1. Pre-School Analysis
English Area
Pre-School
2012

2. Assessment System
• Pre-Assessment
• LSRW
• Observations while students
work on activities and solve
problems with peers.
• Observer takes notes and
records student´s
performance on how language
is used to communicate.
• Two domains of language
• Comprehension LR
• Production SW
• Language Proficiency
• Language Acquisition

3. Adjustments
• CEF
• Needs Analysis
– Target
– Learning
• TESOL Standards
• Comprehensible Input LR Output SW

4. Needs Analysis
Herbolich
Target Needs Learning Needs
Objective Subjective How are we going to get from starting
Neccessities HW, CW, Destination point to destination?
text, IBO 1. New to student
Lacks Social Skills Starting 2. Related to student
Study habits point 3. Attainment of new lexis
Motivation 4. Would it operate
5. Enjoyable and test
?
Wants

5. TESOL Standards
• Goal 1, Standard 1
– To use English to communicate in social settings: Students will use English
to participate in social interactions
• Goal 2, Standard 1
– To use English to achieve academically in all content areas: Students will
use English to interact in the classroom
• Goal 3, Standard 2
– To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways: Students will use
nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting
• Goal 3, Standard 3
– To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways: Students will use
appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and socio-
cultural competence

6. Language Acquisition vs
Language Learning
Teacher LL Student LA
• Grammar rules • Oral “natural” communication
for teachers – Classroom talk
proficiency – Teacher talk
• Not – Play talk
communicative • Pre-reading
• Direct • Vocabulary
instruction • Pre-Writing
• Talk about • Grammar at this age students are
knowledge vs unaware of rules
communication

7. Cognitive Science
Language Acquisition
• Modularity
– "mental organ,” (Chomsky, 1975,
1991; Fodor, 1983)
• Human Uniqueness
– Combinatorial rule system
• Language and Thought
– Learning to think. Cognitive
psychology has shown that people
think not just in words but in images.
• Learning and Innateness
– The sensorimotor abilities
– Laws of learning organism's
behavioral repertoire.

8. Finland’s success school reform
• T-L system
• Well designed and
connected
• Well-prepared teachers
• High quality curriculum
• Materials and
assessments
• The system as a whole
learn and improve.

9. Strategies
• Systematic methods
• Autonomy
• Thinking curriculum
• Cooperative learning
• Would you be able to
learn Japanese by
sitting in a Japanese
classroom?

10. Learners
• Task- based learners
• Phantom learner
• Social learner
• Dependent learner
• Isolated learner

11. Reflexión
• Metodología
– Whole Language
– Communicative Approach
• Calificaciones vs Aprendizaje
• Motores fríos
• Leche con chocolate

12. Tips
• Preguntemos
– ¿Cómo fue la explicación?
– ¿Qué pasó?
– ¿Cómo lo harías tu?
• Afirmaciones
– “Quiero que …”
– “Es importante que …”