Teacher Target Language
How Teacher Target Language use affects pupils’ confidence to speak in class
Identification:
The enquiry has been written to provide insight into Teacher Target Language use within Modern Foreign Languages classes and the effect it can have on pupils’ confidence in a year seven class starting in a new school.
Aims:
I aimed to investigate whether the use of the target language by the teacher in the classroom within one year seven class could: * Increase pupils’ confidence to use the target language themselves * Effect the motivation of the pupils to participate in class
Dimensions:
Wallasey School is a Local Education Authority (LEA) 11-18 comprehensive with approximately 1,100 pupils and 150 members of staff, situated in the north of the Wirral Peninsula. The intervention was undertaken with one year seven, middle set, mixed, French class, with a total of 22 pupils involved. It took place over two weeks, starting in January 2011.
Summary of findings: * Questionnaires state pupils consider speaking activities the most enjoyable of the four skills to practice in class * Questionnaires identify that pupils consider themselves to be more confident in listening over speaking, but rank speaking over reading and writing * Majority of pupils specified that they felt confident to speak French sometimes * 67% of pupils indicated they felt confident speaking French when other pupils spoke French * 55% of pupils indicated they felt confident to speak French when the teacher spoke French
How Teacher Target Language use affects pupils’ confidence to speak in class
Background and context
My reasoning behind this enquiry was mainly based on my own personal experience of both learning and teaching a modern foreign language. During my own primary schooling I remember my French lessons being taught mainly in the Target Language (TL) and I was confident to answer in the TL. However during year seven the majority of language lessons were
Identification:
The enquiry has been written to provide insight into Teacher Target Language use within Modern Foreign Languages classes and the effect it can have on pupils’ confidence in a year seven class starting in a new school.
Aims:
I aimed to investigate whether the use of the target language by the teacher in the classroom within one year seven class could: * Increase pupils’ confidence to use the target language themselves * Effect the motivation of the pupils to participate in class
Dimensions:
Wallasey School is a Local Education Authority (LEA) 11-18 comprehensive with approximately 1,100 pupils and 150 members of staff, situated in the north of the Wirral Peninsula. The intervention was undertaken with one year seven, middle set, mixed, French class, with a total of 22 pupils involved. It took place over two weeks, starting in January 2011.
Summary of findings: * Questionnaires state pupils consider speaking activities the most enjoyable of the four skills to practice in class * Questionnaires identify that pupils consider themselves to be more confident in listening over speaking, but rank speaking over reading and writing * Majority of pupils specified that they felt confident to speak French sometimes * 67% of pupils indicated they felt confident speaking French when other pupils spoke French * 55% of pupils indicated they felt confident to speak French when the teacher spoke French
How Teacher Target Language use affects pupils’ confidence to speak in class
Background and context
My reasoning behind this enquiry was mainly based on my own personal experience of both learning and teaching a modern foreign language. During my own primary schooling I remember my French lessons being taught mainly in the Target Language (TL) and I was confident to answer in the TL. However during year seven the majority of language lessons were