Slide 1 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 1 Teaching and learning global English using social media and social interaction
Contents : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 2 Contents What is English Out There (EOT)
How it works
What it looks like
What the English speakers do
Useful links
Slide 3 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 3 What is EOT
Slide 4 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 4 What is EOT? Highly effective series of modular English courses:
800 hours, 6 levels, beginner to advanced (CEF)
60 hours approx. per level
illustrated student worksheets
digital and print, audio (MP3)
translated into 5 languages
Three styles: Self-study/Teacher 1:1/Teacher Group
covers all skills
focused on speaking and listening i.e. where students need most practice
perfect complement to any core course or curriculum
step-by-step student, teacher and tutor instructions
USP – Social media : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 5 USP – Social media EOT is the world’s first social media English course
Works with all online social media platforms and free web telephony
Every lesson involves integrated and structured listening/speaking practice with fluent and native-English speaking practice partners using social media
Why was EOT created? : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 6 Why was EOT created? To improve on what existed
To make language learning much more memorable
To facilitate focused real practice
To socialize the learning experience
To boost confidence, fluency and motivation fast
To combat the fear of speaking
How was EOT created? : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 7 How was EOT created? Lateral thinking
“Why can’t students speak after years of teaching?”
“Why do many learners’ minds go blank just before they try to speak?”
“How do we make it real and more relevant to the core aim, communication?”
Research
Psycholinguistics (e.g. Skehan, Krashen, Vygotski, Pinker, Ellis, Kuhl, Proulx & Heine)
Real feedback from students and teachers
teach, adjust, teach, adjust...
Slide 8 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 8 What method is it based on? EOT is based upon the Communicative Method (used by most language courses in the world), but it uses a redesigned lesson plan format that is used in every single session.
This new format means that real practice of the target language happens minutes after the language has been studied.
The course includes elements of psycholinguistic research and the application of practical memory enhancing techniques that lead to improved ‘memory mapping’.
All of this helps learners to remember the target language better and to feel much more confident.
Slide 9 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 9 How research-based
EOT works
Slide 10 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 10 Links that create understanding and help recall. i.e. “This new language…”
· ” is similar to…”
· ” is related to…”
· “is because….” EOT language focus i.e. language studied Existing language + Out There Task for the session + the real experience of what was actually said and understood. What is Constructivism and how does it relate to EOT? Original source: www.geoffpetty.com or in Mujis, D. & Reynolds, D. (2001) Sounds, images, emotions and context.
The Learning Pyramid: The recall rate of different teaching strategies. The National Training Laboratories (US) : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 11 The Learning Pyramid: The recall rate of different teaching strategies. The National Training Laboratories (US) Source: www.geoffpetty.com or in Mujis, D. & Reynolds, D. (2001)
Latest research into 'social learning‘ : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 12 Latest research into 'social learning‘ Dr. Patricia Kuhl (Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington) 'a new view of language acquisition‘ which was followed by 'Neural substrates of language acquisition‘ (Kuhl & Rivera-Gaxiola 2008) "Which causal mechanisms underlie the critical period for second language acquisition - why are adults, with their superior cognitive skills, unable to learn as well as young infants? Can techniques be developed to help adults learn a second language?”
Latest research into ‘implicit learning‘ : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 13 Latest research into ‘implicit learning‘ Proulx & Heine - 2009 'Exposure to Meaning Threats* Improves Implicit Learning of an Artifical Grammar (Connections from Kafka)' (click) “Priming motivational states has been found to improve performance on implicit-learning tasks.”
“..the cognitive mechanisms responsible for implicitly-learning novel patterns of association are enhanced by the presence of a meaning threat.” * Trying to communicate in a second language involves naturally occurring meaning threats
Slide 14 : 14 EOT is both a pedagogic and a psychological process…It proves that good preparation before socialization quickly helps learners to speak
with more confidence
and fluency ‘Bonjour, deux baguettes, s’il vous plait’
Or ‘Doh!’ (i.e. no sound or slow, faltering and hesitant speech) "Monitor "overusers" are performers who feel they must "know the rule" for everything and do not entirely trust their feel for grammaticality in the second language. One case, "S", described by Stafford and Covitt (1978), remarked: "I feel bad... when I put words together and I don't know nothing about the grammar." In Stevicks terms (Stevick, 1976, p. 78), overusers may suffer from "lathophobic aphasia", an "unwillingness to speak for fear of making a mistake"."Stephen Krashen Yerkes-Dodson law (first observed by Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson, The Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation (1908) Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology,18, 459-482) EOT © Languages Out There Ltd
Slide 15 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 15 Does it work? 1 day = a 3 hour lesson
1 week = 15 hours
Sample size 726
Age of clients: 14-65
Nationalities: 35
Slide 16 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 16 Regular feedback comments about EOT:
“not boring”, “exciting”, “helps me to memorise”, “it helps me to speak after class”, “real English”. First independent review:
“These materials have an extra dimension …the Out There tasks encourage students to speak with others, either face to face in a public venue or using VoIP technology such as Skype in order to speak with a partner or small group.
There are many things that I like about these well-structured worksheets. There are a mixture of activities, such as work-definition matches, sentence gap-fills and picture descriptions which get the students practicing the target language.
