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Date Posted: 07:49:49 07/24/03 Thu
Author: Eder Antônio Saraiva
Subject: Answer task 12

Belo Horizonte, 24 de Julho de 2003
Eder Antônio Saraiva – LET 175 - C


ANSWER TASK 12

Examine one textbook and choose a good communicative activity. Describe it and then classify that activity according to the types presented by Littlewood.

According to Littewood “the principle underlying functional communication activities is that the teacher structures the situation so that learners have to overcome an information gap or solve a problem.” So, I quote bellow a example of functional communication activity that has the objective of encourage the students to communicate in order to find the correct way to solve the task.

The activity is: The teacher select a picture story which comprises at lest six pictures. Cut the pictures up and jumble them, giving one half of the pictures to one student and the other half to another student. Instruct the two students to try to find the correct order in which the pictures should be placed. Each student should talk about his or her own pictures and listen to the other student doing the same. The two students should show each other their pictures only when they have decided on the correct order.


Bibliography:
Littlewood, W. Communicative language teaching.Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981. p. 16 to 42

Heaton, J.B. Classroom Testing. New York: Longman, 1990.

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