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Move Students’ Foreign Language
Speaking & Writingfrom
Novice to
Intermediate
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Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency
and communicate with confidence.
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At the novice level, students are
speaking and writing with single
words and lists initially, then move
on to memorized phrases.
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Intermediate students create complete, discrete sentences on their own that move beyond words, lists & phrases.
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Teachers can scaffold this process
for students by assisting them in
creating sentences.
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It is often challenging for students
to add details to a sentence to make
it complete & their own.
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Using question words with students is a simple and effective way to have students add details to their sentences.
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The more they do this the more
they will grow in confidence and
begin to do it on their own when
speaking & writing.
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This will move the sentence from
“I like to swim”
to…
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with whom?
when?
where?
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“I like to swim with my friend Julie on Saturday at
the community pool.”
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The more students get accustomed to adding details this way the more they will do it on their own when speaking and writing.
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Click on the image below to read my blog post on this topic.
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Click on the images on the next few
slides for suggestions and resources
for guiding students through this
process of moving their speaking and
writing from novice to intermediate.
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Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency and
communicate with confidence.