Madrid, D. y N. McLaren (1995): Didactic Procedures for TEFL. Valladolid: La Calesa (286 pags.) Dep. Legal: VA. 664‑1995, ISBN: 84‑8105‑045‑8.

 

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CONTENTS

 

1. THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM

 

            1.1.  Factors affecting the FL curriculum......................

            1.2.  Curricular stages........................................

            1.3.  Curriculum and syllabus..................................

            1.4.  Product-oriented syllabuses..............................

            1.5.  Process-oriented syllabuses..............................

            1.6.  Analyzing needs and establishing goals...................

            1.7.  General principles for the foreign language curriculum...

            1.8.  A pluridimensional syllabus..............................

            1.9.  Other dimensions of a multidimensional syllabus..........

            1.10. Applying a multidimensional framework....................

            1.11.    Learning tasks (sample unit).............................

            1.12.    Orientations for classroom implementation................

            1.13. Evaluation...............................................

            1.14. Suggested activities.....................................

 

 

 

2. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

 

            2.1       The listening skill.....................................

            2.2       Listening and acting....................................

            2.3       Listening with visuals..................................

            2.4       Listening and reading...................................

            2.5       Processing oral discourse: dialogues....................

            2.6       Listening to sequences..................................

            2.7       Listening and checking accuracy.........................

            2.8       Games for practising listening comprehension............

            2.9       Suggested activities....................................

 

3. SPEAKING

 

            3.1.  The speaking skill.....................................

            3.2.  Acting out.............................................

            3.3.  Asking and answering questions.........................

            3.4.  Playing with language..................................

            3.5.  Giving and following instructions......................

            3.6.  Talking about pictures and charts......................

            3.7.  Problem solving........................................

            3.8.  Reciting and singing...................................

            3.9.  Information gap activities.............................

            3.10. Surveys and interviews.................................

            3.11. Debates and discussions................................

            3.12. Cross cultural activities..............................

            3.13.    Suggested activities...................................

 

 

4. READING                                                                                                                               

 

            4.1.     The skill of reading...................................

            4.2.      Reading and spelling/word-recognition..................

            4.3.      Associating visual and graphic lexical meaning.........

            4.4.      Reading to associate meaning...........................

            4.5.      Relationships within the sentence and between sentences

            4.6.      Understanding explicitly stated information: scanning..

            4.7.      Understanding information in the text not explicitly

                        stated (inferencing)...................................

            4.8.      Reading and language transfer..........................

            4.9.      Reading and understanding conceptual meaning...........

            4.10     Reading and reference skills...........................

            4.11.    Reading and linguistic structure 

            4.12.    Transcoding information to diagrammatic display

            4.13.    Cross-curricular information exchange

            4.14.    Reading as preparation for speaking ("integrated skills")

            4.15.   Types of comprehension questions

            4.16.   Reading games

            4.17.  Activities

 

 

5. WRITING

 

            5.1.  The writing skill......................................

            5.2.  Spelling...............................................

            5.3.  Integrating reading and writing........................

            5.4.  Drills.................................................

            5.5.  Dictation..............................................

            5.6.  Information gap activities.............................

            5.7.  Filling forms..........................................

            5.8.  Games..................................................

            5.9.  Realia.................................................

            5.10. Consolidating grammar..................................

            5.11. Activating vocabulary..................................

            5.12. Guided composition.....................................

            5.13. Summarizing............................................

            5.14. Translating............................................

            5.15. Free composition.......................................

            5.16. Cross curricular activities............................

            5.17. Suggested activities...................................

 

6. LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE: VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PRONUNCIATION

 

            6.1. The scope of linguistic competence

            6.2. Vocabulary

            6.3. The teaching and practice of grammar

            6.4. Phonetics

            6.5. Activities

 

 

7. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND DISCOURSE COMPETENCE

 

            7.1.  Communicative competence...............................

            7.2.  The communicative approach.............................

            7.3.  The notional-functional approach.......................

            7.4.  Sociolinguistic and discourse competence...............

            7.5.  Communicative activities...............................

            7.6.  Discovering and completing missing information.........

            7.7.  Reconstructing stories.................................

            7.8.  Simulating and role playing............................

            7.9.  Finding mistakes and differences.......................

            7.10. Filling in forms.......................................

            7.11. Realia and authentic language..........................

            7.12. Memorizing and reciting................................

            7.13. Reading and interpreting facts.........................

            7.14. Punctuating texts......................................

            7.15. Taking part in contextualized dialogues................

            7.16. Expressing sequence....................................

            7.17. Describing people......................................

            7.18. Transforming texts.....................................

            7.19. Narrating events.......................................

            7.20. Organizing and arranging texts ........................

            7.21. Activities.............................................

 

8. SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS                                                                                            

 

            8.1.      Geographical aspects: physical.........................

            8.2.      Geographical aspects: human ...........................

            8.4.     The people: communal aspects and attitudes.............

            8.5.     Ways of life...........................................

            8.6.     Cultural topics........................................

            8.7.      Sports.................................................

            8.8.      Education..............................................

            8.9.      Public parks and public notices........................

            9.10.    Travel.................................................

            8.11.    Typical festivals .....................................

            8.12.    Social problems........................................

            8.13.    History................................................

            8.14.   Activities.............................................

 

9. ENJOYING ENGLISH

 

            9.1. Songs...................................................

            9.2. Games...................................................

            9.3. Jokes...................................................

            9.4. Crosswords and letter boxes.............................

            9.5. Proverbs................................................

            9.6. Other game-like activities..............................

            9.7. Suggested activities....................................

 

10. EVALUATION

 

            10.1. The nature of language proficiency.....................

            10.2. Evaluating the foreign language curriculum.............

            10.3. The student's self-evaluation..........................

            10.4. Evaluating attitudes and motivation....................

            10.5. Continuous assessment..................................

            10.6. Testing the students' progress.........................

            10.7. Preparing classroom tests..............................