A Taste of Dogme for YLE

Duda Costa Marília Santos

Presentation MenuPrinciples

What is Teaching Unplugged?

Why?

About YLE

Lesson Plan

Activities

Routines

Portfolios

Principles

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

The most engaging material will come from the learners themselves.

Language emerges organically given the right conditions.

Principles

If used, materials should have relevance for the learners.

The teacher's role: to draw attentiom to features of emergent language.

Wright & Rebuffet-Broadus, 2013

What is Teaching Unplugged?

Conversation-driven

Materials-light

Focused on emergent language

Why?

Why are my students learning this?

How is it going to be useful?

What do they talk about when they are outside the classroom?

How can we teach them to communicate those things in English?

How can they notice they are learning?

What does it say about YLE?

YLE learn by doing. GRAMMAR

L2 as a natural alternative to L1.

Keep a record.

Personalise.

"(...) let learners know they are expected to be curious to increase motivation".

(Dörnyei, 2001)

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

ACTIVITIES

Favourite objects in class

Favourite objects in class

Elicit numbers and colours

Make a poster

Elicit classroom objects

Label objects

Vote on their 3 favourite objects

(Count the votes)

Produce a chart / sentences

My super hero

Teacher brings her super hero

Waits for sts to ask questions to the puppet

In the following lesson, sts bring their own toys

Ask questions, produce a text

Monsters

My routine

Teacher gives examples: On Monday I go to Cultura.

Sts respond, if they use L1, teach them how to say the activity in L2.

They put the activities on the floor.

They write or talk about them, looking for coincidences.

Book Project

Book ProjectWhat's your ______? Do you like ______?

Students invite their friends to school

Running dictation with gapped questions

Students complete the gaps with what they want

Students interview their friends

They produce a text about their friends

Last week

T makes a graph describing her week.

Sts respond

Sts do the same

Sts compare weeks, discuss, vote...

Sts write a short text

My opinion

My opinion

Elicit / Teach opinion adjectives

Students write sentences about their favourite films and their opinion about their schools

Teacher gets a sentence and students position themselves according to their opinion

Variation: students change positions if they agree

How does it smell / sound / feel / taste ?

Play parts of different songs, and students write their opinion

Fold their eyes and spray scents and ask their opinion

Fold their eyes and get objects with different textures and ask their opinion

Fold their eyes and have them taste different flavours and ask their opinion

Sometimes it fails..."Don't feel obliged to continue with activities that are

evidently not working or are

failing to facilitate learning".

Wright & Rebuffet-Broadus, 2013

ROUTINES

Class Menu

Making posters with new language

Making posters with new language

Reflecting on the lesson

Checklists

Vocabulary box

"Recording, reviewing and recycling instances of learner language".

(Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury, 2009)

By the end of the lesson...

Sts have to say a password before they leave.

Now I can...

Now I can...

PORTFOLIOS

Portfolios

Portfolios

Portfolios

Portfolios

Thank you!

Duda Costa - uabacosta@gmail.com

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