The Professional Development Consortium- Eight Teaching and Learning Principles in MFL

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Which workshop did you attend? *

13 June 2012- The Willink School, Reading

19 June 2012- London Metropolitan University

26 June 2012- Department of Education, Oxford University

29 June 2012- Great Wyrley Performing Arts High School, Walsall

3 July 2012- Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, London

12 July 2012- Bradley Stoke Community School, Bristol

28 September 2012- University of Nottingham

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This is purely so that we can match your present answers with those you gave in the previous workshop questionnaires, while maintaining your anonymity. No further use will be made of your date of birth.

The Eight Principles

Please read each statement and select from a scale of 1-5 according to whether you:

1= strongly agree
2= agree
3= have no particular opinion
4= disagree
5= strongly disagree

If you have any comment to make about any statement, please type it in the box underneath each one.

1. Target language input is essential for learning but it can be made more effective if learners are allowed/encouraged to ‘negotiate’ the understanding of it by asking questions of what the teacher is saying or asking the teacher to repeat. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

2. Learners need to be encouraged to speak and to say things that they are not sure are correct. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

3. Although not all oral interaction can be ‘communicative’ (some will be practice and/or form focused), it has to demonstrate nevertheless ‘quality’ (among other things, student length of turn; adequate wait time; cognitive challenge [e.g. by requiring a verb phrase or subordinate clause]; appropriate teacher feedback; nomination rather than elicitation). *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

4. Students need to be given opportunities to develop oral fluency but also taught how to use communication strategies when faced with communication difficulties. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

5. Learners need to be taught how to access a greater range of more challenging spoken and written texts, through explicit instruction in comprehension strategies and decoding. Underpinning both reading and listening skills – and other skills - is the notion that it is important to be able to master the relationship between the written and spoken forms. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

6. Learners need to develop their self-efficacy and general confidence through teaching and feedback approaches that draw their attention to the link between the way they approach solving language learning challenges and the task outcome. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

7. Writing should be developed as a skill in its own right not as a consolidation of other language skills. For this to happen students should frequently write using their own resources rather than resources provided by the teacher. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

8. The principal focus of pedagogy should be on developing language skills and therefore the teaching of linguistic knowledge (knowledge of grammar and vocabulary) should act in the service of skill development not as an end in itself. *

strongly agree

strongly disagree

Comment

To what extent have you been able to implement the above principles into your work with learners? *

Please tick:

not at all

a little

quite a lot

a lot

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If you have answered 'a little', 'quite a lot', or 'a lot' to the previous question, please specify what form this implementation has taken:

Discussed principles with my department/colleagues

yes

Clear selection

Worked with all the principles (1-8)

yes

Clear selection

Worked with all four oral interaction principles (1-4)

yes

Clear selection

Worked with the reading and listening principle (5)

yes

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Worked with the writing principle (7)

yes

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Worked with the feedback principle (6)

yes

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Finally, we would like to carry out brief telephone interviews with a small sample of workshop participants to find out a little more about what impact the workshops have had on them. If you would be willing to be interviewed in this way, please provide us with an email address and we will contact a sample of volunteers to arrange a suitable time to talk:

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