Chapter V

Instructional Materials for Language Teaching

Instructional Material for Language Teaching

• It will be easier for us to find the appropriate instructional materials and activities that we need for every topic and objective.

• In this chapter we will find a randomized enumeration and descriptions of various instructional materials and activities that we need in language teaching

• Some may be used best in the initial phase; other at the concluding phase and the rest, at the lesson proper.

• Graphic Organizer• Summary Narratives• Value Integration Techniques / Tools• Non-Linguistic representations

Graphic Organizers

Vocabulary Terms and Phrases

Vocabulary Terms and Phrases

Vocabulary Terms and Phrases

Provide the most important characteristic of a term or a phrase along with the examples that that describe it.

Time Sequence

Include a chronology of important events that occurred between two points in time

EPISODE

Used for events that occurred at a specific time and place , had a specific participants lasted for A specific duration of time, involved a specific sequence of events and had an specific effects.

GeneralizationGeneralizationGeneralization

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Generalization are statements in which examples can be provided

CAUSE/EFFECT SEQUENCE

Used for events that produce a product or an effect

SUMMARY FRAMES

The Narrative Frames The Narrative/story Frames contains the following elements

• Character• Setting• Initiating event• Internal response• Goal• Consequence• Resolution

Topic-Restriction-Illustration Frame

• Topic• Restriction• Illustration

Argumentative Frame

• Evidence• Claim• Support• Qualifier

Problem-Solution FrameThis Frame presents a problem and identify one or more solution

• Problem• Solution• Solution• Solution

The Conversation FrameA Conversation is a verbal interchange among two or more people

• Greeting• Inquiry• Discussion

- Assertions- Requests- Promises- Demands- Treats- Congratulations

Non-Linguistic representations

Pictographs

Photographs

Physical models

Kinesthetic Activities

Explicit cues

Teacher-prepared notes

Comparison matrix

Generating Mental Pictures

English Debate

Value Integration Techniques / Tools

Value Sheet

• It consist of a provocative statement to raise an issue that have a value implication for student

• “To make English as medium of instruction in schools is not a nationalist act”

Value Clarifying Question

• Can we love our country our country even if we can speak English better than Filipino?

• Can we claim we love our country even if we don’t speak our national language?

• Is there really a need for a national language?

Voting

• Are you for school policy on no field trip?

Rank Ordering

• Teacher• Engineer• Doctor• Nurse• Farmer• Musician

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Value Continuum

• Movie stars are not meant for congress?• SA – strongly disagree• A – agree • U – undecided• D – disagree• SD – strongly disagree

Devil’s Advocate

Unfinished sentences

• If I were Rizal, I…..

Conflict Story

• Shall we allow our best teachers, nurses doctors and other professionals to contribute to the brain drain or keep them here to compete for the scarce of job offerings and contribute to unemplyment?