Teaching English Language Skills in the Upper Secondary School: The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors

INSEGNARE E APPRENDERE LE LINGUE STRANIERE

Nell’ambito delle attività promosse da IPRASE per lo sviluppo professionale continuo del docente, il progetto “Insegnare e Apprendere le Lingue Straniere” propone azioni di formazione e ricerca per l'aggiornamento e lo sviluppo delle competenze metodologico-didattiche dei docenti di lingua straniera con l’obiettivo di promuovere l’innovazione dei processi di insegnamento/apprendimento delle lingue straniere e favorire l’acquisizione delle abilità e delle competenze linguistiche degli studenti di ogni ordine e grado di scuola. Il progetto realizza: iniziative dedicate alla metodologia della didattica delle lingue inglese, tedesco, francese, spagnolo; iniziative di carattere trasversale per l’insegnamento delle lingue straniere insegnate nelle istituzioni scolastiche e formative provinciali; iniziative per l’insegnamento/apprendimento integrato di lingua straniera (inglese o tedesco) e contenuto accademico (CLIL).

Teaching English Language Skills in the Upper Secondary School: The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors - Moving from a ‘four skills model’ to an ‘action-oriented approach’ (Reception, Production, Interaction, Mediation)

In this series of webinars key aspects of the implications for learning, teaching and assessment from the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/CV) will be explored. The course will seek to provide a framework and suggestions for classroom activities that will facilitate the shift from the ‘four skills model’ to the ‘action-oriented approach’

The three webinars are based on the CEFR Companion Volume with Revised Descriptors and the new CEFR illustrative descriptor scales contained within. Practical suggestions will be made on how to make the change from the ‘four skills model’ of a learner as an individual speaker/hearer, to the user/learner as a social agent who constructs meaning and concepts in interaction and mediation as portrayed in the ‘action-oriented approach’.

I Webinar: Introduction

Introducing key aspects of the implications for learning, teaching and assessment presented in the CEFR/CV

II Webinar: Classroom activities

Leading teachers in classroom activities, which will provide an insight into the New Descriptors required to deliver successful action-oriented learning experiences.

III Webinar: Skills needed for life

Illustrating how the new CEFR illustrative descriptor scales can promote the skills needed for life in the twenty-first century through communicative and action-oriented teaching and learning experiences.

A dedicated padelt for sharing and reflecting on learning activities will be made available to participants throughout the webinars.

Teacher Trainer Manuela Kelly Calzini

Manuela Kelly Calzini is lecturer at the University of Florence (Primary Education Sciences). She is currently Senior Academic at Trinity College London in Italy where she is developing, piloting and evauating projects for the Italian territory. Manuela is author of text books published by Zanichelli Editore and Black Cat, and regularly contributes articles in teacher publications. She has presented at many conferences and workshops throughout Italy, the UK and Switzerland, and is currently working with the Hands Up Project leading Classroom Action Research in Palestine with a group of international teachers.

Her areas of special interest in ELT include Teacher Training & Development, Vertical Continuity in Language Learning, Communicative Skills Teaching, Testing & Evaluation, Young Learners and Online Teaching/Learning.

Manuela is an active IATEFL member and a member of the Society for Storytelling.

NB: Le date del Webinar potranno subire variazioni a causa di forza maggiore. Si prega quindi di consultare periodicamente il programma

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