VoyForums
[ 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] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 16:19:30 06/19/03 Thu
Author: Rita Cristina Lopes
Subject: Task7

The lesson designed by Karlys Wells has lots of opportunities for increasing fluency and vocabulary because besides the technical vocabulary related to cars, they will find descriptions, adds, etc. and until the end of the lesson the class will make decisions, will conclude the task and report it.

I found the context/subject of the lesson meaningful, presenting a real life situation because buying a car is a situation we go through many times in our lives.
I just felt that, at some point of the lesson, the grammar points should be exposed so, as stated by Ryan, students will be motivated and interested if they know which structures they will be practicing and how to use and adapt them into a given context.

I can’t comment on the rest of the items mentioned in Ryan’s paper because by just reading Wells‘s lesson plan, I can’t know about his style of teaching, the relationship student-teacher, the routine established and cultural awareness. The only point that should be different is the grand finali of the lesson. In my opinion, after receiving the written report that, in a way is a feedback because of the corrections made by the teacher, the closure should include a oral report. That could be, for example, how they reached the final decision and why, if there were more points of agreement or disagreement, etc.
The reason to do this modifications because there is no reference to a verbal feedback and observations and this final interaction would provide a very good opportunity to the teacher follow Ryan’s advice that learners need concrete feedback.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.