Language Tasks Class survey tasks to create input from discussion. 9 Apr 20189 Apr 2018 When I'm honest with myself, I admit that I'm not very good at facilitating PQA (Personalized Question and Answer) off the cuff. PQA is definitely an area of growth for…
Language Tasks… Story Choice Boards for Self Directed Reading (FVR) 30 Mar 20187 Dec 2018 In January with the start of a new semester I started a FVR program. I'm using the term SDR, Self Directed Reading, simply because I hope to focus on students…
Communicative Context… Find Someone Who Task: Task based learning builds community and creates novelty. 11 Mar 201829 Apr 2019 Communicative context. How do we create it in a classroom setting? It is a challenge because our classrooms simply do not offer many situations for authentic communicative context. The farther…
Communicative Context… Can the classroom replicate authentic situations? 4 Mar 201824 Apr 2019 Lately, a lot of conversation about Bill Van Patten's ideas about tasks in the language classroom has popped up in different teaching for acquisition groups, specifically on Facebook. The idea seems…
