UNIT 17 PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

This unit suggests that those activities are designed to let students the opportunity to experiment with the language and develop it, for example with vocabulary, functional exponent or grammatical structures, or of the subskills of reading, listening, speaking or writing. We can consider three kinds of practice activities and tasks for language and skills development: Controlled activities, Free activities and Freer activities.

Controlled activities are mostly used to guide students in using accurately the form of target language. Here are some examples of those activities like copying words or sentences, jazz chants, and drills. By contrast, free activities that focus on fluency, allow students to use the language they deserve in activities, so the teacher is not able to predict what kind of grammar or vocabulary for example they are going to use, but students will interact and recall past information into exercises or activities like discussions, problem-solving activities, sharing or comparing ideas, information or experiences; rank ordering/prioritizing.

In freer activities students have the help of the teacher to do some exercises and he or she guide in a determined way to make students get their goal to learn the target language. Students will produce the language according to what the teacher is avle to require from them.

Please go to the following links for more information:

http://jobs.languagelink.ru/tefl_clinic/teaching_knowledge/glossary/practice_activities_and_tasks.php

http://www.funenglishgames.com/games.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Jobs.languagelink.ru, (2014). Practice Activities and Tasks. [online] Available at: http://jobs.languagelink.ru/tefl_clinic/teaching_knowledge/glossary/practice_activities_and_tasks.php [Accessed 7 Dec. 2014].

Funenglishgames.com, (2014). Free Interactive English Games - Fun Learning Activities for Students. [online] Available at: http://www.funenglishgames.com/games.html [Accessed 7 Dec. 2014].

Learn English | British Council, (2014). Learn English | British Council. [online] Available at: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/ [Accessed 7 Dec. 2014].