Review

Lesson 3: Designing Communicative Tasks

Introduction
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
- What is a Task?
- Design Principles
- Unsuccessful Tasks
- Analyzing Tasks
- Review and Reflect
Lesson 4
Conclusion
Portfolio
Resources

1. An information gap is a requirement of all communicative tasks.

True

False

2. Communicative tasks for beginners should be highly structured and relatively concrete.

True

False

3. "Linguistic support" refers to

vocabulary that a student is likely to need in order to perform the task.

grammatical structures that a student is likely to need in order to perform the task.

transcripts or models of the task performed successfully.

all of the above

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Reflect

Select an oral activity from a textbook and rate it (low, medium, high) in terms of linguistic complexity, communicative stress, and cognitive demands.>

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