Unit One-page 3

ETAP623 : Unit One-page 3

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Activity 3: Case Study

Please watch the video from the Teaching Foreign Language K-12 video library, produced by WGBH Educational Foundation with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, 2003 (Annenberg Foundation). You will have to register to gain access to this video library, but you may do so at no cost.

Segment #28: Creating Travel Advice

http://www.learner.org/resources/series185.html

After watching this video segment, please think about and answer the following questions. Please write down your answers on the "Comment" area. 1. Describe how the teacher makes use of IRE discourse and IRF discourse in the class.

2. What do you find the teacher use any good discussion-based approaches in the class?

3. How does the lesson guide students to use critical or high-level thinking?

4. How do students apply and use what they learned in a real communication?

Activity 4: Reflection

After you finish this unit, please think about the following questions. You may spend 20 minutes to answer these questions and please write down your answers on the "Comment" area.

1. Why is literacy understanding important for learners and why is the discussion-based approach good for helping teaching literacy understanding?

2. How do classroom discourses help our teaching process?

3. How to effectively apply and use discussion-based approaches or do you have any good examples for us?

4. Have you met any problems when you teaching literacy?

5. Have you used classroom discourses, or called discussion-based approaches, in your class? Do you find any problems or do you have any good examples for us?

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After you finish this unit, you can move on to Unit Two-The discussion-based approaches to improving literary understanding or The discussion-based approach to improving literary understanding

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