Shona Whyte

Communicative context

MEEF EnglishDecember 2014

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Communication in L2

1. what counts as communication in L2?

2. authenticity

3. use of L1

4. designing and implementing communicative activities

5. is a student presentation a communicative activity?

6. teacher and learner roles

Right or wrong? Explain your answer :-)

1. hy-PO-the-sis, pro-NOUN-ci-a-tion

2. Did you hear which college is it?

3. Ask the question to Pauline.  Ask five questions to your neighbour.

4. Everybody has copied this down?

5. Make them listen (= faire écouter) => have them listen

6. The final syllable of coffee and cookie is /i/ (high front tense vowel) and not /ɪ/ (high front lax vowel)

7. The goal is to make them listen.

Examples: different contexts, different learners

❖ drumming (Robert Duke) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfUcc-0YLY

❖ story retell (Two Monsters) http://unt.unice.fr/uoh/learn_teach_FL/

They’re engaged in an honest-to-God music-making experience and the lesson is eleven minutes old. That’s a very simple task but in that small task I am able to convey all the things that are most important about music-making.