COD 2017 - KP286

Age-appropriate and meaning-based Grammar for Young Learners

Kinder 5 & Primary school heads, coordinators and teachers

1 sessions, start: 22-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 22 February 2017 09:30 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Kinder 5 & Primary school heads, coordinators and teachers
Get participants to:

- understand how to teach grammar to young learners whose analytical skills are not yet fully developed.
- understand how to contextualize grammar
- explore how to teach grammar inductively.
- plan effective questions for a language focus stage in the lesson.
- plan communicative tasks and meaningful opportunities for grammar practice.
- Inductive versus Deductive grammar.
- Why Induction with Young Learners.
- Grammar in context.
- Chunks of prefabricated language for effective grammar teaching.
- Meaningful grammar practice activties and tasks.
- Grammar through reading, listening, writing and speaking.
In the session participants will:

- explore concepts
- see other practitioners in action
- analyze cases and examples
- explore age-appropriate materials for effective grammar teaching with YL.
To be specified
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