- Introduction
In this part, you need to introduce you dissertation and address the reason why you choose this topic.
- literature review
2.1 the background of 10 years old children( in China, 10 years old students are grade 3 students in primary, and they are just the first year to learning L2.)
This part including the nature of 10 years old children, what the level they have?Are they beginning learners or advanced learner? how they learn L2 speaking? What the process of 10 years old children Learning L2 speaking,? whatthe difficult in learning L2 speaking for them?
2.2the difference between children and adult in learning L2
In this part, you need to write some differences between adults and children learning L2 speaking and you also need to discuss a hypothesis “ the young the better” critically , address the age effect on learning L2 speaking, you need to provide literature to support you idea.
2.3teaching L2 speaking to 10 years old children
This part you need to write some approaches to teaching L2 speaking to 10 years old children, what particular approach may help? Types of speaking tasks? How does this approach help? And teacher’s role and teacher talk in classroom?
2.4 speaking strategies
This part you need to include some strategies for L2 speaking
- lesson planning
In this section, you need to design a fifty-minutes lesson to teaching L2 speaking to children, you need to develop your lesson according to story- telling approach.
3.1 context
Including your context of your lesson, what is your focus? Who is your students?
3.2 lesson aim and literature review
You need to write what is your aim to design that lesson? What effects of this lesson have? You need to use some literature to support your idea.
3.3 lesson material
You need to select a material about story-telling and use it for your lesson,the material you select for your lesson need to presented in Appendices.
3.4 lesson procedure
This section provides a description of lesson structure.
- Conclusion
Conclude this assignment, including some reflection of the lesson plan, the limitation of the lesson, and the change of you plan.
Criteria for assessment
You need to provide literature as much as you can, the depth and breath of you discussion is most important criteria for this assessment.
- Your write-up will be an essay, discussing the following aspects of your micro- teaching
a review of the literature on the teaching focus you have chosen
a review of the lesson plan: how that plan relates to the specific needs of intended students and to the relevant parts of the literature review.
discussion of modification/changes to the lesson plan(either for the intended group of students or for a different teaching context) that you would make in the light of a. your micro-teaching or b. any subsequent reading of the literature.
- for essay
- Depth and breadth of discussion of the theme/focus with appropriate reference to the literature and in relation to the chosen teaching context.
- Depth and breadth of discussion of the planning of the whole lesson with appropriate reference to the literature on your theme.
- Depth and breadth of discussion of and reflection on the lesson, including suggestions for modifications, with appropriate reference to the literature.
- Coherence of essay, especially overall organisation and division into sections and paragraphs
- Presentation, style, referencing and English.
- Appendices must be numbered and have clear title. Any sources must be referenced as normal. They do not count in the word limit.