Chapter 4
From learning about TBLT to implementing TBLT
Article outline
- Section I: Bringing TBLT to practice
- Impact of the TPDL professional learning programme
- Changes to practice
- TBLT and language teaching
- Alignment of TBLT with the New Zealand Curriculum
- TBLT as a language teaching methodology
- Implementing TBLT
- Enablers and constraints for implementing TBLT
- Enablers to implementing TBLT
- Constraints to implementing TBLT
- Section II: TBLT in the classroom
- Teachers’ practices
- Sara – teaching Spanish to Year 1 students
- Observed lesson
- Main task
- Example of interaction (teacher and student discourse)
- Student voice
- Teacher reflections
- Conclusion – Sara
- Melissa – teaching Chinese to Year 2 students
- Student voice
- Teacher reflections
- Conclusion – Melissa
- David – teaching Spanish to Year 9 students
- Student voice
- Teacher reflections
- Conclusion – David
- TBLT as seen in teacher practices
- Conclusion