Assignment – 6

1. Why use stories in teaching young learners ?

Stories are a great way of teaching young learners new vocabulary and practicing
the grammar rules that they already learned. When young learners read or listen to
an interesting story, they are acquiring the vocabulary from the context, which
helps them remember the new vocabulary. As young learners love stories, they
remember the stories they hear or read. So, teachers can use stories to improve
young learners speaking skills by asking them to recall the story in their own
words. Moreover, stories are not only good for vocabulary, grammar and speaking,
but they also teach different cultures and some useful life lessons.

2. Do TRUE/FALSE activity!

1. Adults are not mature, competent, experienced, multitalented individuals. False

2. Adults can take the advantage of previous life and educational experience for
their learning. True

3. Adult learners have weaker cognitive and linguistic capabilities and conceptual
complexity than younger learners. False

4. Adult learners cannot gain full mastery of an L2, especially native-like

pronunciation. False

5. Adult language learners can employ strategies to monitor and evaluate their own
learning during a particular task. True

6. Adults can use five interlinked competences: discourse, strategic, linguistic,

fluency, and the highly contextualized pragmatic competence. True

7. Adults prefer self-direction in identifying goals and outcomes of their learning.

True

8. Adults prefer a task or problem-centered approach to learning. True

9. Adults consider themselves as knowledge constructors and problem-solvers.

True

10. Adults are not goal-oriented, responsible for learning, self-directed and self-
confident. False

3. What is formative assessment?

Formative assessment evaluates students’ progress during the course of the
learning. So, this type assessment occurs frequently during a unit of study and it
focuses on assessment for learning. By the help of formative assessment, teachers
get constant opportunities to shift and adapt their instructions. Quizzes, games,
polls during a lesson and on-the-spot evaluations can be examples of formative
assessment.