UNIT 1. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR INFANT EDUCATION
1. Classroom Language
• Language = dynamic phenomenon (basically as a system of communicative
acts and situations)
• Learning a foreign language implies not only the manipulation of linguistic
structures and the knowledge of vocabulary and phonetic features. It
involves learning how to communicate in the language effectively, correctly
and appropriately.
• The new plurilingual European context demands this communicate
approach.
2. Communicative competence
• Starts from theory of language as COMMUNICATION. The goal of
language teaching is to develop what Hymes referred to as
“Communicative competence” (what a speaker needs to know in order to
be communicatively component in a speech community) F 0
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requirements for Infant Eduaction nationwide: communicative
competence as comprising 5 subcompenteces:
a) Grammar competence units as rules of the language system
b) Discourse competence: communicative situation and on the
interlocutors.
c) Sociolinguistic competence: linguistic community
d) Strategic competence: verbal and non-verbal communication
e) Sociocultural compentece: social and cultural context
3. The role of L1
• L1 (mother language) is not considered as an obstacle to learning L2
(foreign language)
4. Class language
• Foreign language classroom is a communicative context in which it is
possible to use L2 for all the transactions, the English is used in the class is
directly transferable to other real-world situations and it’s a source of real
input for children.
• Purposes: presenting language, checking understanding, clarifying doubts,
giving instructions, modelling, setting up activities, giving feedback and
asking for info
5. Non-verbal communication in the class
•Gesture, facial expression and mime can be used to clarify linguistic input,
to reinforce the meaning of instructions, to provide info on activities, to
reduce verbal explanations and to attract the students’ attention
6. Giving instructions
• Become aware of your instruction-giving strategies
• Prepare them
• Attract their attention
• Use simple language
• Involve senses
•Give examples
• Get feedback for the students.
