ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOCUS SUMMER SCHOOL
MASARYK    JULY 2019
Essential Language Skills
& Areas Of Focus
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IN THIS WORKSHOP
§F.L.I.  And Dunglish
§Czechlish (?)
§Check your own skills
§Academic focus
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKER ISSUE
•F.L.I. (?)
•First Language Interference
•A fact for all 2nd language speakers
•Dunglish
•Spanglish
•Franglais
•Chinglish
•”Czechish”?
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•Each “ish”  has it’s own problems
•…… a problem for “lingua franca”  communication
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

DUNGLISH 1
●I am the first woman state secretary for the inside and I’m having my first period
●I am the first female Minister of the Interior and this is my first term of office.
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●He had it not standing in his diarrhoea
●It wasn’t written in his diary
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

DUNGLISH 2
●She worked hardly     (Ze heeft hard gewerkt)
●She worked hard
●I am there earlier been    (Ik ben dar eerder geweest)
●I have been there before
●The monkey’s coming out of your sleeve (idiom)
●Now I see what you mean
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

……. AND SPANGLISH
●He doesn’t have two fingers of forehead
●He’s not very intelligent
●Idioms, colloquialisms and jokes don’t always translate from one language to another
●The culture of language: direct / conditional?
●The “you” problem
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

OVER TO YOU  (1)
★Does “Czechlish” exist?
○What problems do Czech speakers find when transferring to English?
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★Small groups (2 or 3). Think about
○Vocabulary
○Grammar
○Idioms
○Other
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★Be prepared to report back
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

OVER TO YOU (2)
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•Test your own skills
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Essential Skills & Areas of Focus

ACADEMIC FOCUS
•DISCUSSION FOCUS
•What do you expect from yourself when you teach in English?
•What do you expect from your students?
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