01 Assignment

Write about the following and share with someone in your FB or at your school. FOR SUBMISSION TO PRC
1. Watch the Deb Roy TED talk (0:00 -11:00min). When might “error correction” be taking place and how?

2. Watch the entire video by Dr Limbacher-Riebold. How do we process acquisition and learning differently?

3. Do you teach what you believe? What do you believe about Communicative Language Learning and student success in learning a language?

4. Choose a grammar point and list three contexts for a narrative story that requires the use of that grammar point.

5. Choose only one of those and create the chart that will scaffold your students.

You can do it!

 01 Checklist and scaffolding

For the Deb Roy TED talk you can use the “turn on transcripts” feature. The answer is close to the time that the graph is projected. It shows how the caregiver’s language
changes.

The Limbacher-Reibold video is just 2 minutes long. There are titles throughout.

It can be surprising once we take a moment to find out what we believe vs the research. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don’t. Knowing this and why, is powerful.

Enjoy making a story!

Thank you for your engagement and enthusiasm. 

 Characteristics of a communicative grammar language activity

Students need to communicate in order to be successful

Is meaningful/relevant to the students

Has comprehensible input

Has an authentic context

May incorporate scaffolding to lower the risk (affective filter)

 01 additional Reflection Questions (Optional)

Complete the sentence stems:

One thing I have learned about teaching grammar communicatively is…

One thing I have learned about myself as a teacher is…

One thing that surprised me is…

One thing that will impact my teaching is…