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Empower Your Language Learning with ELS: Comprehensive Approach for Effective Communication

Explore how ELS Content-Based Language Teaching by Carol Potter can advance your English skills. With a focus on pathways to employment and social integration, this method caters to student interest and empowers new client groups. Learn from the history of pilot projects led by bilingual tutors and ESL teachers dating back to 2001. Today, this method involves multilingual classes and emphasizes interactive learning practices like small group activities and visual aids. The "Get Your L’s" resource pack further enhances the learning experience, covering essential driving skills in a thematic and sequential manner. Experience improved student relationships, confidence levels, commitment, success rates, and overall English development through this approach. Discover the advantages of content-based learning where language is used for real-life purposes, motivating learners for collaborative, task-based language acquisition leading to successful settlement.

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Empower Your Language Learning with ELS: Comprehensive Approach for Effective Communication

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  1. Get your L’s at ELS Content Based Language Teaching Carol Potter Advanced Skills Lecturer TAFESA English Language Services

  2. Why? • Pathways to employment and social integration • Student interest • Appropriate for new client groups

  3. History Pilot projects • Bilingual tutor and small group (2001) • Class with Interpreter and ESL teacher (2002) Class profile • Bilingual groups of learners • 2 hours a week for 10 weeks • Close involvement of Transport SA

  4. Now • 10 (or 20) x 2 hour sessions • Regular optional module • Taught at every certificate level (1-3) • Multilingual classes with ESL teacher • No interpreter • Less involvement from Transport SA • Teacher support for testing process

  5. Methodology • Speaking, listening, reading and computing • Seating in first language clusters • Emphasis on visual aids: • illustrated books • slides/transparencies • small and large flash cards • realia • diagrams • Interactive learning: • Small group • Whole class • Question/Answer, mime and matching activities

  6. Teaching/Learning materials • Teacher-produced materials • worksheets • booklets • cards • photgraphs • revision quizzes • intersections

  7. The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack • 5 illustrated books • covers content of SA Driver’s Handbook • simple English • thematically arranged • sequential build up of Give Way skills and road signs books • Multiple Choice Question test and Give Way test in each book(with answers)

  8. The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack • Give Way cards • Accompanying A3-sized intersections • Sequentially arranged • Answers on the back

  9. The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack • Multiple Choice Question Cards • Sequentially arranged • Answers on the back

  10. The ‘Get Your L’s’ resource pack • Visual Images • Over 200 coloured images (on CD Rom) • Follow the sequence of the text in each book

  11. Outcomes • Student relationships • Confidence levels • Commitment • Drop out rate • Absences - Catch ups • Punctuality • Homework • Success rates • English development

  12. Advantages of Content-based learning Language used for real-life purposes • Motivated learners • Collaborative, task-based learning • Subconscious language acquisition • Settlement

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