taskification at upper level

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TASKIFICATION AT UPPER LEVEL

Aims & Objectives ¨  To raise awareness of

Task-Based Learning / Teaching methodology

¨  To explore the TBL/T framework through hands-on material

¨  To provide some theoretical grounding of TBL/T

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¨  Warm up ¨  TBL/T versus

PPP ¨  Experimentation

with taskification ¨  The TBL

framework ¨  Wrap up

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¨  Set up an individual list of arrangements you had to make to come to the ETD today.

¨  Compare + discuss it with your partner and decide which of the arrangements were easier to make than others and why.

¨  Report back + present your findings to the plenary.

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¨ Museum officials in Thailand have covered a billboard depicting Adolf Hitler saluting after complaints from the German and Israeli embassies.

¨ The advertisement, which reads in Thai, "Hitler is not dead," was set up on a main road out of Bangkok in October 2009.

¨  Group 1: ¡  You are the German ambassador in Thailand.

Discuss the billboard with your members of staff and write a letter of complaint (150 words). Present it.

¨  Group 2: ¡  You are the Israeli ambassador in Thailand. Discuss

the billboard with your members of staff and write a letter of complaint (150 words). Present it.

¨  Group 3: ¡  You are the director of the museum responsible for

setting up the billboard. Justify your decision with your members of staff and write a reply an apology (150 words). Present it.

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COMPLAINT

¨  Disrespectful ¨  Disturbing ¨  Dear Sir ¨  Yours sincerely ¨  Commercial ¨  Conscience ¨  Provocation ¨  I was disappointed to see ¨  Annoyed ¨  Furious ¨  Protest

APOLOGY

¨  I’m sorry ¨  I regret to ¨  Cause problems ¨  To make sure it will never

happen again ¨  Misunderstanding ¨  Inconvenient ¨  A mistake ¨  Regarding our

advertisement ¨  To be unaware of ¨  To apologise profusely

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PRE-TASK (1) TASK CYCLE (2)

¨  Introducing topic and task

¨  Clear purpose and intructions

¨  Recall useful vocabulary

¨  Group work: planning and preparation

¨  Reporting back and Presentation

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LANGUAGE FOCUS (3)

¨  Analysis, discussion ¨  Focus on form ¨  Pattern seeking ¨  Practice ¨  Input ¨  Review ¨  …….

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¨ The Bangkok Post newspaper quoted German Ambassador Hanns Schumacher as saying he told officials in Pattaya, “this kind of utterly tasteless advertisement would hurt the feelings of many people” and asked that the billboard be taken down.

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¨  Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Shoham also was quoted saying he requested the same. “It is totally unacceptable to have such a monster like Adolf Hitler on public display,” he told the Post. “How this could happen is beyond my understanding and comprehension.”

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¨  "We weren't showing his image to celebrate him," Mr Naksuetrong the director of the museum, told AFP.

¨  "We think he is an important historical figure, but in a horrible way. We apologise for causing any offense which was not at all intended. We did not realise it would make people so angry," he added.

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¨  The billboard was covered up after the museum received "a lot" of complaints, director Somporn Naksuetrong said.

¨  The series of highway advertisements featuring famous dead people promote Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in Pattaya.

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¨  It has to be recognised that the use of Nazi imagery has not got the same emotional impact in South East Asia as it does in Jerusalem and Berlin, in fact, the Thais have used swastikas, images of Hitler, and even allowed a Nazi Bar to be opened in Bangkok (the walls of which were adorned with pictures of storm troopers and waiters dressed in jack boots with Nazi armbands).

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PPP TBL

¨  Presentation ¨  Practice artificial language activities, e.g. gap-filling ¨  Production use language items correctly in a communication activity

¨  Pre-task model of activities ahead, topic, expectations ¨  Task All the language resources available ¨  Planning & Report ¨  Analysis ¨  Practice (reuse language)

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PPP TBL

¨  False impressions ¨  Overuse language

items, making language unnatural

¨  May not use newly acquired language items in final activity

¨  Free in how to use language

¨  Natural, relevant, personal context

¨  Higher exposure to other language items

¨  ‘satisfy the need’ ¨  Communicative ¨  Fun & motivating

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¨ http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/a-task-based-approach

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STARBUCKS’S  GUNS  AND  LATTES  POLICY  

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¨  Warmer: Show Starbucks mug & pictures of protests

¨  Read text and discuss controversy ¨  Students write a blog entry ¨  Read some blog entries posted on

www.guardian.co.uk (Richard Adam #18) ¨  Compare ¨  Focus on form: discuss language used for blogs

and formal writing ¨  Teacher provides language input ¨  Students write formal letter to the editor

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¨  Taskify

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¨  To develop the personality of the students through the experience of learning a foreign language

¨  To develop creativity,interpersonal, intercultural skills

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¨  1984 ¨  The Curious Incident of the dog … ¨  Homeless text

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A task is a piece of classroom work that involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the target language while their attention is focused on mobilizing their grammatical knowledge in order to express meaning, and in which the intention is to convey meaning rather than to manipulate form. The task should also have a sense of completeness, being able to stand alone as a communicative act in its own right with a beginning, a middle and an end. David Nunan, 2006

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“ tasks are activities where the target language is used by the learner for a communicative purpose in order to achieve an outcome” (Jane Willis, p. 23)

“Focus on form allows teachers and students to complete

interesting, motivating courses dealing with content they recognise as relevant to their needs while addressing language problems successfully.” (M.H. Long and J.M. Norris, in Byram, Encyclopaedia …, p. 599)

“A task is an activity which requires learners to use language,

with emphasis on meaning, to attain an objective, and which is intended to lead to or stimulate acquisition.” (Bygate, Skehan & Swain, 2001)

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