1. Contents 1 Focus 30 minutes Question 30 minutes 2 3
Strategy 30 minutes 4
Consulting Sessions 90 minutes

2. To-Find-the Focus-Activity From the Reading Burns 2010
Focusing circles: This is a technique from Edge (1992, pp. 37–38) through which you can narrow your focus by drawing a small circle at the centre (inside) of a larger one. The issue, topic or problem is written in the small circle and the larger [circle] is divided into four segments. In each of these segments an aspect of the topic is written. One of these four segments then becomes the center of the next circle and so on.

3. Example Communicative competence Pragmatics Sociolinguistic Competence
Grammatical
Discourse
Sociolinguistic
Strategic
Example
Pragmatics
Rituals of Conversation
Social functions like regret politeness
Discourse markers
Formal-informal
Intonation
Sociolinguistic Competence
Semiotics
Structures of conversation functions
Semantics
Pragmatics

4. Present your focus

5. Question

6. Area of concern Strategy You must narrow the scope
Should be theoretically informed
Should have derived from the problem statement
Must be an actual problem.
Strategy
Open-answer question
Avoid bias
Reflect your implementation comprehensibly and briefly

9. Present your question

10. Strategies

11. Approach Methodology Strategy
DISTINCTIONS FOR STRATEGY WRITING
Approach
Communicative
Affective
Grammar
CLIL
Metacognitive-Metalinguistic
Provides general parameters e.g. focus on communication, focus on emotional factors, on the integration of language and content, on reflection etc.…
Methodology
Task-based
Theme-based
Problem-based
Inquiry
Audiolingual
Strategy
Provides more specific parameters e.g. sequencing and times; nature and characteristics of the activities.
Poster Carousel
Mentor texts and the coding writing structures
This part focuses on the ‘how’ the teaching is going to take place. it usually depicts the resources and they way these resources are going to be used. It may also describe social dynamics, time distribution and the like.

12. EXAMPLE: POSTER Carousel
Approach: communicative; Methodology: TBT; strategies, recycling, repetition of language
Individual Reading
Content is selected and organized
Pair work
Representations of content on posters
Presentation dynamics
Rotation, repetition
Recycling
Poster Carousel
Impact
At the beginning and end of presentation, beginning and end of strategy.
Cycle continues.

13. Present your strategy

14. Thank You