Exposure and Focus on Form

What is it?
Exposure
* Children learn language by picking it up from
their surroundings automatically.
* What is the main way that children learn their
first language?

* How do babies acquire language?

PARENTS ’ T ALK
 Parents start talking to their
little baby from the day he is
born
(Those parents who don’t talk to their
babies, are laying the foundation for
a late talker)
BY REPETITION
 By hearing language as the
parents talk and talk to it.

The more a parent can talk to a child,

often repeating the same words,
the same phrases, the same
structures over and over, the
sooner the child will learn language.
 By reading to the child
 Parents should read to their
children as often as possible. The
secret, however, which will lead to
optimal language development, is
to read the same stories over
and over and over.
 By singing nursery rhymes

 Research has shown that knowledge

of nursery rhymes among three-
year-olds help children to develop
pre-reading skills.
 Three main ways in
learning foreign language
Acquiring
- Exposure to the surroundings should be:
-rich in variety
-difficult enough
-interesting
Interaction
- to communicate with the other people successfuly
-express ourselves to make people understand us.
-understand them
Focus on form
-to study and practice the form of language used
 U R
EX POS
E
They need to hear and read a wide
variety of language at the right
level for them, either inside and
outside the classroom
COMPREHENSIBLE
and CORRECT
INPUT
SILENT PERIOD

• Learners need time to acquire

language. They need their own
silent period.
INTERACTION
 Learners need to use language to
interact with classmates
FOCUS ON FORMS
•Learners need
opportunity to focus on
forms of language.
LEARNING STYLES
• Each learner has their own
particular way of learning
language.
GROUP REFLECTION
 DISCUSS WHAT METHOD (S) DO
YOUR STUDENTS SEEM TO PREFER?
 What activities do you notice they
enjoy most?
 What activities seem to be more
efficient for your student’s learning?
TKT GLOSARY
 EXPOSURE
 When learners listen to or read
language without being
consciously aware of it.
ACQUISITION
 To learn a language without
studying it, just by hearing and/or
reading and then using it. This is
the way we all learn our first
language.
SILENT PERIOD
 The time when students who are
beginning to learn a first or second
language prefer to listen (or read)
for some time before producing the
language.
Focus on form

 To pay attention to language by

identifying and practising it.
INTERACTION
 Use the language to express
ourselves to communicate
successfully
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY PAGE. 42

 AQUISITION:
1, 2, 7, 8

 INTERACTION:
2,7,8

 FOCUS ON FORM:
3,4, 5, 6, 9, 10
Tkt practice task PAGE. 43
CHOOSE A,B or C
¡ A Children under the age
of five.
¡ C Acquire more language.
¡ C Process the language .
¡ C Learning language just
by hearing or reading it.
¡ B Pay attention to
accuracy and use.