Chapter 8 - H Brown
Chapter 8 - H Brown
Chapter 8 - H Brown
Materials generation
How? Choose the learning materials. Adapt + produce materials to be used as the basis of teaching. Present these materials. Why? Necessity - Dissatisfaction with available materials - Lack of resources for copying Recognition - Learners are also a source of knowledge
1. Utilising learners language 2. Learner-produced exercise and worksheets 3. Learners as teachers 4. Learner-based teaching
Increasing readiness on the part of the teacher to share responsibility with learners for materials production
Principles
1. 2. 3. 4. Present the errors in written form. Embed the errors in sufficient context. Mix in afew correct examples (from learners) Do not indicate which learner has made a specific error. 5. Group instances of similar errors. 6. Do not make the list too long.
Why?
As a stimulus to self-correction General awareness raising Errors prediction
Why? Students are asked to do tasks for which they feel inadequately prepared. How? 1. Error-list procedure 2. Presenting learners in advance of the activity
Why?
Real/authentic Prompt questions and discussion Offer real insight into peoples lives Bonding (teacher-students relationship)
Benefits
preserve face opportunity of selfcorrection Feedback - Private - Economical - Focused - comprehensive
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5. Each group tells the story to the rest of the class, ask clarification quetions and suggest recommendations for improvements. Each group writes up a final version of the story, which can be subsequently recorded. The group devises comprehension quetions of the story.
6. 7.
Benefits
Help students to generate ideas Stimulate the writing process Replicates real-life writing (drafting and redrafting) Can benefit learners with different strength and weaknesses - Personalized activity - Discussion is purposeful - Stories of real interest to the other students