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Name: Haß (2006: 131f.) Name: Scrivener (2011: 159f.; 163ff.

) Name: Ziegésar
Recognizing grammatical structure / Teacher shows pictures connected to The grammatical structure is intro-
item in a genuine / authentic context the lesson topic / context and elicits duced or demonstrated in a teacher
(situational, text-based) realizing a ideas from the students. talk. The context and the situation
cognitive deficit 1. Demon- should be interesting, vivid and clear
1. Noticing 1. Lead-in
stration to the students. The new grammati-
cal structure is embedded in a mean-
ingful context and is used 10 to 15
times.

Learners try to understand the form Learners read / listen to a text (either Students listen to the story (demon-
and function of the new grammar explicitly made for learners of the stration) by the teacher; they under-
2. Restricted 2. Comprehending stand the new structure & prove their
2. Comprehen- item by making predictions and acti- foreign language or authentic texts)
or authentic / Understanding understanding by reacting verbally
ding vating their previous knowledge (on and get a general understanding of it
exposure & Reaction but they do not use the new structure
his/her own or with a partner) (maybe via a sequence of tasks &
feedback). in this step.

If learners are not able to grasp the 3. Teacher Teacher uses the text to give / elicit In this step the learners use the new
form and the meaning / function of clarification examples and explain / elicit informa- grammatical structure or new gram-
the new grammar item, the teacher tion about the item of language. mar item for the first time. In a
(explanation, 3. Re-production,
has to guide the clarification process. st teacher-guided talk the learners are
3. Structuring guided discov- 1 use of gram-
asked to re-produce the new struc-
ery, self-directed mar item
ture and should only change parts of
discovery)
the sentence as for example certain
words, e.g. in true/false statements.

Clarification includes the form, the The students work on oral practice of Learners use the new structure
function of the new grammar item examples of these items. mainly in group or pair work. The
4. Restricted
4. Contrasting and it has to be contrasted with L1 4. production tasks should be communicative situa-
output I
and later e.g. with other grammatical tions (some kind of scaffold could be
structure (tenses). provided).

A monitor rule is provided as a kind The students do a written exercise to 5. Clarification, Form, function/meaning and rules of
5. Restricted
5. Monitoring of mnemonic. practise these items. raising language the new grammar item are worked
output II
awareness out or elicited inductively.

New grammar item is practised until The students are given the opportu- Clarification can also
it’s internalized and transferred into 6. Authentic nity to use these items, along with be after step 3 …
6. Mastering
the implicit knowledge which is used output the other language they know, in
unconsciously. communicative activities.

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