The diversity in educational and training background and experience of teachers around the world is such that teachers come to the ELT classroom with different levels of understanding of the many theories and models of second language acquisition (SLA).

This masterclass looks at noticing, part of the cognitivist SLA camp. Noticing tells us that students need to attend to and then process a language item before it makes its way into long-term memory and the learner’s individual interlanguage.

What is noticing? How does it work? What are the arguments in favour and in opposition to noticing as first put forward by Schmidt in the late 1980s and early 1990s? How can we work with noticing in our classrooms?

This masterclass begins by explaining what noticing is before suggesting some broadstroke good practices for its use in the classroom and then proposes some practical activities to encourage noticing techniques for use by teachers and students alike.  

Presented by Neil Harris – Teacher Trainer & Director of Marketing@CELT Language School.

Our Masterclass workshops are typically delivered in 90 mins.

At Gallery Teachers, we endorse the philosophy of building on your previous knowledge and experience as opposed to just imparting knowledge on you. 

Therefore, in order to prepare you for the webinar and help you activate what you already know about the topic, we will suggest two to four reflective questions for you to consider before you join the event.

You will also be given the opportunity to post your reflections, along with any questions you may already have at the pre-watching stage, to the discussion forum. 

The reflective questions, as well as ideas and shared experiences posted to the forum by attendees, will be used in the real-time Q&A session in order to generate an engaging and meaningful discussion, involving the presenter and teachers from around the world. 

After the event, the forum discussion will take on a life of its own and teachers will be encouraged to continue posting their experiences, reflections and questions related to the topic of the webinar. So, if you feel strongly about the topic, we will make it possible for you to take the discussion beyond the scheduled workshop and continue sharing your ideas with like-minded teachers and teacher trainers from other countries