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Engaging ESL Learners: Harnessing Realia for Effective Language Instruction

This workshop by Carleen Curley Velez, Ph.D. from UCLA's Center for World Languages, explores the use of realia—authentic materials like newspapers, advertisements, and maps—in ESL instruction. Participants will engage in ice-breaker activities and collaborate on group projects to create ESL activities tailored to different language proficiency levels. The importance of realia in developing language skills and its various applications, including comparative adjectives and tense usage, will be emphasized. Join us in enhancing your teaching toolkit!

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Engaging ESL Learners: Harnessing Realia for Effective Language Instruction

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  1. Creating a Realia Portfolio Carleen Curley Velez, Ph.D. UCLA Center for World Langauges

  2. Introductions • Ice Breaker • What is “realia”? • Why is realia important? • What can be done with realia? • Group project Overview

  3. Ice BreakerStand up if you… …know more than 3 languages. …have children. …are an only child. …have more than 5 siblings. …visited the USA before this trip. …teach at a college or university. …play an instrument. …drive in your home country. …like pizza. …enjoy teaching English!

  4. What is Realia? • Newspapers • Magazine pictures • Advertisements • Schedules • Vacation fliers • Forms • Maps

  5. Why is Realia Important?

  6. Newspapers • Expand headlines (adding articles and/or auxiliary verbs) • Creating or locating passive sentences • Using present perfect to present current events What Can be done with Realia?

  7. Magazine Pictures • Comparative/superlative adjectives • “going to” or “about to” to describe imminent action • Past progressive to describe past situation • Past tense (turn picture into story) What Can be done with Realia?

  8. Advertisements • Comparative/superlative adjectives • Comparative/superlative adjectivesin questions • a/an/some/any in shopping lists • Yes/no questions • Verbs of sensing + adjective What Can be done with Realia?

  9. Schedule • “Going to” to express future plans What Can be done with Realia?

  10. Vacation Flyer • “Going to” or “will” to express future plans • Giving and understanding directions • Reading and using numbers What Can be done with Realia?

  11. Forms • Interrogatives in the present What Can be done with Realia?

  12. Maps • Prepositions of place or directions What Can be done with Realia?

  13. Instructions Using the assigned realia from your folder, create a way to use it for a beginning, intermediate, and advanced level ESL activity. Groups • Newspaper • Advertisement • Map • Coupons • Tourist information Group Project

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