The NT2 building blocks in a coherent package: ready for the NT2 class: Trajectory

Hungry for didactic knowledge about NT2? Feel like a refresher? In this refresher course you will gain a solid foundation of new insights into pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, grammar, reading comprehension, writing and analyzing speech recordings. You and colleagues actively work with the NT2 building blocks: you learn, think, share, create and experiment. In short, you will receive a guided basic training tailored to your own teaching practice. Get ready for the wide NT2 world.

Program
This refresher course consists of seven sessions spread over five days.

Goals
After following this training course:

• can you teach sounds to your students, practice and consolidate them;
• know your prosodic elements, especially intonation, word groups and sentence accents;
• can teach, practice and consolidate prosody;
• know different ways to introduce vocabulary and design effective lesson activities;
• you know how to evaluate word acquisition;
• do you know the five keys to effective reading comprehension;
• design your reading assignments in which the 5 keys are discussed;
• can you effectively implement the 16 golden rules of grammar in your teaching practice;
• use your receptive exercises to learn to hear and see grammatical elements;
• offer your students contextual writing exercises;
• you have new tools to work around creative and functional writing;
• you know how you can work on a vocabulary, reading and writing policy at school;
• do you know the different parts of knowledge that are used during speaking;
• are you aware of the weight and function of the knowledge components;
• use your activating speaking exercises with prosody;
• you work on pronunciation as a common thread through each language lesson;
• find out to what extent someone is understandable;
• detect the errors that most disturb the intelligibility (= focus 1);
• do you detect the errors that disturb the intelligibility less or not at all, but which should no longer be made according to the learning line (= focus 2);
• find out what things students are already doing well in terms of speaking;
• make your functional evaluation and formulate your feedback and feedforward in function of the chosen focal points;
• you have new didactic insights and self-designed teaching materials and share them with colleagues;
• you have a basic training tailored to your own teaching practice.