Our Three New Courses in 2008
Mario Rinvolucri, UK
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Making the Most of a Coursebook
Teaching through Music and Visual Art
Methodology for Teaching Spoken Grammar and Language
If there were no new courses in 2008 you would have every right to ask "Has Pilgrims gone to sleep? What’s up with them?
The three courses I want to present to you were decided on after long discussions in Canterbury and several other good ideas had to be relegated to the back burner. Sad but realistic.
Since 95 % of teachers use texts books and base much of their teaching on them this two weeks examination of how to use the coursebook with more flair and imagination could become one of our most popular offerings. The course aims to show you how even a flat and tedious book that has been imposed on you and your class can be redeemed by the skill with which you use it.
The use of music and art in teaching language has a venerable history, going back at least to the time when Rudolph Steiner set up the first Waldorf schools in the 1920s. The use of the arts to give a lift to language instruction is also one of the strong proposals to come out of Project Zero and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence movement.
I think these ten days will be a treat for you, as music and art are in themselves joyous experiences, while at the same time you will learn techniques to leaven your teaching through the 2008-2009 teaching year ( assuming you are a Northern Hemisphere person.)
Maybe you once went to a lecture at a conference by Mike McCarthy or Ron Carter? What were they on about? ... Oh yes, something around the way spoken language is different from written, or was it something else?
Maybe you have seen that big green book, The Cambridge Grammar of English, with the many pages it devotes to the grammar of spoken English?
Apart from showing you the corpus linguists’ discoveries over the past 20 years in the area of ordinary , everyday conversations, this course will also offer you a whole set of techniques for teaching these new understandings to your students. You can’t teach students oral English with gap-fill and multiple choice activities!
If you are interested in language as an ever changing river this course is a must!
If you are interested in new methodology this course is a must!
Please check the Making the Most of a Coursebook course at Pilgrims website.
Please check the Teaching through Art and Music course at Pilgrims website.
Please check the Methodology for Teaching Spoken Grammar and Language course at Pilgrims website.
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