World Language Classroom | Teaching Ideas, Activities and Strategies

In this episode I take on the topic of communicative language teaching (CLT).  What is it exactly and how do we teach communicatively? [sign up for Talking Points]

Topics:

• CLT is an approach and not a method.
• Difference between an approach and a method?
•  Bill VanPatten's description of  CLT.
• The role of input.
• The role of output.
• The communicative classroom:
  • student-centered
  • students create with language
  • focus is communicating messages

What does this look like in the classroom?

• Performance
• Assessment

What does the teacher do in the communicative language classroom?

**Blog post on the communicative language teaching mindset shift.
**Download pdf with all of these details on communicative language teaching

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In this episode we look at what language teaching  looked like in the past and what it looks like now.  We get into specific methods that were based on Behaviorism and Innatism along with what teaching looks like now in the communicative classroom.  [sign up for Talking Points]

Topics:

• Audio-Lingual Method
• Suggestopedia
• Silent Way
• The Natural Approach
• Communicative Competence
• TPR
• TPRS 
• CI 
• OWL 
• AIM 

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In this episode I discuss 3 major approaches to language teaching of the past 50+ years.  It's helpful to understand where it all started and how we arrived at the communicative teaching practices that we employ in our classroom.  [sign up for Talking Points]

Sometimes we need to look to the past to fully understand how to got to where we are now.

Find out  about:

• Behaviorism; Pavlov, Skinner
• Innatism; Chomsky
• Social Interactionism; Vygotsky, Hymes

What has been refuted, supported or sustained in our modern approaches? 

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I share my educational background  and teaching experience of the past 25 years.  This helps to give you a better understanding of where I'm coming from and what has contributed to my teaching approach. [sign up for Talking Points]

You'll also get a solid picture of what this podcast will offer you and what you can expect in each episode.

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Listen to what is in store for you when you listen to the World Language Classroom podcast with Joshua Cabral. [sign up for Talking Points]

Tips, tools and insights to help your students grow in language proficiency and communicate with confidence. 

Based in research, but put into action in the classroom. 

You'll hear from Joshua as well as other language teachers who share insights and lessons learned along their language teaching journey.

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