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Date Posted: 13:32:25 06/18/03 Wed
Author: Ronaldo GM Rosa
Subject: Task 7

SEVENTH CLASS June 16th to 18th

THE CLASSROOM

MAIN CONCEPTS: go on building your own glossary with the key concepts you find in the bibliography. See assessment for more information.

YOUR TASK IS:

Stephen B. Ryan wrote "Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology" [ http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Ryan-Communicative.html ]

Analyze the following lesson plan having Ryan's text as reference.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OConsumerEdBuyCar912.htm


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TASK 7


The lesson plan presented by Karlys Wells in "Buy a Car" is described as "a project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about an expensive consumer item - a car", according to the following scheme:

- 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.
- Question: What general factors enter into a buying decision about a vehicle? How can resources and a decision grid be used to make choices about a specific set of vehicles?
- Action:
RESEARCH PHASE / DECISION-MAKING PHASE / SHARING PHASE
- Tools: Internet, newspaper, spreadsheet, and desktop publisher
- Analysis: Students will justify their choice of vehicle to their classmates citing how well the vehicle meets the criteria selected and how they used the knowledge gained from their consultation with a classmate "expert".
- Publication: Students create a collaborative list of buying principles using word processing or desktop publishing to share with each other and to be placed in the library for other students to take. A cooperative car sales business might allow them to be placed in their dealership.
(WELLS, Karlys. "Buy a Car". http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OConsumerEdBuyCar912.htm)


ANALYSIS:

Wells's lesson has some interesting characteristics: it deals with an elaboration of activities related to a real situation, involving a series of instances in which the learners have effectively contact to the language studied.

According to a communicative methodology, in Well's lesson learners will research in various media (internet, newspaper, etc) in order to obtain material background to their activity , they will have to write and also to express themselves orally ("students consult with each other in the area of their expertise"), exercising alternately, reading, writing, speaking and listening.

The activity's goals are reasonably clarified (research, critical thinking and complex decision-making). Although these goals are not explicitly related to the use of language in communication, the whole process includes circumstances in which effective communication is practiced.

The routine or framework (Warm-up / Presentation / Controlled practice / Free practice) is also well defined. But Well's lesson seems to fail in terms of feedback: it is not clearly explained how feedback will be happen in the lesson.

Furthermore, the aspects of consistency in teaching style and student-teacher relationship appear relatively bad in Well's lesson. Little or none reference to the role of the teacher within the process makes impossible an appropriate evaluation of the student-teacher relationship and the consistency in teaching style.

Finally, about cultural awareness, it is possible to say that the teacher's omission about what is the cultural profile of the students makes him run the risk to ignore that such exercises involving excessive activities in groups and "criteria to buy a car" may appear quite uninteresting to some learners.


BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE

RYAN, Stephen B. "Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology".
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Ryan-Communicative.html

WELLS, Karlys. "Buy a Car"
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OConsumerEdBuyCar912.htm


Ronaldo G. Machado Rosa

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