LILT: Lessons in Language Teaching CD-ROM

Jane Orton

LILT consists of 37 video clips of unrehearsed, regular classes of Italian and ESL, grouped into four sets. Two of the sets follow a whole class period from start to finish. The other two sets present specific techniques and processes used for managing some of the most common tasks in language teaching.

The material has been selected to be complementary, combining to present at least one way of tackling a range of interactions and tasks in two different kinds of language program: one a content-based, immersion approach, the other a structured communicative approach.

LILT presents teaching and learning as a social practice. The video clips and the questions and observations provided with each clip direct attention to the teacher in relation to (i) the language, (ii) the students, and (iii) the behavioural and learning standards of the school.

The notion of a lesson in LILT is not the notion of something to be copied, but the notion of an event or story - an example - that we can draw encouragement and ideas from. Thus the practice shown in the videos is not presented as ideal or model, but as a stimulus to develop your thinking about language teaching, creativity in designing language learning activities and flexibility and affective engagement in work with students.

This product is available for purchase at the Melbourne University Bookshop