Students will achieve effective use of English through adopting a principled blend of First Language (L1) and Second Language (L2) teaching methods to achieve a balance between:
- A systematic and explicit instruction to build a strong foundation
- A contextualized and holistic approach that will provide a rich language environment for developing language skills, grammar and vocabulary.
Teaching Process
- Raising Awareness
- Motivate learning by varying learning experiences & interesting activities
- Make connections with prior and current knowledge
- Focus attention on attaining learning goals
- Structuring Consolidation
- Revisit and reinforce learning
- Facilitating Assessment of the Language
- Diagnose studentsโ needs, abilities and interests
- Identify learning gaps, and modify or adapt teaching methods to improve learning
- Monitor learning and develop studentsโ own metacognitive awareness
- Provide timely & useful feedback for improvement
- Enabling Application
- Authentic context of use and its modelling
- Collaborative learning with mentors and/or peers
- Guiding Discovery
- Facilitate a learning environment by prompting, posing questions and supporting the process to learn a skill, strategy, process, concept or rule without prior or explicit instruction
- Instructing Explicitly
- Explain and clarify a skill, strategy, process or topic directly & systematically, in contexts of meaningful use.