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Saturday, December 6, 2014

UNIT 17: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT



In this unit I learned that are tasks created to give students possibilities to practice and extend their use of language, such as new lexis, functional exponents or grammatical structures, or of the subskills of reading, listening, speaking or writing. Moreover, I learned that there are controlled activities that help students practice in accuracy and the form of language; hence, they will avoid making few mistakes. There are also free activities; these allow learners to utilize whatever language they want to complete a task. However, controlled activities give students plenty of guidance and support in using language accurately. In order to develop reading and listening skills, which are receptive skills.  Now, knowing about the content of the unit, I would apply activities that help students to enhance their English skills. For example, an activity for reading for details is to make students order pictures from a story that have been jumbled.

1. British Council (2014), controlled practice, retrieved from: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/search/site/controlled%20practice
2. Fig Essa (2011), Effective Listening skills, retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zNx_IarUw

2 comments:

  1. Good Veronica!
    Your reflectionn is well done! I like when you name a good strategy for helping students to read for detail. I would also use that in my teaching process. The links are also useful. Congratulations!

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  2. Great job!
    Your reflexion has all the elements that we need to undesrtand better the content of this unit, in additions your extra information seems useful, too.

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