Sunday, November 30, 2014

Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development - Unit 17



Activities and tasks designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language.
While studying this course we learned that there are more than one way to teach through different activities and tasks, such as new vocabulary, functional structures, grammatical structures, subskills.

this unit  focused on three different types of activities:

Controlled activities.- give students repeated practice in accuracy and the form of language, and allow them to make few mistakes
Free activities.- allow students to use whatever language they wish in
order to complete a task.


Freer activities.- teacher can predict to some extent what language the student will need to use e.g. role-plays, information-gap activities, sentence completion, etc.
There are also many activities and tasks that are commonly used to develop reading and listening skills, those can be practiced receptive and not productive skills. Once again the teacher is the one in charge of choosing the appropriate activity according to learners.



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