Workshop on Communicative Language Teaching

Workshop

on

Communicative Language Teaching

Organized by

ELT@I Thoothukudi Chapter & ELT@I Ramanathapuram Chapter

in association with

British Council, Chennai &Annammal College of Education

Participants    :           30 English Teachers from Government Schools

Venue             :           Annammal College of Education

Date                :           17.07.2017 and 18.7.2017

Time               :           9:30a.m. to 4:30p.m

The two days intensive Training Programme on Communicative Language Teaching was organised at Annammal College of Education for 30 government school English teachers.  This training programme was supported by the British Council, Chennai and organized by ELT@I Thoothukudi chapter. 

Ms.AshaShoba catered exclusively to the needs of theEnglish teaching community with her amazing skill of an efficient trainer.

On the inspiring initial day, 17.7.17, Monday, the campaign was inaugurated with a welcome address by the Principal of Annammal College of Education. It was followed by an introduction to the trainer. Then, the session was handed over to the instructor.The inspiring touch was that the required topics for discussion were elicited from the participants itself. They were ; creating interest, good handwriting, mother tongue influence, grammar, pronunciation, creating an English atmosphere, spelling, games/activities, reading skill, level variations and speaking.

              Each teacher was made to create a self estimate of himself/herself  and share that with each and everyone.Soon, the participants were grouped in fives and a demo lesson with  the theme - `clothing’ was presented vividly.It was demonstrated with a fascinating variety of activities as gossiping on their own dresses,matching pictures with their synonyms,wall crawl for prepositions and so on.In due course of the task,the unfamiliar  vocabulary were discussed by the trainer with the phonetic transcription and pronunciation.A wonderful listening activity for the same lesson added the touch of a cherry on an ice-cream. The stages of teaching a lesson in English were derived as; theme (warm-up), topic, grammar/lexis, analysis, practice, personalisation and follow up.

             The afternoon session was activated with a `back to the board’ game involving the vocabulary of the fore coming reading lesson. The innovative techniques of reading were introduced with a jig saw puzzle task and running dictation. The entire session was illuminated with the smart and busy participation of the teachers. The first day was concluded with a home work to plan for a micro lesson.

             On the stimulating second day, the forenoon session was highlighted with the group tasks for grammar structures and themagic of writing.The stages of writing were illustrated sequentially. A fabulous group writing task was conducted and it was timed too. The afternoon session was focussed on the lesson plan preparation with a jig saw puzzle. It was preceded with the norms, formal utterances and a practice in a group discussion. The participants were made to teach their micro lessons which were guided by the instructor.  It was an optimistic sign of success of the programme that the teachers involved with great enthusiasm in the microteaching.

           At the closure of the training campaign, there was a feedback and vote of thanks session presented by the participants. It concluded with a thanks giving speech by the Principal of Annammal College of Education.  Putting in a nutshell, the British Council Training became an eye opener to all government English Teachers.  It is sure to create a tremendous positive impact in the classrooms.