Listening To The Inaudible

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Mauricio Souza Neto Nadivan Costa



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uak7xWAMJCo


Addison;


“Listening” activities with a deaf student Animated videos, mainly with subtitles; Monitoring with tapescript;


“Each and every word expresses the ‘one’ in relation to the ‘other’. […] A word is a bridge thrown between myself and another... A word is territory shared by both addresser and addressee, by the speaker and his interlocutor” (VOLOSHINOV, 1973, p.86)”

Sts’ (un)interaction; “[interaction is]the context and process through which language can be learned” (PICA, 1996)


Teachers as ethnographers (c.f. HEATH, 1984)


Listening to the inaudible •

“Hearing the inaudible” (LASS, 1997, p.45)

“The art of making the best use of bad data” (LABOV, 1982, p. 20)



Source: Cambridge Dictionary


Source: Cambridge Dictionary


Food for thought 1)Do you have quiet students in your classes?

2)Why are they quiet?


Reasons provided by teachers at In-service:  Lack of interest;  Shyness;  External problems;  Lessons (too easy or too difficult);  T centred lesson;  Strong student leading the class;  Don’t want to expose themselves;  Lack of opportunity;  Don’t want to leave comfort zone;  Depression;  Puberty


Reasons: Tiredness Personality

Shyness Quietness

Uninteresting class/topic Fear of exposing weaknesses Does not like English/teacher (parents forcing??) Does not like the class(mates)


Food for thought 1)How do you approach quiet students in your classes? 2) How do you engage quiet students to your classes?


Teachers’ sharing:







Our proposals:


Angels - Sts are given cards with classmates’ names (to whom they’ll work as ‘angels’); - Sts have to pay attention to their ‘pupil’

(interaction, participation, etc) - At the end of the class, 10 minutes are given

for revelation and feedback;


QR code tasks http://goqr.me/

https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/


Collaborative writing tasks


Pair-check homework correction


Face-to-face discussion (onion ring)


Chain story activities


Beans for your participation By Eduardo Siemens

Source: http://wonderingaboutelt.blogspot.com.br/2014 /09/beans-for-your-participation.html


Radio project By Rodrigo UzĂŞda

How to do it? The project is composed of three phases:

- Sts write the questions, - Sts have peers correct them - Sts take the script home to interview their parents.

http://rodrigouzeda9.wix.com/tp1---2015-1


References: BAKHTIN/VOLOSHINOV . Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Trans. by L. Matejka and I.R. Titunik. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. HEATH, Shirley. Ways with words. Cambridge: CUP, 1984

LABOV, William. Principles of Linguistic Change. Internal Factors. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994 LASS, Roger. Historical linguistics and language change. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. PICA, Teresa. Second Language Learning Through Interaction: Multiple Perspectives. Available at: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED401756.pdf


Talk to us

mauricio@culturainglesa-ba.com.br nadivan@culturainglesa-ba.com.br


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