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By Lily Han Language & Culture Instructor FSI hanx@state

Towards Input Enhancement and Skills Integration -----Strategies in SM Design for Post-basic Learners. By Lily Han Language & Culture Instructor FSI hanx@state.gov. SM: Challenges after Excitement. low efficiency: time to design vs. time to use in the classroom;

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By Lily Han Language & Culture Instructor FSI hanx@state

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  1. Towards Input Enhancement and Skills Integration-----Strategies in SM Design for Post-basic Learners By Lily Han Language & Culture Instructor FSI hanx@state.gov

  2. SM: Challenges after Excitement • low efficiency: time to design vs. time to use in the classroom; • lack of clear objectives: why do we need to design, i.e. what is the pedagogical purpose behind this design? • Hard to sustain the interests, esp. for post-basic learners

  3. Two Possible Pedagogical Approaches(to problem b and c) • Input enhancement, i.e.to increase learner's awareness of structures and functions of target language through SM’s multimedia design; • Skillsintegration, i.e. to provide learners with integrated tasks that will use authentic video clips as linguistic input and ask learners to listen, read and then speak in response to a question

  4. Input Enhancement: What We Know • to make language input salient (Sharwood Smith, 1991); • positive input enhancement vs. negative input enhancement; • computer-based or multimedia environment as one of effective ways to serve the purpose

  5. Skills Integration: What We Know • consensus: how skills are involved in the real world; • listening–to-talk or write task has gained popularity due to the development of video technology; • additional analytical skills are practiced, i.e. summarizing and synthesizing

  6. FSI Post-basic Learners: Strength and Weakness • everyday life vocabulary vs. professional terminologies (i.e. politics and economics and trade); • great exposure to news reading vs. little exposure to authentic news listening; • single sentences vs. smooth connections and transitions between sentences and paragraphs in a discourse

  7. Cautions: A Balanced View • different learning styles: multimedia may not work effectively for certain type of learners; • further empirical research needed: is blank-filling the best method to do key terminology/phrases enhancement? • a time-consumingtask to locate and retrieve the right video clips for the valuable input

  8. Final Words • Thanks for watching my show • Please wait to see the next SM design as demonstration…

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