Introduction: Principles of EL Teaching and Learning
Summary
TLDRThis video series explains how English language department heads and teachers can apply the six principles of English language teaching and learning (CLIPS) in curriculum planning, lesson development, and instructional strategies. Mrs. Firdaus Alena Abdullah, Head of the English Department, shares how her team considers student needs and abilities while ensuring a progressive, integrated, and purposeful curriculum. The six principles—contextualization, learning-focused interaction, integration, process orientation, and spiral progression—guide their approach to foster effective language learning, preparing students to meet the 2010 syllabus outcomes.
Takeaways
- 📚 The video series focuses on how English language heads and teachers can apply six principles of English language teaching and learning to curriculum planning, lesson development, and instructional decisions.
- 👩🏫 Mrs. Firdaus Alena Abdullah, head of the English language department, emphasizes leading teachers to make purposeful decisions for teaching English based on students' needs, abilities, and interests.
- 🔄 The school encourages collaboration, allowing teachers to design a customized curriculum that integrates grammar and vocabulary into meaningful learning experiences.
- 🎯 Teachers work together to ensure spiral progression, helping students develop skills systematically from entry to graduation.
- 📖 The six principles of English language teaching and learning are known by the acronym CLIPS: Contextualization, Learning-Focused Interaction, Integration, Process Orientation, and Spiral Progression.
- 🌍 Contextualization involves designing learning experiences around real-life, meaningful contexts to enhance language use and skills development.
- 🗣️ Learning-focused interaction emphasizes collaboration and group work, helping students achieve English language learning outcomes, including grammar, vocabulary, and language skills.
- 🔗 Integration ensures that grammar, vocabulary, and language skills are taught in interconnected ways, avoiding isolated instruction to create purposeful learning experiences.
- 🛠️ Process orientation recognizes that language learning is an ongoing process, requiring scaffolding such as modeling, questioning, and gradually reducing support to foster independence.
- 📈 Spiral progression involves systematically introducing new skills and revisiting topics at increasing levels of complexity to build mastery over time.
Q & A
What is the focus of the video series mentioned in the script?
-The video series focuses on how English language heads of departments and teachers can apply the six principles of English language teaching and learning, as well as the six teaching processes, to plan and develop English-language curriculum and instructional programs.
Who is the speaker featured in this video, and what is her role?
-The speaker is Mrs. Firdaus Alena Abdullah, head of the English Language and Literature Departments at a secondary school. Her role is to guide her teachers in making decisions about what and how to teach English.
How do Mrs. Firdaus and her team make decisions about curriculum planning?
-Mrs. Firdaus and her team base their decisions on the needs, abilities, and interests of their students at each year level, ensuring that the English-language curriculum is tailored to the best interests of the students.
What opportunities are provided to teachers in Mrs. Firdaus's school to support curriculum development?
-The school provides opportunities for teachers to meet in teams to design the English-language curriculum, ensuring that students learn grammar and vocabulary in purposeful ways that support their development of essential language skills.
What is the purpose of ensuring spiral progression in the curriculum?
-The purpose of spiral progression is to introduce new skills and reinforce previous knowledge at a higher degree of sophistication each year, allowing students to master the language over time without repeating the same content.
What are the six principles of English language teaching and learning referred to in the video?
-The six principles are known by the acronym CLIPS: Contextualization, Learning-focused interaction, Integration of skills, Process orientation, and Spiral progression.
How does contextualization play a role in language learning according to Mrs. Firdaus?
-Contextualization involves designing learning experiences around authentic and meaningful contexts, ensuring that students learn and use language skills, grammar, and vocabulary in practical, real-world situations.
How is grammar and vocabulary integrated into the English curriculum?
-Grammar and vocabulary are not taught in isolation; instead, they are integrated with other language skills such as listening, reading, writing, and viewing. This interconnected approach makes learning more purposeful for students.
What does process orientation refer to in the context of language learning?
-Process orientation recognizes that learning happens over time. Teachers scaffold students' language development through modeling, questioning, and prompting before gradually withdrawing support to help students take responsibility for their learning.
What additional support is provided to ensure effective English language teaching in the school?
-Besides curriculum planning based on sound principles, teachers are also mindful of various teaching processes that take place in the classroom. These processes help scaffold students' learning and ensure they become effective users of English.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Applying the Six Principles of English Language Teaching
This paragraph introduces a video series aimed at helping English language heads and teachers apply the six principles of English language teaching and learning (CLIPS) and the six teaching processes. It focuses on how these can be used to plan an English language curriculum, develop lessons, and make teaching decisions. Mrs. Firdaus Alena Abdullah, head of the English language and literature department at a secondary school, explains how these principles guide her in leading her teachers and shaping curriculum decisions to better teach English.
