The presentation that Lyn and Jo made at the 2009 Primary Languages Show

1. Lynn Erler & Jo Rhys-Jones

2. “ I can’t say the words” “ The letters are all muddled” “ It’s scrambled” “ When they’re on the board, they look like a different word than what you’ve been repeating” “ It doesn’t sound like it’s written” “ A lot of French are pronounced differently to how they’re spelled, just a bit weird they are.”

3. Printed word Sounds of word automaticity PPP – presentation, practice, production Teaching and learning words and phrases in the Foreign Language Classroom in England MEANING Phonology Context, world knowledge Orthography GPC

4. The subject is virtually unable to read visually (un)familiar words aloud, indicative of an impairment of grapheme-phoneme conversion and/or phonemic assembly. This condition is often referred to as ‘phonological dyslexia’. This is reading impairment. Add pronunciation problems and you have speech defects. What do children say and feel about this?

5. happy, not bothered puzzled, worried, angry, embarrassed reading aloud in French? 45.3% 48.4% pronouncing French aloud? 46.6% 48.0% How do you feel when:

6. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

7. ‘ decoding’ French; using English to say French words “ I say the words in my head but it’s an English pronunciation” “ [Anyway] most of the words look a lot like English words, so I’d just pronounce them like English words, just to help me… it would probably make more sense.”

11. Researchers have found evidence in the brain that “learning to speak a new language requires the formation of recognition patterns [in the brain] for the speech sounds specific to the [new] ... language”. Even adults can do it!

14. Rounded lips, mouth quite open, tongue flat P a p a v a à l a g a re. t a ch a t â ge m a qu a tre c a hier a mi l a Ahh!

15. What sound does a cow make with no lips? ou

19. Listen and pass the object when you hear the ‘ou’ sound O3.1 Listen and respond to simple rhymes, stories and songs Identify rhyming words. Perform finger rhymes and sing songs. Join in with storytelling. Identify specific sounds, phonemes and words . Recognise commonly used rhyming sounds. Remember rhyming words. Use gesture or mime to show they understand.

22. chat p ère vert chats La tortue verte ne marche pas vite . J’aime mon chat. verte

24. Some (but not all) learning tasks that involve decoding No significant diff between year groups or across KS3 years – a stable construct Item Like me Not like me When I read French silently I sound out the words in my head 74.6 % 25.4 % When I can’t read a French word easily I sound it out in my head 65.8 % 33.4 % When I see a new word on the board I sound it out in my head 64.8 % 35.2 % When learning vocabulary I say the words in my head as I read them 76.5 % 23.1 % As I’m writing French I say the words in my head 74.7 % 24.3 %

26. ballet chef

28. eu sound ère sound

29. ou au / o eu

34. a, à, â é, ai er, et, ez i, y u o, au, eau, ô ou e, eu è, ère, air, ei oi, oy

35. Les Sons Nasals un, um on, om, (i)on, -ons in, im, ein, eim, ain, aim, (i) en, (o)in an, am, en, em, -ent, -ant, ean

37. Mystery sound cards:

43. B a rb a r a a un ch a t les r a ts! © L.Erler 2005 qui aime

44. Printed word Sounds of word Identifying, knowing, enjoying & loving words and phrases in the Foreign Language MEANING Phonology Context, world knowledge Orthography English GPC FL GPC