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Activity 4 Comparing activities
Objective: to give participants an opportunity to develop some principles of a language awareness approach.
Time: 20 min
Materials: 20 copies of handout 4
►Procedure:
-☺(1 min) Invite participants to compare Activity 1 (Making up a sentence), Activity 2 (Mini-stories) and Activity 3 (Jigsaw reading) and to find differences and similarities between them.
- ☺ (7 min) Ask them to remain in the same groups and to fill in a questionnaire individually. Distribute handout 4.
- ☺(2 min) Ask participants the following questions:
- What have you learnt about teaching grammar from comparing these activities?
- Elicit a few random responses.
- ☺(5 min) Ask participants to draw some principles of teaching grammar. Elicit a few random responses. If necessary, help participants by discussing the following:
Text- Preferably authentic, long enough to establish the context.
Context- Should be sufficient to relate to a certain life situation.
Form and meaning -In real communication the meaning dominates over the form while in traditional language teaching the focus has been firmly on the form and not on the meaning.
Choice- The reasons why a particular grammar form is used should be explored
Awareness - Learners should be encouraged to view a language as a complex living phenomenon and not just as a number of words arranged according to simple rules.
Summary- Reiterate the main points of the session: Say that grammar forms should be presented in context. The teacher should establish that the students understand the language point
and then unpack it with the help of thinking questions to make the language point clear. The next question can focus on the principles of language use. Give your own example:
Mrs Kurbanova has been using the same textbook in her classes for almost ten years. She thinks it’s time to try something new.
Does Mrs Kurbanova still use this textbook? How do you know?
What can you say about the use of present perfect continuous?
Introduce the term ‘language awareness’. Refer to the Glossary. Say that it is ‘awareness of how English works’ and that its key element is that learners ‘discover language for themselves’. Suggest that teachers should look at the language beyond simple rules and notice its use in reality.