Teaching examples
Project | Problem solving activity
As Lee and VanPatten says “meaning-bearing input has some communicative intent; the purpose of the speaker is to communicative a message to a listener”. This activity is going to give meaning-bearing input directly because my students were attempting to communicate a message about a problem in a foreign country, and both speaker and listener understand that the learner-listener is supposed to focus on the message.
Warm up | ¡Hablemos!
This activity allows me set the communicative tone during the class, and, at the same time, it allows students review all the grammar and vocabulary from previous chapters. On the other hand, my students had to work with their “compañero” and it is a good opportunity to establish a good relation based on “mutuality”. Peer interaction can be incredibly useful in implementing comprehensible input in a classroom, especially in a communicative classroom where learners are constantly communicating with other learners.
IPA | Taller de escritura
The Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) is a cluster assessment featuring three tasks, each of which reflects one of the three modes of communication--Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational. The three tasks are aligned within a single theme or content area, reflecting the manner in which students naturally acquire and use the language in the real world or the classroom. Each task provides the information and elicits the linguistic interaction that is necessary for students to complete the subsequent task