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The College of North East London
Description of lessons
Teacher: Cemile Goksan
The video clips below show good practice in the teaching of Turkish to students on a Health and Social care course who will be working with children in the early years age range in nurseries. The learners in these clips are themselves speakers of a range of languages other than English and are very enthusiastic about being able to communicate with the children with whom they will be working in Turkish.
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Learning the names of toys and musical instruments in Turkish The lesson ends with the students matching written labels with actual toys which the teacher has brought in. Throughout the clip, the teacher gives an explanation in English of what she is doing and the students describe how useful this activity will be to them when working in nurseries. |
Interviews with the students from the Turkish class
In these clips, some students in the class explain more about their experience of learning Turkish.
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How useful have you found your knowledge of Turkish when working in the nursery? |
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Have you found it difficult learning Turkish? |
Teacher: Torcato Coutinho
The video clips below show good practice in the teaching of Spanish to students on a Science BTEC course who have no prior knowledge of the language.
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Health and safety in the laboratory in Spanish. Students then progress to individual activities focusing on the spelling of the words and then to pairwork using the vocabulary they have learnt in context. The aim throughout is to help students to see the relevance of what they are learning to their main area of study. The Spanish course is specially planned to link with this as closely as possible. |
The interviews with students studying Spanish alongside their main vocational courses
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What is your main course of study? |
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What techniques do the teachers use in your lessons to help you learn? |
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What are the benefits of learning foreign languages? |
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Why is it important to learn Spanish? |
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Do you know any other languages and can you see links with these languages and Spanish? |
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What motivates you to want to learn Spanish? |
Interviews with the teachers
In these clips, the teachers and curriculum leaders describe how languages fit in with their courses in Childcare, Science and Business.
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For what area of the curriculum are you responsible and how are languages integrated into your course? |
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How do you “sell” the course to the students for whom this is not their main area of study? |
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What plans do you have for future development of the course? |
Interview with the Curriculum Manager for Modern and Community Languages.
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What are the challenges in teaching languages to students on vocational programmes? |
Interview with the Vice-Principal- Curriculum and Learner Experience.
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What range of benefits does language learning offer to students at your college? |
