Exposure and Focus on FormWhat is it?

Exposure

* Children learn language by picking it up from their surroundings automatically.

* What is the main way that children learn their first language?

* How do babies acquire language?

PARENTS’ TALK

Parents start talking to their little baby from the day he is born

(Those parents who don’t talk to their babies, are laying the foundation for a late talker)

BY REPETITION

By hearing language as the parents talk and talk to it.

The more a parent can talk to a child, often repeating the same words, the same phrases, the same structures over and over, the sooner the child will learn language.

By reading to the child

Parents should read to their children as often as possible. The secret, however, which will lead to optimal language development, is to read the same stories over and over and over.

By singing nursery rhymes

Research has shown that knowledge of nursery rhymes among three-year-olds help children to develop pre-reading skills.

Three main ways in learning foreign language

Acquiring- Exposure to the surroundings should be:

-rich in variety-difficult enough-interesting

Interaction- to communicate with the other people successfuly

-express ourselves to make people understand us. -understand them

Focus on form-to study and practice the form of language used

They need to hear and read a wide variety of language at the right level for them, either inside and outside the classroom

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COMPREHENSIBLE and CORRECT

INPUT

SILENT PERIOD

• Learners need time to acquire language. They need their own silent period.

INTERACTION

Learners need to use language to interact with classmates

FOCUS ON FORMS

•Learners need opportunity to focus on forms of language.

LEARNING STYLES

• Each learner has their own particular way of learning language.

GROUP REFLECTION

DISCUSS WHAT METHOD (S) DO YOUR STUDENTS SEEM TO PREFER?

What activities do you notice they enjoy most?

What activities seem to be more efficient for your student’s learning?

TKT GLOSARY

EXPOSURE When learners listen to or read

language without being consciously aware of it.

ACQUISITION

To learn a language without studying it, just by hearing and/or reading and then using it. This is the way we all learn our first language.

SILENT PERIOD

The time when students who are beginning to learn a first or second language prefer to listen (or read) for some time before producing the language.

Focus on form

To pay attention to language by identifying and practising it.

INTERACTION

Use the language to express ourselves to communicate successfully

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY PAGE. 42

AQUISITION: 1, 2, 7, 8

INTERACTION:2,7,8

FOCUS ON FORM: 3,4, 5, 6, 9, 10

Tkt practice task PAGE. 43

CHOOSE A,B or C1. A Children under the age

of five. 2. C Acquire more language.3. C Process the language .4. C Learning language just

by hearing or reading it.5. B Pay attention to

accuracy and use.