Jump Into Story-Listening
This Course will begin with a demonstration video featuring a folktale from Greece: CAT WOMAN. The Course will then be presented in the following five Classes :
- How to select a story
- How to prepare for a SL session
- How to evaluate students’ progress
- Other relevant topics including drawing and when SL fails
- Aiming for Optimal Input
Each topic will include a video presentation and will be accompanied by supplemental text explanation.
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Story-Listening is a foreign language teaching method developed by Dr. Beniko Mason and based on Second Language Acquisition Theory.
Class 1:
Preparation
- Choosing the story
- Make the story your own
- Making the Prompter (Optimal Input application - How can we help input become optimal input?)
- Rehearsing: How I prepare for an SL lesson
Class 2:
Delivery
- Gathering attention
- Keep their attention to the end
- How to open up the beginning
- How to end the story
- What I draw and when I draw
- What I do with each word on the Prompter
- What can we do after telling a story
Class 3:
Assessment
- How do I know that the students understood the story
- What is the purpose of summary writing?
- Formative evaluation
- Summative evaluation
- Quantitative evaluation
- Questionnaires and individual interviews
- Standardized Tests or Teacher made tests?
Class 4:
Further Understanding
- About drawing
- When SL fails
- I+1
- Why SL/GSSR is the best method so far
Class 5:
Aiming for Optimal Input
- Optimal Input
- Background Information
- Story Within a Story
- Optimal Unpredictability
- Quantity
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