Participatory Planning and Emerging Language Workshop

English for Action (EFA London) runs free participatory ESOL classes in community locations across London, reaching about 400 students a week.Our courses are taught in a participatory style and we take action with our students outside the classroom.We were involved in ActionAid's Reflect ESOL project and are committed to sharing participatory tools and our evolving best practice with the wider ESOL community.As well as providing trainings to organisations across the UK, we also publish research on participatory ESOL. More information about our training is available here:http://efalondon.org/get-involved/train

English For Action (EFA London)

This online introductory 2-part workshop will guide participants to plan participatory ESOL sessions and teach language as it emerges.

This workshop consists of 2 ONLINE sessions: <ul><li>PART I on Thursday 1st December 2022, 4-7pm GMT</li></ul><ul><li>PART II on Thursday 8th December 2022, 4-7pm GMT</li></ul>This introductory 2-part workshop guides participants to plan and develop a series of interconnected, participatory ESOL sessions and helps participants to teach language as it emerges rather than through fixed, pre-planned schemes of work.Participants will be introduced to our three stage framework ‘Making Meaning’, ‘Going Deeper’, ‘Broadening Out’ which helps to provide structure for participatory language work. The workshop will take participants through each of the three stages, clearly explaining the purpose of each stage and demonstrating the use of a range of tools and activities which allow the content of the course to emerge and develop from session to session. This workshop will also help participants to teach language as it emerges rather than through fixed, pre-planned schemes of work. Participatory ESOL provides a language development model which replaces the target language approach to teaching language. Instead, we approach language learners as language ‘knowers’ with an already established linguistic repertoire. This focus takes into consideration all the linguistic skills students bring to class, not just their competence in English. The emerging language curriculum begins by engaging students in discussions about things that are interesting and relevant to them. We begin therefore with students’ own language rather than any language teaching point. In the workshop we will demonstrate how this approach gives time to observe and analyse the language students are comfortable using, as well as aspects which need more practice or some development work. The first step in an emerging language curriculum is listening and observing and in this workshop we will explore the tools to help us do this. Following this observation, we will explore activities to develop and extend language knowledge and skills. This might be vocabulary, managing discourse, language structure, pronunciation and issues of power in communication. There will be time in the workshop to design practice activities both ‘on the hoof’ and for use in subsequent lessons. We will also look at how to effectively incorporate traditional language practice activities within the emerging curriculum.For more information please contact training@efalondon.org.

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