Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Welcome to my Blog for the Modern Language Methods Course!

Focus questions for Chapter 1 of each textbook. Read the questions and be prepared to discuss these.


Languages and Children:
Who are the students we are teaching?
We can look at them according to their learning styles, intelligences, developmental levels, motivation, individual talents and ...
What does Second Language Acquisition have to do with these students?
What is the key word emphasized throughout the discussion on comprehensible input?
What does this discussion have to do with your own learning?


Principles of Communicative Language Teaching and Task-Based Instruction:
The focus in this textbook is COMMUNICATION and TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING. In your own words, please define what both of these terms mean.

Describe what an example of an activity in the elementary classroom might look like that is communicative and task-based.

Looking at pp. 24-26, Who has the coolest room according to the descriptions?

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