The MFL Learning Journey: from Modelling to Fluency

The MFL Learning Journey: From Modelling to Fluency

START

How good is your short term memory?

Input

Intake

3/5 items in second language

OutputFLUENCY

Your memory and the forgetting curve

Taken From: Memory, what every Language Teacher should know

Why is speaking important?

to Motivation

STRUCTUREDPRODUCTION

FLUENCY

The Learning journey:PURPOSEFLUENCY

CREATIVITYEXPANSION

MODELLING

MODELLING

INTERLEAVING

STRUCTURED PRACTICE

CREATIVITY

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

FLUENCY

Working towards FLUENCY

MODELLING: CREATING FOUNDATIONS FOR FLUENCY

TIP: exploit thetextbook audiofiles!

USING LISTENING/READING FOR LEARNING

4. High Five Game

5. Listening, Reading Battleships

1. Sentence Builders

6. Read my mind!

2. Dictations

7. Reading for learning

3. Bad Listening

8. Beat the teacher

9. Rock Climbing

10. Translating listening activities

Tech

1. Board Games

7. High Five!

2. Jenga Game

STRUCTURED PRACTICE: Scaffolded support

3. Translating Pyramids

4. Dictogloss in pairs

INTERLEAVING

5. Information Gap Activities

6. Battleships

RETRIEVAL

Tech

CREativity: starting to manipulate the language!

4. Starting to do Grammar

Tip: before attempting these tasks, practise creative answers with MWBs

STICKABILITY

Board games

Connect 4, 3 in a row

Genially

Snakes and Ladders

Piñata game

Jumanlly

RELATEDNESS

All Activities from Creativity/ structured production with time!

1. Speed dating

2. Wheel of names

3. Spider Game

4. Board Games but with TIME

fLUENCY: 3 2 1

7. Flippity with Questions and TIME

5. High Five and TIME

6. Flippity : Random Picker with TIME

8. Oral/ written creative tasks via Padlet

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