Create a New Forum Admin Login Member Login Contribute to Voyager Search VoyForums Help Desk VoyForums Exchange VoyForums Directory/Categories VoyForums Homepage VoyForums News FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

Analysis of the lesson Buy a Car, according to Ryan’s
theories presented in Overcoming Common Problems Related to
Communicative Methodology

The lesson about buying a car starts with a short
presentation:

Project Title: Buy a Car

Subject: Consumer Education/ Family and Consumer Science

Description: A project requiring research, critical thinking and
complex decision-making about an expensive consumer item--a car.

this presentation fails in what concerns
to specify the language funcions that the teacher is intended to
make students use. Ryan states that "learners can be
kept motivated and interested if... they know that they will be
practicing the past perfect or within a specific context".

There is a good warm-up activity, in which the teacher asks
the students to reflect a little upon the situation, and to
research things related to it.

After the end of the "research phase" and the end of
the "decision-making phase", the students are invited
to share the results of their work. Nevertheless, Ryan's model
suggests, at this moment, some presentatior, or some controlled
practice, in order to make students practice the conversation and
their pronunciation.

Another point about this "sharing phase" is that
students are asked to write a report - since this is a
communicative course, they should be invited to practice the
communication, increasing, this way, their fluency.

I think that the author of this lesson did not make explicity
the necessity of giving a feedback to the studentsbecause it is
implicit that they must get it (specially if we take into account
that they are going to hand in a written report).

Bibliography:

size="4">http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Ryan-Communicative.html
size="4">

rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OConsumerEdBuyCar912.htm"> size="4">http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OConsumerEdBuyCar912.htm
size="4"> 

• Re: task 7 -- J. Antonio A. Santos, 04:36:11 06/16/03 Mon
  • Re: task 7 -- daniel antonio de sousa alves, 22:53:37 06/16/03 Mon
• Re: task 7 -- Danielle Brandão, 14:56:23 06/20/03 Fri