Making Molehills Out Of Mountains - Realizing Learner Potential and Creating Opportunities
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The document discusses characteristics of successful language learners, emphasizing their willingness to take risks, motivation to communicate, and ability to make learning meaningful. It also proposes methods to develop essential academic skills, such as reading, writing, and presentation skills, to help learners succeed in both academic and professional settings. Additionally, it includes a specific course structure aimed at enhancing these skills through various practical projects and discussions.
Making Molehills Out Of Mountains - Realizing Learner Potential and Creating Opportunities
- 1. Successful Language Learners and What They Can Teach Us“By looking at what is going on inside the good language learner, we may be led to well-developed theories of the processing of linguistic information which can be taught to others ”.
- 2. Making Molehills out of Mountains: Realizing Learner Potential and Creating OpportunitiesSarah Louisa Birchley, Andrew Boon, AyaMizue and Hiroshi Okamura
- 3. Making Molehills out of MountainsWhy molehills and mountains?What do successful language learners do to be successful? ????????
- 4. What the “Good Language Learner” Can Teach Us (Rubin, 1975)The good language learner is a willing and good guesser.The good language learner is motivated to communicate.The good language learner doesn’t worry about appearing foolish, is willing to make mistakes and take risks.The good language learner attends to form.The good language learner practices, uses new knowledge, creates opportunities to use the L2 both inside and outside of the classroom.The good language learner monitors speech.The good language learner attends to meaning.The good language learner makes the learning event meaningful in order to remember it.
- 5. Making Molehills out of ALPSThe Academic Learning and Professional Skills courseHow can we use what we know about successful learners? ????????
- 6. To develop specific skills required for academic business reading and writingTo develop skills necessary to listen and talk about a range of issues pertinent to modern society
- 7. To undertake basic research on various topics via internet, library, and through various quantitative and qualitative research methodsTo develop presentation skills via the use of posters and PowerPoint to communicate research findings in English
- 8. To develop skills necessary to undertake and succeed in a variety of examinations includingBULATS and IELTSTo foster the knowledge and creativity to survive in the modern academic and business world
- 9. 基礎英語応用英語専門英語専門英語Entrance TestEntrance Test学部・レベル別合同ALPS Course (人文／現代)
- 10. 30 week course2 x 90 minutes per week2 creditsAcademic skills textbookCALL room and regular classroom
- 11. Skills BuildingTest PracticePractical Projects
- 14. From the voice of the successful learner…
- 15. AyaMizue
- 16. ExperiencesIn HawaiiAt Junior High School
- 17. Changing my study style
- 18. IN ALPS
- 20. Hiroshi Okamura