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Date Posted: 18:43:01 06/18/03 Wed
Author: Marcos Manso
Subject: TASK 7

Task 7

Stephen B. Ryan’s “Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology” lists some common problems related to ESL teaching through Communicative Methodology. Karlys Wells’s “Buy a Car” is a project for grades 9-12 and it is not directly related to ESL learning. The problems which Ryan enumerates, although not strictly connected to the classroom environment, are basically linked by the author’s own experience to that sort of situation or locality. The project proposed by Wells requires research therefore clearly involving students in outside classroom tasks.

Wells’s project follows the basic principles of Communicative Approach but also lets emerge the very same problems which Ryan issues forth. It definitely has clarified goals but lacks to provide adequate feedback. Students do interact among each other but there is no evidence of feedback, especially from the teacher. Although there is no way to analyze consistence in teaching style in Wells’s project little can be inferred of what tasks would be performed by students in classroom. This activity could be entirely developed outside the classroom or broken into two parts: one done outside – the research and drawing of the grid on a spreadsheet - and the other inside classroom – students comparing their grids. Nevertheless it sets no time or clear definitions of what should really be done in the classroom.

In spite of the fact that Wells’s project does follow some sort of routine or framework it does not match the one presented by Ryan which is common used by teachers. This is due for the same reason cited above, which is: the framework Warm-up, Presentation, Controlled practice, Free practice, and Feedback as presented by Ryan clearly relates to classroom environment, while the project external activities and is mostly based on free practice.

Other aspects mentioned by Ryan such as cultural awareness and student-teacher relationship cannot be analyzed in correlation to Wells’s project for little or no ground is provided to do so.

Marcos Manso

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