UNIT 17 PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

 

             In this chapter we studied practice activities and tasks for language and skills development. These activities give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language. Functional exponents or grammatical structures are examples of them. Controlled activities can give students the opportunity to practice accuracy. Other examples of controlled activities are drills in its different ways, individual drills, substitution drills, transformation drills. On the other hand free activities allow students to use whatever language they wish in order to complete the activity. Between controlled activities and free activities are freer activities in which the teacher can predict to some extent what language the student need to use. To sum up we can say that with controlled activities, our students have a lot of guidance and support, in using the language accurately, freer activities give a little less of guidance and support, and finally free activities do not give students guidance.

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                As a conclusion, I can say that we have many options and activities to help and support us in order to teach easily but taking into account all the positive aspects that teaching involves.

Many activities like role-plays, to develop the speaking skills in students or, information gap-activities to develop reading and writing skills are great examples. In the future I will use as much as possible these activities in my class because I consider that they are keys in the learning process, and also support and guide the teacher, providing extra tools to reinforce the learning process.

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UNIT 18 ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS

            Assessment types and tasks have to do with the evaluation of learners, using different methods. Assessment tasks for example are the ones we use for assessing learners in two ways; formal or informal.  There are different reason for assessing students for example at the beginning of a course we normally use a diagnostic test in order to evaluate the previous knowledge of our students. When we finish part of a course we can use a progress test to measure the learning outcomes of specific things base on the coursebook, or in the syllabus. T the end of a course we need to apply an achievement test or summative test to evaluate all the knowledge provided to students during the whole year, semester or the period of studies. Let’s talk about different tasks used in these tests. Multiple choice questions and gap-fill are useful and common options.  

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               As a conclusion, assessment is really important to measure the knowledge of our students. With assessment teachers know probably what is the problem with the subject or in which part students need reinforcement with extra classes, more examples and so on. I will use assessment with my students in order to measure an evaluate after each class all the knowledge provided by me and obviously to know if they have learned or no to make corrections, change the methodology or try to find out a solution for any problem manifested in class.

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UNIT 16 BACKGROUND TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

             For this time, I am going to sum up the most important aspect of presentation techniques and introductory activities. They are ways used by the teacher to focus learner’s attention on the meaning, use and sometimes form of new language, when introducing it to them for the first time. Introductory activities are important to start the class with a new topic. In every

All methods and approaches have different introductory activities. Here is very important to manage confidence in students in order to get their attention and comprehension.  The use of extra aids like mime or realia can help a lot with students. Many activities like warm-ups, activities to motivate students, pre- teaching activities or the famous ice-breakers are important and necessary in some cases. 

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                As a conclusion, I have to say that when teachers present or introduce a new language involves choices like grammatical structures and functional exponents. As a matter of fact, for some students or people in general introductory activities are really necessaries because with them the teacher calls students attention in order to get them involved in the class. I will use many introductory activities with my students when I have to teach something new to them, activities like motivation videos, the use of real objects to show meaning, warmers according to the topic and many others.

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UNIT 15 APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

            In this unit, we reviewed information that we learned in the previous module EFLT methods and approaches. First, let’s define an approach. It has to do with our personal view about how language learning takes place. In some cases approaches may refer to the ways or methods of teaching that we use. Some people that are in favor of communicative approaches say that language is a tool to communicate meaning, generally speaking for communicative activities.

              I am going to mention some of the methods and approaches that are useful for English teachers; PPP that says grammatical structures and functions are the most important aspect in language. The first step to follow is the presentation stage, after that we have to practice and finally we have to present our product. Input is really important, and activities such as situational presentations, miming, drills and information gaps activities. We have the lexical Approach in which we have to study chunks, collocations, idioms, etc. The functional approach that focuses on functions usually graded according to their frequency of use. The communicative approaches are important to mention because we use the language for interaction, taking into account accuracy and using authentic materials. To sum up, we have also the grammar translation, total physical response, guided discovery; Content based learning, content and language and integrated learning

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             As a conclusion, there are many methods and approaches to apply in education. The teacher must manage all of them in order to put into practice in a real class. I consider that I will apply this knowledge with my students choosing the correct method and approach to teach them the target language. As we could see, there are plenty of them and as I said the teacher is the person who is in charge of deciding which one is the best for teaching.

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