2010.10.11
Blog Activity
1. Objectives- Students will be able to write correct form of descriptive adjectives and adverbs when describing a picture.
2. Student – 13~16, Middle school students, High intermediate
3. Activity Location- Home, school lab, Anywhere but in actual learning class
4. Overview of the activity- Students will describe a picture of historical event by using as many adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions as possible. Also, they will give peers error correction if they have made one. The students will be separated into 5 groups and each group will have 5~6 people. In groups, the students will give each other grammatical or just simple responsive feedback. They will negotiate meaning by posting reply under the friend’s posts. The teacher can also leave a feedback under the students who seem confused or mislead.
5. Guiding SLA theory- Multimedia theory (Teachers use pictures to prompt the students to write and the other students can compare peers descriptions and the actual picture: having both visual and written statement.) Interaction hypothesis (Students give feedbacks to each other and when there are conversation break downs, negotiation of meaning happens.)
6. CALL context – Through computer they will communicate with their friends on blog, They will also work around the computer when they are working in a school lab
7. Students / computer ratio- It will be one on one
8. Technology difficulty level (do Ss have experience with the technology? How long will it take them to learn about the tech?)- Some students may already have experience with their own personal blogs some may don’t have experience. The teacher will give a brief tutorial lecture on blog in class. The teacher will use the class blog that almost every student is well aware of.
9. Students’ Instructions- You are going to write a brief description about the pictures that the teacher upload every week. Please try to log on to our class blog every week. You will work as a group so 5~6 people will work together. Each of you have to describe a picture in 3~4 sentences. MUST use the descriptive words we have learned in class. After you have finished your posting take a look at you group members’ posting and leave at least one reply. If can be an agreement, disagreement or a correction their mistake.
10. Examples of input / output / collaboration, etc. – Teacher will give different set of pictures like this to different group. The historical picture will be the input that the students get. The students will try to describe picture in several sentences using at least 4 different descriptive words; adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and etc. The students will try to help each other by giving corrections on peers’ error. They will work in groups so peer feedback they should give out will be only 4~5. Including what they have to produce they will have 5~6 chances to make production. If the student accept peer’s feedback and make a correction they can have more. The teacher will also be the source of collaboration by helping them out when they look confused from reading the blog postings.
<Pictures of historical event>
11. Examples – students’ product
S1: The wall looks very messy. The men will hit the wall heavy. It is very rainy day.
→S2: You mean heavily?
→S1: What?
→S3: She means you should say “The men will hit the wall heavily”.
→S1: Oh, I see. J
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