-skate with _______

every Saturday.

(A) her (B) me (C) us (D) we

2. Kevin plays basketball everyday( 改成被動式 )

__________________________________________________________

What are the problems?

• “I would like to buy a hamburger”

---Sound: Inadequate phonological training

• “The moon walking bear”

---Form: Unbalanced formal processing

• “Basketball is played by him everyday”

--- Meaning: Non-functional view of forms

• “Meg and I love mom very much. She roller-skates with us/me/her on Saturday”

--- Message: De-contextualization

Do we know what we are thinking?

Awareness

Solutions

Through phonological awareness, we learn to associate sounds with symbols and create links to word recognition and decoding skills necessary for reading. http://www.phonologicalawareness.org/

The Significant Other

Solutions

“What learners notice in input is what becomes intake for learning.”

Schmidt, R. (1995). Consciousness and foreign language learning

50 Below Zerohttp://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/full_book.asp?ProductID=2490

Solutions

Since language is fundamentally a tool, it is reasonable to assume that its structures are best analyzed and understood with reference to the

functions they carry out.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_theories_of_grammar

Historian, Scientist and Fortune Teller

Solutions

Contextual sensitivity was part of our pre-human heritage, and was not relinquished when language developed.

(Dan Issac Slobin “Social interaction, social context, and language” p.29)

What you think you don’t know, you do