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Date Posted: 16:15:31 06/20/03 Fri
Author: Cléber Vieira de Araújo
Subject: task 7

Task 7
Cléber Vieira de Araújo

According to Ryan it is important making classes meaningful, practical and fun for students.

The plans analyzed, in the site suggested, seams to be according to Ryan’s premises. The site furnishes a big and varied range of plans and tasks which seams to be effective to practice and fix the class learned points such as vocabulary and grammar. However, in none of them it is mentioned in which part of the class the task(s) would be implemented and another problem: there is no time schedule to feedback. How would the students be evaluated by their performance. Would every one get the total?

Ryan’s says - “Students oten do not receive enough feedback as to how they are doing throughout the course. This results in loss of motivation and interest. Despite what students may say, they prefer and expect to receive some kind of concrete feedback as to how they are progressing in the course. Learners need a constant stream of feedback big or small that can keep them motivated and learning as opposed to a assessing them with a single final semester test.”

As a English student as an observer to some English classes it is easy to identify the same frustration faced by the Japanese students. Students feel uncomfortable when they do not understand what results are expected with the task. Another problem is that students tend to lose interest and also get frustrated when they do not understand the process of evaluation; specially when the results are not the expected.

Another point that deserves to be highlighted is the teacher’s skill. Depends on teacher establish a kind relationship with students as well as maintain the group under control. Teachers may also have the capacity to be clear presenting the tasks as well as be coherent evaluating and giving feedback in appropriate time.
The conclusion offered by Ryan is very coherent highlighting communicative methodology excellence in it purpose, increasing fluency. He also reinforce that there is not a perfect methodology therefore communicative methodology requires support of other methodologies to help to solve and counterbalance the recurring problems that may appear.

Analyzing a lesson plan having Ryan's or other reference is not an easy task, especially to some one that has no experience at all managing a classroom.

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