Activity Analysis:  Meeting curriculum goals/needs
 

On a larger scale, cloze listening is adaptable to various aspects of the curriculum.  Indeed, the concepts contained within it can be used as a guide for students’ development.  The instructor can choose a graded and modular consideration of constraints on the lexical items in the clip:  aspects of speed, familiarity with vocabulary, distributional aspects of that vocabulary, individual ability to focus in on new and unknown material, expanding from word to phrase level.  All of these aspects are chosen according to the constraints of each individual student’s native language on the target language:  some aspects are similar and therefore very easily transferred, while others are more difficult.
 

Introduction – why analyze a technique / Temporal outline of the activity / Listening strategies / Providing context for practice and repetition / Choice of material / Group/individual aspects / Meeting curriculum needs/goals / What we can learn from this analysis – principles of classroom activities




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