Teacher Assignment 1

The purpose of this assessment is to design a communicative listening task and then reflect on how
communicative it is/was when it is used with real students. You will use a basic tool for both the design
and the observation/reflection in the classroom, then write up your reflections and insights as prompted
by the assignment.

1. Setting and Background Information

Provide a brief overview of what you are currently teaching in ELD, why, and what you have noticed
with respect to students' listening needs.

. Design of the Communicative Listening Activity

Use the Communicativeness Design and Observation Tool (CDOT) to design an activity that develops
students' listening skills and/or language through listening (other modalities might be present, too).
Describe the activity below and include how it has the three features of the CDOT.

. Learn from the use of the activity in a lesson

Use the activity in a real lesson and observe students as they listen (or listen and watch) to understand
a spoken message. As you observe, consider the three features (engaging and purposeful, information
gap, attention to language) and how strong they are in the activity. In the space below, write up what
you observed. You may include evidence of student responses, if desired.
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Adapting and Improving

Based on what you observed, as described in Question 3, describe ways in which you might improve
the communicativeness of the activity or activities like it in the future. For example, you might have
noticed that Features 1 and 2 were strong, but Attention to Language (Feature 3), could be
strengthened next time because you noticed that students struggled to keep track of certain types of
language that you thought they could handle when you designed the activity.