JALT International Conference, 16th-23rd November 2020
LiLT SIG Featured Speaker: Dr. Christian Jones
(Liverpool University, UK)
Sponsored by JALT Literature in Language Teaching SIG
Literary Texts: Access, Activity and Awareness
Saturday, Nov 21, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
This workshop will illustrate an Access, Activity and Awareness methodology (Jones and Carter, 2012) and show how we can apply this method to any piece of literature. This interactive workshop will demonstrate that literary texts are rich in both spoken and written language by asking participants to work directly with a range of sample texts. It will also show that such texts can develop student engagement and language awareness at different levels and age groups.
Dramatised Literature & Spoken Language Awareness
Sunday, Nov 22, 5:55 PM – 6:20 PM
Recent developments in corpus-informed materials (e.g. McCarthy and McCarten, 2018), have greatly improved the dialogues learners encounter in textbooks but many can be unnatural. As a result, there is a need for more realistic and motivating models of speech. Dramatised literature offers one such model. This presentation reports on research using an example of such literature (the BBC show Sherlock) and explore how it can be used to motivate learners and develop spoken language awareness.
Christian Jones is a Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he is the academic lead for postgraduate taught programs in the School of the Arts. His previous experience as an ELT professional has seen him working in China, Japan and Thailand. During his 25 years working internationally, he taught general English, business English, exam classes, classes for young learners, and has undertaken materials and course development and teacher training. He holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham. Dr Jones’ main research interests are related to spoken language and include work on spoken corpora, lexis and lexico-grammar, classroom applications of corpus data and instructed second language acquisition. Dr Jones has been a plenary speaker in the UK and an invited speaker in Ireland and the UK. He has presented at conferences around the world.
