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English Course. Principles and Perspectives. Five Classroom Modes. MMA (Meaning Making Activities) LLE (Language Learning Exercises) CT (Communication Tasks) DA (Discourse Analysis) TSE (Task and Self Evaluation). Purposes for each mode. MMA - Meaning Making Activities.
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English Course Principles and Perspectives
Five Classroom Modes • MMA (Meaning Making Activities) • LLE (Language LearningExercises) • CT (Communication Tasks) • DA (Discourse Analysis) • TSE (Task and Self Evaluation)
MMA - Meaning Making Activities • To motivate initiation, design, outcomes, and evaluation of CT • To direct and organize overall language learning experience strategically • To condition shared experience • To illuminate sustained learning and development from other tracks: independent use of new language and diversity of learning outcomes
LLE – Language Learning Exercises • To help language learners notice new relations and features of the language • To prepare language learners for copying with language problems on the fly as they use it in real time (language prediction skills) • To condition diversity of learning outcomes
CT – Communication Tasks • To condition learner's discovery of personal current language problems • To create opportunities for learner to use noticed language features and relations in meaningful ways • To help learners produce more complex language in order to convey more subtle meanings, ideas, and feelings. • To condition diversity of learning outcomes and group work experience in English.
DA – Discourse Analysis 1. To illuminate current language problems of individual learners. 2. To reflect learning events and construction of learning contexts 3. To produce data for course evaluation
TSE – Task & Self Evaluation 1. To organize program and self evaluation activities 2. To identify learning opportunities afforded by learners 3. To improve the quality of language program
MMA Stages 1. Creating a bank of ideas 2. Forming groups based on shared preferences 3. Writing group’s proposal 4. Presenting & defending group’s proposal giving feedback to other groups’ proposals 5. Evaluating presented proposals 6. Making the final decision on the basis of proposals