Getting to know English proficiency Levels

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On Tuesday  9th we attended to a teaching ELD seminar that was really useful to me since they taught us how to identify or decide the levels or proficiency for the activities that we give to our students through techniques, for example they had posters on the walls and had us in groups to walk around the hall to identify which one of those posters was Beginners (which could be early or late beginners) intermediate and advanced. We can identify that through sentences, complex words that might be in them as well as words in past. For example I learned that Beginners students have limited receptive and expressive English skills, also I really liked the technique they used to have us in groups, we were given a page that said music genre appointments and the genres of music were Salsa, rock, jazz, country and we had to have one or two partners and write their names on the page for each music genre so whenever they played one of those genres we had to look for our partners and they did that for each activity had us or look for a partner according to the genre being played. I really think this is a helpful way to have our students make groups since it's fun and at the same time you are having your students to gather together with different partners each time and it helps them to interact with each other.

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  1. Unknown12 de octubre de 2018 a las 6:49

    I'm so happy that you five were able to attend this training session. It's an opportunity I wish I'd had!

    With regard to identifying proficiency levels, how do you think you might use the skills you practiced to identify proficiency levels of Ss in your own classes? How do you believe that this may benefit your Ss?

    I really like the musical way of making groups. I may have to start doing that!

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  2. Keysi Owens12 de octubre de 2018 a las 7:52

    I am planning to use these skills by being more careful and look for details when I am going to provide extra activities to .as. Also knowing this really helps me to identify the level of my students I relate to what they know and create an activity according to that

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