Task-Based Activities in the Foreign Language Classroom #wlclassroom
- 1. Exercises, Activities or Tasks in the Foreign Language Classroom? What should I do? What is the most beneficial?
- 2. Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency and communicate with confidence.
- 4. Understanding what the benefit of an exercise, activity or task is will help you to determine the most effective and efficient use of your students’ time in class.
- 8. Conjugate the verb. Possible without knowing the meaning of the verb. Fill in the blank with the correct verb form. Possible without understanding the sentences. Language is acquired best when it is in meaningful context. Exercises don’t provide context.
- 10. This is what an activity might look like: Find out the age of everyone in the class. Requires knowing how to ask and answer this question and understanding the response. Language is acquired best when it is in meaningful context. Activities provide some context.
- 12. Here is an example of task: Ask everyone in the class his/her favorite type of movie and then we will collate our answers to see the favorite type of movie in the class. The goal of the task is to find the most commonly liked type of movie in the class, not to ask questions.
- 14. Tasks provide the most effective and efficient way to build language proficiency The target language is the tool used to meet the goal, objective or task.
- 15. Take a look at what your students are doing in class. Are they practicing language out of context, using a structure in context or authentically using the language as a tool to meet a non-linguistic objective?
- 16. Click this link or the image to right to read my blog post on task-based activities. You will also find lots of examples.
- 17. www.wlclassroom.com Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency and communicate with confidence.
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