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Turning the unit on its head
NEIL ANDERSON
DELTA PUBLISHING / KLETT PUBLISHING
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Accuracy First e.g. PPP
• Present Language Point
• Practise Language Point
• Produce Language Point
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Fluency First e.g. TBL / TBLT
• Pre-task (preparation / support)
• Task
• Focus on Language (relevant to task...relevant to learners)
• Repeat Task…?
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TBL:
Prioritises meaningful communication: the task is central Does not assume immediate mastery i.e. that learners
learn what we teach
Casts its net wide: room for emergent and incidental
language
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What is a task?
primary focus on meaning not form
students’ own linguistic resources
goal or outcome
…a gap: need or desire to share information (e.g. share experiences / opinions, solve problems)
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What is a task?
primary focus on meaning not form
students’ own linguistic resources
goal or outcome
…a gap: need or desire to share information (e.g. share experiences / opinions, solve problems)
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Some sample tasks: - Domestic Robot (listing / ranking) - Fake News (problem solving) - Crime and Punishment (opinion gap) - Nostalgia Story (sharing experiences)
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I need to cover the grammar in the unit
But…I use a coursebook with a grammatical syllabus
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A few ways to ‘taskify’ your coursebook:
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1. Ignore the grammar (for now) - find the freer practice
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2. Make the freer practice task-like - give it a goal / outcome e.g.:
- find similarities / differences - agree / disagree - find out more – follow-up questions - be prepared to report back
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3. Turn the unit on its head – start with this new “task”
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4. Do the language focus after this task but…
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5. …cast your net wide e.g.:
- feed in language while sts prepare task - listen and note language during the task - focus on this emergent language after - examine texts / tapescripts from the unit - If lacking, give a teacher model
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6. Repeat the task, with variables e.g.: - new partners
- new goal / outcome - tweaked content - different demands e.g. time limit
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Now apply these principles to this material: 1) find the freer practice
2) give goal / outcome 3) identify other relevant language 4) repeat the task: how to vary?
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Activities for Task-Based Learning by Neil Anderson and Neil McCutcheon [email protected]