1. Pre-School Analysis
English Area
Pre-School
2012

2. Assessment System
• Pre-Assessment
• LSRW
• Observations while students
work on activities and solve
problems with peers.
• Observer takes notes and records
student´s performance on how
language is used to
communicate.
• Two domains of language
• Comprehension (listening and pre-
reading)
• Production (speaking and pre-
writing).
• Language Performance vs
proficiency
• Language Acquisition

3. Adjustments
• CEF
• Needs Analysis
– Target
– Learning
• TESOL Standards
• Comprehensible Input LR Output SW
• Cognitive Science Language Acquisition

4. Language Acquisition vs
Language Learning
Teacher LL Student LA
• Grammar rules • Oral “natural” communication
for teachers – Classroom talk
proficiency – Teacher talk
• Not – Play talk
communicative • Pre-reading
• Direct • Vocabulary
instruction • Pre-Writing
• Talk about • Grammar at this age students are
knowledge vs unaware of rules
communication

5. Cognitive Science
Language Acquisition
• Modularity
– "mental organ,” (Chomsky, 1975,
1991; Fodor, 1983)
• Human Uniqueness
– Combinatorial rule system
• Language and Thought
– Learning to think. Cognitive
psychology has shown that people
think not just in words but in images.
• Learning and Innateness
– The sensorimotor abilities
– Laws of learning organism's
behavioral repertoire.

6. Finland’s success school reform
• T-L system
• Well designed and
connected
• Well-prepared teachers
• High quality curriculum
• Materials and
assessments
• The system as a whole
learn and improve.

7. Strategies
• Systematic methods
• Autonomy
• Thinking curriculum
• Core principles:
– Resources for those who
need them most
– High standards and support
for special needs
– Qualified teachers
– Evaluation of education

8. Learners
• Task- based learners
• Phantom learner
• Social learner
• Dependent learner
• Isolated learner

9. Competencia de interacción
• Conocer la etiqueta de la
interacción de la clase.
• Conocer las reglas para los
trabajos individuales y
colaborativos
• Conocer cuando preguntar y
contestar una pregunta
• Conocer cómo y cuándo recibir
asistencia o retroalimentación al
completar una actividad
• Conocer las reglas apropiadas
para presentar su conocimiento

10. Reflexión
• Metodología
– Whole Language
– Communicative Approach
• Calificaciones vs Aprendizaje
• Motores fríos
• Leche con chocolate

11. Tips
• Preguntemos
– ¿Cómo fue la explicación?
– ¿Qué pasó?
– ¿Cómo lo harías tu?
• Afirmaciones
– “Quiero que …”
– “Es importante que …”