Match the following communicative tasks with the pre- while- or post-activity phases
Tasks
Phases
1. Write down all the reasons you can think of for getting married
2. A husband wants his wife to stay at home because he is earning more than enough. The wife wants to be self-reliant. What should they do?
3. Agree or disagree with the following statements …
4. Interview a working woman and a housewife (a pensioner). Report on the findings
5. Look at these pictures of the families. Which family seems happiest and why?
6. Write an essay, ”Coral gardens of family life”
7. Think of positive and negative words when you think of family life
A. Pre-activity
B. While-activity
C. Post-activity
Integrated task
· Give a rationale for communicative language teaching
· Illustrate the tasks for teaching pronunciation, grammar and lexis (indicate the source)
· Describe the tasks for teaching speaking and writing, listening and reading
· Work out a three-phase framework for any one of the tasks
· Ask your peers to evaluate your “three-phase framework task” according to the evaluation form and attach it
Points of analysis
Comment
1. The explanations to tasks are quite clear
2. The task motivates communication
3. The task provides information gap for the learners
4. The task simulates the real world
5. The task develops language knowledge in learners
6. The task develops world knowledge in learners
7. The task creates a reasonable challenge for the learners
8. The three phases of the task are quite logical
9. The tasks provide for a good communicative practice
Answer keys
SAQ 1.1
1B 2A 3D 4E 5C
SAQ 1.2
1B 2A 3D 4C
SAQ 3.1
1F 2C 3D 4E 5G 6B 7A
SAQ 3.2
Information gap
Simulation
Matching, jig-saw, interviews, reading the cues, communicative games etc
Role-play, problem-solving, socialization, project work etc.
Exploratory task 1.1
1 Frank is a learner who needs more time to think the task over. 2 Mark can’t stand the time limits because he is usually overactive. 3 Mary prefers working with examples and deriving a rule from them. 4 Clara is a “deductive learner” and prefers working with grammar rules. 5. Vera has problems with her phonological development and needs special attendance to her needs
1 Teacher-centered, 2 learner-dependence, 3 focus on form and text, 4 memorization, 5 deductive teaching from rule to examples
Exploratory task 2.3
A 2 3 5 7 9; B 1 8 10; C 3 4 6;
Exploratory task 2.8
1 test-tube babies, 2 AIDS, 3 Nuclear power
Exploratory task 3.3
1A 2B 3A 4C 5A 6C 7A
Glossary
Audio-lingual methodis the way to teach a foreign language through intense repetitions of language patterns
Communicative approachis a theory of teaching and learning foreign languages that recognizes the primacy of communication as the goal and the media of instruction
Communicative competenceis the knowledge that is necessary for successful communication
Communicative methodis a way to teach a foreign language through communication for the purpose of communication
Communicative principlesare guiding rules of instruction in the framework of communicative approach
Communicative situationis a set of circumstances, in which it is necessary to use the language for communication in order to achieve the desired goal
Communicative strategiesare the means and maneuvers of communication to deal with the goal, partner and circumstances
Communicative techniquesare the devices to organize teaching in compliance with communicative principles
Community language teachingis a teaching approach that emphasizes the importance of students’ co-operation, support and interaction
Direct method is the way to teach a foreign language by switching over exclusively to the target language in the classroom and intense grammar structure practicing
Grammar-translation methodis a way to teach a foreign language with the help of contrastive native and target grammar analysis
Humanistic approachis an education theory that recognizes the necessity to facilitate free and creative development of the personality
Information gapis a technique to give the students complementary information, which they have to pool together in the process of communication in order to fulfil the task
Interactive learningis instruction with the tasks that can’t be fulfilled by the isolated students but require co-operation
Natural approachis a way to teach a foreign language through massive exposure to the comprehensible language input in the classroom
Neuro-linguistic programmingis a teaching way that combines mental imagery with the language
Non-verbal communicationuses physical distance between the participants, facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, appearance and clothes, smell and perfume etc.
Oral approachis a way to teach a foreign language through oral introduction and practice of the language structures with the help of objects and pictures to create “situations”
Process-oriented teaching focuses on the motivation and involvement in the activities with the expectation of different results in learners according to their aptitude
Result-oriented teachingis the shortest way for all the learners in the classroom to achieve the same result
Silent wayis a method a teaching that attempts to combine creative thinking with the minimum of language resources available to the learners (using colored rods etc)
Simulationis a technique to replicate in the classroom real world situations for the purposes of communicative language teaching
Suggestopedyis a teaching way attempting to utilize the hidden cognitive resources in students through relaxation, music and elements of suggestive therapy
Total physical responseis a way of teaching that combines language rehearsals with physical activities