creating communicative activities
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CREATING COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR TECHNICAL ENGLISH LEARNERS
IATET Webinar 27.06.2012 – Claire Hart
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Communicative activities
The Cinderella of technical English?
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Five Steps
1. Communicative event analysis
2. Communicative event selection
3. Language
input
4. Student-driven simulation
5. Feedback/ post-task
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1. Communicative event analysis
What do you...? Who do you...? How often do you...? Why do you...? What´s your role...?
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What...? Explain how to process a contractWho...? Colleagues from home & abroadHow often...? About once a monthWhy...? Processing is always done in EnglishYour role...? Trainer/ guide
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Manfred the milling shop manager Has contact with: other managers in his department colleagues in other countries suppliers from other countries customers in other countries
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2. Prioritising communicative events What factor should impact the most
when we prioritise communicative events?
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3. Language input
Making a phone call to a supplier
1. Asking for information
2. Making requests
3. Negotiating
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3. Language Input
Taking part in an international meeting
Active listening
Making suggestions
Talking about the future
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4. Student-driven simulation
RELEVANT
ALERTAWARE
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5. Feedback / post-task
How do you do feedback? Have you tried?• Recording the learners or having them
record themselves?• Using Jing to give video feedback?http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html