Lord Grey Academy

@BotonesSalgado

Adopting a Lexicogrammar approach at GCSE

Intrinsic Motivation

Great Teaching with a clear pedagogic foundation & clear structure

Content Knowledge

IndependenceAutonomySelf-Efficacy

To be able to SPEAK

Relatedness= relationships (Games/Purpose)

To experience Success

5 Magical Powers

LET'S BE CLEAR: FLUENCY AND THE ORAL EXAM ARE CORE

Having High Expectations.

Knowing Vocabulary

The expectations of the course: Sharing it with your students. A Holistic approach

ListeningReading Skills

Photocard/Roleplay

Writing Skills

General Conversation

Oral Skills= Fluency is at the core

Sharing expectations from day 1

What can I do to make my students feel clever today?

Motivation = Anchoring in the right challenge = I can do

Anchoring in challenge

Memory, what every Language Teacher should know

How good is your short term memory?

OutputFLUENCY

Lots of processing/repetition tha comes out as

3/5 items in second language

Intake

Input

Your memory and the forgetting curve

Rosenshine

The Learning journey

Think Backwards

SPONTANEITYCREATIVITYFLUENCY

EXPANSION

STRUCTUREDPRODUCTION

MODELLING

22:05

Link your SBs to Quizlet/Memrise courses

We don't teach grammar, then?

Benefits and Tips

Using Sentence Builders

7. Trap Door

11. Chocamos

10. The Buzzer Game

5. Finish the sentence

9. Transcribing listening activities

6. Grammar listening activities

2. Spotting activities

4. Beat the teacher

1. Dictations

LOTS OF MWBS!!!

12. Avatars

Accelerating progress = Confidence= Motivation

3. Bad Listening

8. Listening, Reading Battleships

Websites

Modelling

What examiners say

Creating a LanguageLab in your Classroom

A 7 step approach to tackle Listening

Textbook Listenings

A listening strategy for the Exam

Low Stakes Tests

Receptive and Productive Vocabulary

Focus on HighFrequency words:General Vocabfrom AQA spec

Vocab learning = Vocab sticking

RETRIEVAL

INTERLEAVING

5. Cops and Robbers

7. Chocamos

6. Battleships

8. Flippity

3. Information Gap Activities

Accelerating progress = Confidence= Motivation

2. Jenga Game

1. Board Games

10. LearningApps

4. Dictogloss in pairs

9. Wheel of Names

Structured PracticewithScaffolds

Pop in

More PowerPoint Games

Piñata game

Snakes and Ladders

Connect 4, Dice games, 3 in a row

Board games

Embedding Grammar in the process:An approach

Accelerating progress = Confidence= Motivation

InductiveGrammar

Tip: before attempting these tasks, practise creative answers with MWBs

9. Walkabout Bingo

8. Relay Races

3. Spider Game

7.Flip

Accelerating progress = Confidence= Motivation

5. Board Games but with open ended responses & timed

4. Oral/ written creative tasks via Padlet

6. Flippity : Random Picker

2. Piedra, papel, tijera

1. Speed dating

Fluency1,2,3

RETRIEVALPRACTICE5 POWERS

pRODUCTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

RECEPTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

Structuredpractice

modellingFROM Sbs

EXAMListeningREADINGSKILLS

Fluency/GC QsWRITING

GRammar

Training students for the GCSE EXAM

The metacognition process starts with FEEDBACK to FEEDFORWARD

Fostering independence and Feedforward

Padlet, the digital assistant

Revision strategies

@ BotonesSalgado

Thanks!