MULTIDIMENSIONAL CURRICULUM DESIGN

ESL 1

Instructor: Marianne Eiselt

Theme: Social behaviour and culture in North America

Field of Experience: Canadian Living

Topics to be Developed: Geography, people and customs in Canada, Canadian Holidays, studying and working in New Brunswick, shopping and dining in New Brunswick, accessing provincial government services.

Experiential Goal: Learners produce and audio-tape about personal experiences in Fredericton, supported by visuals (photos, promotional materials) about their lives in New Brunswick to be sent to relatives and friends in their home countries.

Length of Unit: 5 weeks

Age Group: Adults (University students).

Nationality of Students: Chinese and Korean

Speaking/Listening competency Level: Intermediate, approximately benchmark 5 and 6 of the Canadian Language Benchmark Guidelines.

Experiential/Communicative Objectives:

1. Read articles about Canadian geography, Canadian customs and peoples. Among other sources, use the internet to locate information on these topics.

2. Analyze video about Canadians, who share their personal experiences with the audience.

3. Talk about a personal "culture shock" you experienced in Canada.

Language Objectives:

1. Listen and view a Canadian audio/video text for particular information.

2. Role play a variety of conversational situations such as giving directions to a stranger, making phone calls to make

hotel reservations and shopping for a specific item.

3. Examine roles for cultural behaviour.

4. Review sentence intonation and pronunciation.

Cultural Objectives:

1. Examine Canadian public behaviour as it pertains to communication.

2. Compare rules of social behaviour in Canada, China and Korea.

General Language Objectives:

1. Reflect on and talk about conditions for optimal second language learning (personal analysis).

2. Create and follow a list of criteria for production of audio-tape.

Detailed Lesson Plans

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