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Making the English language personal

Oxford don Jamaican poet

Having the free will to choose an accent

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We talked negatively about not allowing any other forms of english, and having only one correct accent. Also we decided on less group work, and more grammar.

On the flip side, we wanted to make on open and welcoming classroom, where every and all versions of english are welcome, we would have as much group work as possible, and a lot of communicative teaching. We would work with teaching the students to understand and accept different varieties of english, and making it their own.

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Working with multiculturalism in the classroom.

Trying to educate the learners on what culture is and what characteristics accompany it.

Gaining an understanding of identity within or outside of a cultural context

Including multicultural materials

Reflection upon stereotypes and biases

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Positive ideas:

Ensuring that teaching activities are engaging to students

(Pre-task, main task & post-task) + evaluation

Vary English curriculum (choosing a not so commonly chosen English-speaking country?)

Incorporating different teaching tools in your way of teaching (making teaching engaging to students)

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negative ideas:

non inclusive language teaching

not being adaptable or not collaborating

diversity as a problem

dont be narrow minded/ closed off

positive ideas:

being inclusive in language teaching

being adaptable and collaborative

english language as a necessity

instead of viewing each others differences as a bad thing, try and use it as a resource/ learning experience

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Idea for activity: the pupils write down on a piece of paper what is said aloud by the teacher. The teacher should emphasise that the words written down should not be grammatically correct but sound correct (more=spelled=mor). Afterwards the pupils create their own text with their own “English” words.

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Make it easier for the pupils to participate by dividing them into groups based on their skill.

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Compare a native language text to a British language text. Compare and analyse.