Interlanguage (Selinker), instructional design (Thorndike), communicative competence (Swain). Additional links: http://bitly.com/bundles/whyshona/5

1. SLA for FL teaching
3 key ideas about language learning & teaching

2. Interlanguage
development
•each learner
reinvents their own
mental grammar of
the new language
interlanguage:
not my first language
(L1)
not my second
language (L2)
a different, idiosyncratic
representation of L2
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

3. each learner reinvents their own mental grammar of the
new language
• subconscious learning (acquisition)
• innate developmental patterns
• differential progress
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

4. if learning occurs subconsciously, teachers should reduce
• grammar-translation
• error correction
• whole-class, lockstep teaching
X
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

5. if learning occurs subconsciously, teachers should provide
• comprehensible input
• opportunities for output
• focus on form (reflection on grammar)
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

6. •input
•output
•reflection
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

7. Learning Technology
“If, by a miracle of mechanical
ingenuity, a book could be so
arranged that only to him who had
done what was directed on page one
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

8. “... would page two become visible,
and so on, much that now requires
personal instruction could be
managed by print.”
(Thorndike, 1923)
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

9. Edward Thorndike
design instructionnel
DESIGN
INSTRUCTIONNEL
1923
“Si, par un miracle
d’intelligence mécanique,
un livre pouvait être
agencé de telle manière
que seul celui qui fait ce
qui lui est demandé sur la
première page . . .
Enseignement des langues Compétences de l’enseignant La formation des enseignants

10. Edward Thorndike
design instructionnel
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
1923
“... aura accès à la page
suivante, et ainsi de suite,
une bonne partie de ce que
fait aujourd’hui
l’enseignant pourrait être
gérée par écrit.”
•décentrage de la classe
•l’autonomie de l’apprenant
•enrichir et étendre l’apprentissage
avec les TICE
Enseignement des langues Compétences de l’enseignant La formation des enseignants

11. Language use
•communicative
competence
•scaffolding
•task-based learning
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

12. Communicative competence
not just linguistic knowledge
(vocabulary, grammar)
ability to use language
in real time; spontaneously
appropriately
in a meaningful context
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

13. scaffolding
PROBLEM: learners need
language support
(pronunciation, vocabulary,
grammar) for
communicative activities
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

14. feedback
PROBLEM: it is difficult to
provide useful feedback to
numerous groups of
learners
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

15. Interaction/communication
TASK-BASED LEARNING
•pre-task, tasks, reflection
•internet communication: mail, forums, social
media
•class exchanges: tandem/twinning projects,
videoconferencing
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

16. and so?
interlanguage development
input, interaction, reflection
learning technology to foster learner autonomy
communication and task-based learning
interlanguage
development
learning technology
communicative
competence

17. Further reading on
interlanguage
instructional design
communicative competence
http://bitly.com/bundles/whyshona/5