Dr. Carl Blyth, Speaking Module Instructor
Lessons
- 1 Defining Communication
- Criteria to help beginning teachers distinguish "real" communication from "apparent" communication. Not all oral activities are created equal!
- 2 Challenges and Benefits of Communicative Tasks
- The pros and cons of communicative tasks according to beginning teachers. Bottom line: Communicative tasks are hard but worth the effort.
- 3 Designing Communicative Tasks
- Design principles for classroom tasks that get your students to talk to each other (in the target language).
- 4 Implementing Communicative Tasks
- The teacher's role in managing and guiding student-to-student communication.