Tasks, Activities, and Testiing

1. Tasks, Activities, and Testiing

2. Let’s practice • How much do you know about the different approaches to language teaching? Test yourself in the following slides.

3. PPP Lesson type 1 • The teacher presents information about an item • of language in context. • 2. Students work on oral practice of examples of these • items in controlled drills • 3. Students do a written exercise to practice these items. • 4. Students are given the opportunity to use these • items, along with the other language they know, in • communicative activities.

4. Lesson type 2 Discovery • Students were given some ‘if’ sentences containing the second and third conditional structures. • In pairs they compared and contrasted the sentences. • They invented a set of grammar rules for the form and gave two new examples.

5. Lesson type 3 TBL • The teacher chooses an activity requiring the use of • specific language points. Students do the activity. • While they are speaking the teacher listens in • discreetly and notes down problems he finds. • As soon as they have finished the teacher uses the • sentences he noted down to focus on and discuss • difficulties and teach potentially useful language • items that were avoided during the activity. • The teacher follows on with a similar activity to the • first one. Students now have better resources to deal • with some of the problems they may have faced.

6. PPP Lesson type 4 • Students read a text or listen to a tape. • 2. Teacher focuses them in on specific language points. • 3. Students do a follow-up exercise or communicative • activity.

7. TPR Lesson type 5 • Students act out phrasal verbs by teams to complete a list of all the ones they can find in their books.

8. TBL Lesson type 6 • Students use whatever language they have at their • their disposal to do a task. • They plan a report, helped by the teacher, where • appropriate. • They report to other students. • They listen to other students working on the same • task. • They study specific language problems arising from • earlier activities, practicing language, where • appropriate.

9. TTT Lesson type 6 • Students worked on an exercise on the past simple and past continuous tenses. • Many students had difficulty with the exercise. • Teacher explains the grammar. • The students practiced in pairs.

10. Lexical approach Task based learning Total physical response Grammar translation Functional approach Test-teach-test Presentation, practice and production The last word on teaching approachesthere is un extra unmatched option Learners perform actions in response to teachers’ instructions More emphasis on writing than on speaking Practices new structures after teacher introduces them Assess learners’ knowledge of the target language before presenting it Completing an activity before focusing on relevant language Focus on sets of words to use them in context.

11. Practice Activities and Tasks • Student opportunities to practice and expand language use should be • Meaningful • Have a clear purpose • Be interactive

12. Tasks and Learning Strategies • Relating tasks to learning strategies helps learners • apply what they learn and • retain the knowledge • Encourages learners to actively process the language through interaction in pairwork and group work.

13. Teaching Activities • Problem solving • Role playing • Labeling • Choral drilling • Form filling • Playing a game • Asking survey Q’s • Doing project work Which would you use when? Modes of teaching and learning worksheet

14. All Tasks and Activities • All tasks and activities should have variety • In their interaction patterns • In their subskill focus • In their emphasis on fluency or accuracy • In their language use (free or controlled).