S9: Language Awareness Training (SCT, 25-26)

​S9: Language Awareness Training (SCT, 25-26)

By Paul Sze

ACT 1: 10+ language issues to think about

discuss in pairs: What are they trying to say?

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/EQFTlV6rg0rMUk

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Poll

Which spelling(s) would you accept if the phrase refers to Sept 10 of every year? Tick all the ones you find acceptable.

• Teacher's Day

• Teachers' Day

• Teachers Day

Open Ended

What is the difference between these 2 sentences?

(A) I like his sense of humour.

(B) What I like about him is his sense of humour.

Poll

Did you formally learn the following sentence structures from your teachers at school?

"What I like about him is his sense of humour."

"It's because I love her that I care about her so much."

"How they did it I have no idea."

• yes

• no

• can't remember

Open Ended

Would you accept the following sentence? If not, how would you rephrase it?

"My favourite fruit is apples."

Open Ended

You applied to CUHK 10 months ago, so you're sitting in this classroom tonight

Write a sentence to express this above idea:

"If I had not ........, I ......... this classroom tonight."

Try the following language survey

https://questionpro.com/t/AM1DQZqtY3

Open Ended

To you, what is the difference between WILL-FUTURE and GOING TO?

Open Ended

• Teachers sometimes think of grammar instruction as teaching students a set of grammar rules that they just follow. What thoughts come to your mind after attempting the above tasks?

• ACT 2: Work through the Webquest below:

• https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/Gg1eQa63-iQAFuKHUgQAAA/PHCV4PR/webquest-langu?teacher_id=5683224028119040

​ACT 3: bROWSE THE TWO LESSON DESIGNS BELOW.

• S1: Playing with Adverbs

  • https://sway.office.com/C700haO6vCEqoUOS?ref=Link

• S5: 3 Types of Verb Complement

  • https://www.livebinders.com/b/3488396

ACT 3: A learning bot for 'If I were ..., I would/would not ...'

• https://gemini.google.com/share/0b7ee4bc0d65

Multiple Select

Which are the rationales for employing language awareness training in the teaching of grammar? (Tick more than one answer.)

• We want Ss to be more 'language-aware' in the long run.

• Grammar rules are often abstract and cannot be understood easily.

• Students can spend less time on grammar exercises.

• There are often exceptions to conventional grammar rules.

• Information Technology facilitates the creation of LA tasks.

Poll

How convinced are you now in adding LA training to your grammar teaching? (1-low; 5-high)?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5