Faculty of Educations

Onion Fraser University

TEACHING A NATIVE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

Instructors: Dr. Kelleen Toohey/Dwight Gardiner

Location: Kamloops, B.C.

This program is intended to help teachers of Native languages find individual ways

to improve their teaching. Participants will learn techniques for assessing and

increasing the motivation of their students, for planning lessons using a variety of

teaching strategies and structures, for grouping students and for making attractive

and effective language teaching materials.

The following topics will be considered:

Making contact with language learners, motivation, the psychology of language

learning

How to increase your students' motivation

Dialogues, classroom language and 'immersion'

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The question of language skills; which/when/how

Realistic goals

More oral techniques, games and puppets

Lesson planning - techniques for what to include

Culture in language teaching

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Unit

planning.

Examining and evaluating

prepared materials

Evaluation - of teaching and learning

Creating- classroom tests

Adapting and making reading materials

A Native language program in the community - support systems

Plans for the future. Creating individual goals for improving language teaching -

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. The program will begin with a week-long session from July 20-24, where students

will consider theoretical and practical aspects of teaching a Native language. This

will be followed by a week-long session from August 17-21

concerning

literacy...

aspects. of Native language teaching. Students who wish to take this program for

credit (as a Directed Study course) will register for Fall 1987. In September, October

and November, one-day sessions will be held (at three school sites) so that

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participants will be able to observe each other and then hold work sessions

immediately afterward.

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