🎓 Customizing Curriculum Based on Student Needs
Mrs. Firdaus highlights the importance of considering the needs, abilities, and interests of students at different year levels when making curriculum decisions. She emphasizes providing teachers with opportunities to work together in designing a purposeful language curriculum that enhances students' learning of grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, viewing, writing, and representing skills. Her leadership in curriculum planning ensures a spiral progression, allowing students to develop their English skills over time, from the moment they join the school until they graduate.
📖 Guiding Principles for Teaching English
The curriculum design is based on the six principles of English language teaching and learning (CLIPS): contextualization, learning-focused interaction, integration, process orientation, and spiral progression. Mrs. Firdaus explains how these principles inform decisions about what, when, and why to teach, aiming for quality teaching and learning. These principles are applied at both the departmental and classroom levels to design instructional programs, ensuring that lessons are both meaningful and effective.
🔄 The Six Principles of CLIPS Explained
This section provides a breakdown of the CLIPS principles. Contextualization involves designing learning experiences around authentic contexts to enhance grammar and vocabulary acquisition. Learning-focused interaction encourages collaboration during group work to achieve learning outcomes. Integration connects different language skills such as grammar, reading, writing, and listening. Process orientation recognizes that learning occurs over time, requiring scaffolding through modeling and questioning. Spiral progression ensures that skills and concepts are revisited and reinforced at increasingly sophisticated levels over the school years.
🌀 Spiral Progression and Mastery Over Time
Mrs. Firdaus explains the importance of avoiding repetitive teaching and instead introducing new skills and grammatical items progressively. The curriculum is designed to revisit and reinforce previously taught concepts at a higher level of difficulty each year, helping students master English over time. She emphasizes the need to base the curriculum on sound CLIPS principles, which is essential but not sufficient for student development. Foundational teaching processes must also be applied to ensure students become effective English users.
🎥 Preview of Upcoming Videos in the Series
The video concludes with a preview of the remaining three videos in the series. These videos will feature two teachers discussing how they apply the CLIPS principles in their classrooms to scaffold student learning. The focus will be on practical applications in secondary express and normal technical classrooms. Teachers will share how they use these strategies thoughtfully and flexibly to support students in achieving their learning goals in English.
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Keywords
💡Six Principles of English Language Teaching and Learning
💡CLIPS
💡Contextualization
💡Learning-focused Interaction
💡Integration
💡Process Orientation
💡Spiral Progression
💡Curriculum Planning
💡Differentiation
💡Scaffolding
Highlights
Introduction to the six principles of English language teaching and learning and how they are applied in curriculum planning and classroom instruction.
Mrs. Firdaus Alena Abdullah, head of the English Language and Literature departments, discusses leading her teachers in making decisions about teaching English.
Teachers consider the needs, abilities, and interests of students across school years to make purposeful decisions in customizing the English curriculum.
Collaborative team planning ensures the curriculum supports grammar and vocabulary development, alongside listening, reading, viewing, writing, and representing skills.
Spiral progression is emphasized in the curriculum planning process, ensuring a systematic introduction of new skills and reinforcing previous lessons over time.
Application of the 'CLIPS' framework, which includes six principles: Contextualization, Learning-focused interaction, Integration, Process orientation, and Spiral progression.
Contextualization involves designing learning experiences around authentic and meaningful contexts to ensure language learning is connected to real-world use.
Learning-focused interaction: Group work and collaboration are structured to help students achieve English language learning outcomes through active interaction.
Integration: Skills such as grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, and viewing are not taught in isolation but integrated for more purposeful learning.
Process orientation: Recognizing that learning is a process over time, with scaffolding to support students' gradual independence in language learning.
Spiral progression: Curriculum is designed to build upon previously taught skills, increasing in complexity and sophistication to ensure mastery.
The focus on differentiation in the classroom ensures that the teaching methods cater to individual student needs and abilities.
The importance of sound teaching processes to complement curriculum design for developing effective English language users.
The six principles (CLIPS) are applied at both the departmental and classroom levels to enhance teaching quality and learning outcomes.
Future videos in the series will explore how teachers apply the principles in secondary classrooms and scaffold students’ English learning.
Transcripts
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this is a video series on how English
language heads of departments and
teachers can apply the six principles of
English language teaching and learning
and the six teaching processes in
planning their schools english-language
curriculum developing lessons and
materials and making decisions about how
to teach English in this first video
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English language and literature
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