Matching Materials with What We Know About L2

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Matching Materials with What We Know About L2 Acquisition Brian Tomlinson Are language coursebooks typically successful in facilitating language acquisition? In my experience: NO Why not? There are many reasons but one is undoubtedly: They don’t typically match what we know facilitates language acquisition. (See Tomlinson 2012, 2013a, 2013b, forthcoming 2015) Why don’t they typically match what we know facilitates language acquisition? Practise and Pass Preliminary for Schools focuses on exam preparation in a fun and interesting way, providing students with the necessary exam skills together with a wide-ranging revision of the essential vocabulary and grammatical structures required at this level. STEP3 Pass! Read the text and questions below. For each question, circle the correct letter A, B, C or D. A couple of months ago, I went on a school trip to South Wales. My History teacher led the trip since he said it was time we got out of the classroom and saw some living history! The trip took place over a weekend but I didn’t mind that. It was a chance to get out of the city and see a bit of the countryside,… 1 What is Jerome Benson’s aim in this text? A to encourage more people to take up the study of history B to describe the importance of visiting historical sites C to give advice about interesting places to go on school trips D to persuade other teachers to organise similar trips A coursebook which matches principles of language acquisition would not: achieve face validity sell What do we know about language acquisition? Pre-Requisites for Language Acquisition 1 That the learners are exposed to an input of language in use which is: rich recycled meaningful comprehensible Pre-Requisites for Language Acquisition 2 That the learners are affectively engaged. Pre-Requisites for Language Acquisition 3 That the learners are cognitively engaged. Pre-Requisites for Language Acquisition 4 That the learners are sometimes helped to pay attention to form whilst or after focusing on meaning. Pre-Requisites for Language Acquisition 5 That the learners are given plentiful opportunities to use the language for communication. Conclusion We need to adapt, supplement and develop materials so that they match as closely as possible what we know facilitates language acquisition. The best way to do this is not PPP but T T T Teacher Texts Tasks