2008-09 AM Teaching for Communicative Competence

• Lecturer: Wolfgang Gehring
• Language tutor: Lindsay
• Time: Thursdays, 10-12am
• Venue: A6 0-001

• Requirements for AM 7
• Suggestions for graded action items (3KP)
• Collected vocabulary for didactics

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November 13, 2008

• Elicit theoretical fields for the evaluation of lesson plans

• Analyze the "opinion" lesson plan (in Stud-ip under "Dateien" 06.11.) by applying the collected

criteria from week four.

1. authenticity of speech acts
2. authenticity of language use
3. authenticity of activities
4. contextualization of the lesson
5. appropriateness of language use
6. communicative level of activities for weaker/stronger learners
7. opportunities for free language use and hypothesis testing
8. variety of forms of interaction
9. cooperative forms and communication
10. proportion of learner-centredness/teacher-centredness
11. proportion of closed, half-closed, and open activities
12. sociolingustic references in the lesson plan

• Please outline alternatives

1. Introduction (contextualization)
2. Development/Practise (Erarbeitung)
3. Application/Production (Anwendung/Transfer)
4. Follow-up activities

November 20, 2008

• Lemmata - short texts within group work on:

1. authenticity
2. learner centredness
3. contextualization
4. cooperative learning

• Collect questions one might ask about grammar teaching

• Task-based grammar teaching: Does it work? (See download in stud-ip)

Links

• 4teachers.de
• Niedersächsischer Bildungsserver