Planning A Productive Skills Lesson Flashcards
Productive steps:
The simplest way to understand the flow of practice in speaking and writing classes is to move from constrained, structured practice to (?) practice.
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Advantages of this “productive skills” flow:
1. Students build confidence in the target language when the risks of making mistakes are low.
- Students may “test the boundaries” and find exceptions to the rules they learn in later practice after having a solid foundation.
Productive skills - speaking and writing lesson:
There are 7 steps in a typical productive skills lesson. Pls name them
- Warm up
- Presentation of example material
- Analysis of example material
- Activity 1 - (constrained)
- Activity 2 - (freer)
- Activity 3 - (open)
- Follow-up - homework assignment
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
A short activity to lower students active language filters. Do not demand students to produce full sentences at this stage. There should be some loose connection to the target language.
Warm up
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
Reproduce simple structures and examples found in the material. Identify and correct any misunderstandings. Students who finish quickly should help slower students.
Activity 1 - (constrained)
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
Break down target language structures from the text. Look at genre, tone, and repeated language. Meaning, form and function should be discussed. It is important that students see and hear target language. If possible, the teacher should elicit student knowledge of language structures and patterns
Analysis of example material
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
The teacher should provide some example of the genre / style / setting they want their students to reproduce. Students should be given time to understand the material.
Presentation of example material
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
Students should now be open to discuss / write within the target framework. The task should have a much wider scope than earlier practice. Continue to monitor carefully as students may stray from topic or context. Do not disrupt successful communication and fluency for error correction.
Activity 3 - (open)
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
In this stage the practice should start involving student experiences and expanding on the target language. Keep structures intact but take a different stance on the language focus.
Activity 2 - (freer)
Pls name the following step of the productive skill lesson:
Discuss the success of the lesson with the students. Re-check students understanding of difficult elements. The completion of large open writing exercises may also be given and collected next productive skill lesson.
Follow-up / homework assignment
There are a number of ways for teacher to maintain the balance of productive skills practice and language acquisition.
- Ensure the task focuses on the specific language target.
- Ensure that the students are aware of the skills they will be practicing. While many tasks across many lessons will involve integrating skills and sub-skills to a specific purpose, having your students know exactly what and how you want them to practice is essential.
- In the earlier stages of the lesson student to student interaction is important. Remember that students working together assist each other in learning.
- Ensure you give written and spoken examples of target language.
- Ensure that students do more than just write and speak. They should get up, move around, draw pictures and ask questions
- Carefully plan and consider your delivery of target language. Consider what worked and what didn’t, what was eventually relevant over what was not. Student feedback on individual lessons is key to improving your lesson plans.
- Allow students to express themselves on a personal level.
In a productive skills lesson, the focus is usually on a type of language we want the student to reproduce.
This could be (?) / (?) conversation or a (?) of writing.
Transactional / interpersonal
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