Communicative Context Communicative Context in the Classroom. 16 May 2018 As the year winds down I'm ready for some time to reflect. Overall this has been a fantastic year. There have been struggles and celebrations like any other year. But…
vocabulary activities Salad Bowl: A mixer game turned into vocabulary review. 29 Mar 201819 Mar 2020 As I learn and experience teaching with comprehensible input, there seem to be times during the year when we just need to take a step back and use language in…
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…
