01 Assignment

Write about the following and share with someone in your FB or at your school. FOR SUBMISSION TO PRC
1. Watch the Deb Roy TED talk (0:00 -11:00min). When might “error correction” be taking place and how? “error correction” took place unintentionally in which the baby himself
corrected the newly learned word through the utterances often heard from the interaction of the closed contact persons. These corrected words were built as his scaffolds of
words/sounds.

2. Watch the entire video by Dr Limbacher-Riebold. How do we process acquisition and learning differently?Acquisition is the act of acquiring something or gained something in an
unconscious process.
Learning is a process of gaining mental or physical grasp of the subject.

3. Do you teach what you believe? What do you believe about Communicative Language Learning and student success in learning a language? Precisely, I teach what I believe. I
believe that Communicative Language is something that should be considered for the students to learn the language. It is interesting to note that CLT helped students learn the
L2.

4.Choose a grammar point and list three contexts for a narrative story that requires the use of that grammar point.
Every Saturday….I
Answer:
1. VERBS……. Pray, fix, cultivate, prepare, check, thank Verbs
2. Nouns……. market, essential goods, pharmacy, tricycle
pray as I wake up.
3. Adjectives…… hilarious, surprising, addictive
fix my bed and rooms.
5. Choose only one of those and create the chart that will scaffold your students.
cultivate my flower plants.

prepare our meals for the day.

check important messages in my messenger.

thank God for a productive weekend.

You can do it!

 01 Checklist and scaffolding

For the Deb Roy TED talk you can use the “turn on transcripts” feature. The answer is close to the time that the graph is projected. It shows how the caregiver’s language
changes.

The Limbacher-Reibold video is just 2 minutes long. There are titles throughout.

It can be surprising once we take a moment to find out what we believe vs the research. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don’t. Knowing this and why, is powerful.

Enjoy making a story!

Thank you for your engagement and enthusiasm. 

 Characteristics of a communicative grammar language activity

Students need to communicate in order to be successful

Is meaningful/relevant to the students

Has comprehensible input

Has an authentic context

May incorporate scaffolding to lower the risk (affective filter)

 01 additional Reflection Questions (Optional)

Complete the sentence stems:

One thing I have learned about teaching grammar communicatively is…
To allow mistakes in the process of teaching grammar because by it and with it students will have the chance to be themselves and would not be ashamed to do
their share in the interactions thereby learn the L2 meaningfully and enjoyably.

One thing I have learned about myself as a teacher is…

To be more patient especially in dealing with mistakes.

One thing that surprised me is…

The new insights that teaching grammar should not be boring. Teaching grammar can be more meaningful with the aid of the CLT and fun activities.

One thing that will impact my teaching is…

To do the right strategies on teaching grammar. This CLT would be a great help in this endeavor.