Spotting teachable moments with emergent language | TEFL webinar | ELT Masterclass
In a lesson, while talking to their classmates, one of your learners says something really meaningful but inaccurately. Another says something which is really well-phrased and which would be useful to the other students. How do you feel about these two examples of language use and how could you use them to the benefit of these two students and to their peers?
Presented by Neil Harris – Teacher Trainer & Director of Marketing@CELT Language School.
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Introduction:
Since the publication of Richard Chinn and Danny Norrington-Davies’ book Working with Emergent Language earlier in 2023, the term emergent language has become something of a buzzword or buzz phrase in ELT.
For some, the idea of helping students to reformulate their language is nothing new, particularly in the field of one-to-one business and ESP training. For others, emergent language is an exciting opportunity to move away from form-focused target language production and on error correction to a meaning-focused approach to classroom-based language development.
In this context, the role of the teacher changes to become more of a facilitator, encouraging students to express meaning and sharing success among the learners when it goes well and encouraging reformulation when the language produced needs adjustment.
This masterclass contrasts emergent language with target language, provides a rationale for emergent language and then looks at different ways of working with it. It then offers three classroom contexts for busy teachers to try out emergent language in our festive gift to our masterclass participants.
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