Vocabulary expansion and speaking skills are core components of this course which I think would be very useful to many students.
The topic areas covered are interesting and relevant, introducing everyday language and colloquial and idiomatic expressions to students. The thematic worksheets include a wide range of topics including travel, music, technology, beauty, fears and idioms/slang...”
(TEFL.net, October 2009)
http://tefl.net/reviews/english-out-there
The EOT course : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 17 The EOT course Highly flexible – three styles
TD (group taught), SS (self-study) and new OO (1:1) style lesson plans
Real world or online use, or a combination
Allows learners to get focused real practice of language studied
Works in different ways at different levels:
Beginner – increases confidence and helps ‘survival’
Advanced – very high level language + real ‘street’ vocabulary
Six levels
60 hours per level
3 hours (approx. per learner session)
50% input, 25% activity, 25% result
Tried and tested and now ready to market
6 years of teaching, 2 of editing, 250,000 contact hours, 85,000 lessons
Stage 1- Input : 18 Stage 1- Input Classroom,
Virtual classroom,
Self study
Grammar
Vocabulary
Skills
Controlled practice
Slide 19 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 19 Use language just learnt by talking to people on the telephone, online or on the street
Enjoyable, exciting and memorable learning experience
Real focused practice of listening, speaking, reading and writing Stage 2 - Speak
Slide 20 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 20 Focused conversation becomes free conversation
New language and vocabulary are heard and explained
Correction happens naturally
Personal contextualization of the learning experience makes it much more memorable
Social learning ‘buzz’ Stage 3 - Result
Slide 21 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 21 What EOT looks like
Slide 22 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 22 Meet the family
Slide 23 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 23 I do some self-study or a teacher guides me through the EOT materials.. ..then she talks to me on the telephone, online or in the street. We start by using the language from the lesson.
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Slide 25 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 25 Clear instructions for both teachers and learners Six levels:
1.Beginner (A1)
2.Elementary (A2)
3.Pre-intermediate (B1)
4.Intermediate (B2)
5.Upper-intermediate (C1)
6.Advanced (C2)
Slide 26 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 26 Student worksheets 20 lessons per level
Each input session lasts approximately 1.5-2.5hrs*
Unlimited speaking time * self-study and 1:1, depending upon the individual
Slide 27 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 27 Out There Task Gives you a way to start talking
Uses the language in the lesson
Speak for as long as you like with as many people as you want – on the phone, online or on the street
Let the conversation take its own course
Have fun and connect socially
What makes EOT so different from other courses? : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 28 What makes EOT so different from other courses? Integrates structured listening and speaking practice using social media (USP)
Motivates and boosts confidence, lowering the student’s anxiety level and creating a ‘buzz of success’
‘Passive knowledge becomes active knowledge’ – Belgrade Univ. ELT students
Quickly improves speaking and listening skills
Totally flexible - works in all social and technological environments
Global English – hear modern language use from fluent English speakers of all backgrounds
Tried and tested over 250,000 hours
Lots of fun and never ever boring
Slide 29 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 29 How does the social media practice in EOT work?
Slide 30 : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 30 Simple steps to creating a Personal Learning Network Join an international social network and make some online friends
Contact them using the words “Hi, I am doing English Out There can I practise with you, it will only take a few minutes each time”, in the text chat system and using the special pre-written EOT message
Make as many English speaking friends as you can, preferably in different time zones and with different accents
The more practice partners you have the more likely you will be able to practice 24/7 and be able to hear global English
Do the lesson and prepare the Out There Task questions
See who is online and text them to see if they can talk
Call those who say ‘yes’ and use the language from the lesson to break the ice and get going
EOT tools : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 31 EOT tools
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Current file formats
PDF, MP3, print
Environments where EOT can currently be used
real classroom, virtual classroom
free web telephony (Skype), PSTN telephone (landline)
free online social media (Facebook), face-to-face social interaction (street)
virtual worlds (Second Life)
Future file formats
XML, SCORM, SWF and so on...
Ebook
Future environments where it will be utilised
any and all
we have plans that we prefer not to divulge at the moment Future proof
The last word…from a student… : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 33 The last word…from a student… “I’ve never thought that I would enjoy this school this much. I think everyone must try something like that once in a lifetime, it is just not good for your English, it is also good for your entire life.”
Arda Ozdemir, Turkey. www.languagesoutthere.com
Useful links: : EOT is a copyrighted Languages Out There product 34 Useful links: Listen to some students doing some EOT by phone in these case studies:
http://languagesoutthere.podomatic.com/
Watch some video presentations about EOT, video newsletters and meet some learners:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LanguagesOutThere
http://www.facebook.com/EnglishOutThere
Using EOT materials to guide learners in a virtual classroom:
http://www.wiziq.com/English-Out-There-Intermediate-lesson-3
Real world social learning using EOT materials:
http://www.meetup.com/English-Out-There-London-English-conversation/
Download a free EOT ebook endorsed by Professor Steven Pinker:
http://www.scribd.com/For-Want-of-a-Better-Word-endorsed-by-Steven-Pinker-
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