Unit 17 - Practice activities and tasks for Language and Skills development

UNIT 17

PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

    

    The main idea of this Unit is the activities and tasks we choose to give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language and vocabulary.   There it mentioned two categories which are the Controlled activities and Free activities.

    To this, Controlled activities give student repeated practice of accuracy from the target language. So, I could adapt activities such as copying words or sentences to practice spelling, use drills, provide model language in choral drills or individual drills.

  Then, Free activities allow students to use whatever language they wish in order to complete a task. As a result, although it may us be clear on what students know or need to know we might have problems if we want to predict problems in specific language.

   

To sum up, Controlled practice will help students with a guide and support to use language accurately. So, I would rather us it by asking them to reproduce a dialogue, and give them a model, extra worksheet with vocabulary they may use, etc. for a correct outcome and with a wide language comprehension.

References

Porntip Bodeepongse, Practice activities and Tasks for Language and Skills development,

http://de.scribd.com/doc/14673118/TKT-Unit-16-Practice

Yesy’s space, Unit 17: Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development, 2012

http://yesyhd.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/unit-17-practice-activities-and-tasks-for-language-and-skills-development/