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7/30/2019 Conversation Assessments (2)- Groups 1, 2 and 3 Sec. 201 (Sem. 331)
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CONVERSATION ASSESSMENTS
“Social Language”
Communication Skills 003, Sec. 201 (Groups 1, 2 and 3)
Semester 331 - 27 November 2012
Instructor: Shelia Ann Peace
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GOAL
Communicative Competence: The ability to give and receive
information in English.
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PARTICIPANTS
Students: Saudi Arabian females, Arabic “mother tongue,”
English “Prep Year” Program.
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METHODOLOGY
Mixed-ability low beginner- to high-beginner students are taughtlanguage for personal introductions using role-play: script (lexis
input, speaking, exhibition of comprehension).
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EXPANSION
Students “personalize” new language with pairwork composition of
original dialogue for personal introductions. Dialogues areperformed before classmates (speaking/listening for
comprehension, information exchange practice).
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METHODOLOGY
Students learn language for business (requesting/giving personal
information – name, age, occupation, residence, neighborhood)using role-play: script (lexis input, speaking, exhibition of
comprehension).
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EXPANSION
Students “personalize” new language with pairwork composition
of original dialogue for business (requesting/giving personalinformation – name, age, occupation, family information, residence,
neighborhood).
Shelia Ann Peace
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METHODOLOGY
Students learn to talk about their - and others’ - hobbies andlikes/dislikes using selected worksheets for: vocabulary,
language, sentence structure, questions/answers.
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PRODUCTION
Students show comprehension of language and sentence
structure for hobbies and likes/dislikes by answering questionsabout individual hobbies and likes/dislikes; and, further, asking
questions about individual hobbies and likes/dislikes.
This marks the beginning of focused CONVERSATION ACTIVITY.
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METHODOLOGY
Selected worksheets teach:
Vocabulary Language
Sentence structure
Grammar
Writing
gap-fills
completing sentences
completing paragraphs.
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EXPANSION
Students show comprehension of concepts by developingPresentations on assigned topics (speech with visual support,
and/or demonstration).
Implicit Learning:
Throughout this development phase there is discussion of language and concepts requiring expanding conversational abilities
(understanding and relating ideas) in English.
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RESULTS
The remaining slides contain “representative” product of ConversationAssessments: “Social Language” administered 27 November 2012.
These Conversation Assessments of “Prep Year” Communication Skills
Students (Levels I and II) was inserted into the curriculum by this _._._.instructor from Summer, 2011. “Native Speakers” and/or fluent “English
speakers” (volunteering _._._. English Instructors) act as interlocutors:
guiding and eliciting English for conversation on selected topics.
This instructor developed these assessments as: exhibition of skills
consolidation; and , examination of students’ listening and speakingskills. They require application of “critical thinking”: as students are
having “first contact” with interlocutors -- whose phraseology and style(s) of
speaking are completely new to them.
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Interlocutors: Mrs. Tita Y-------
Dr. Jeanneth V-------
Group 1
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Interlocutors: Mrs. Tita Y-------
Dr. Jeanneth V-------
Group 2
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Interlocutors: Mrs. Tita Y-------
Dr. Jeanneth V-------
Group 3
Taught by:Shelia Ann Peace
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THANK YOU
for Listening!
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CONVERSATION ASSESSMENTS
“Social Language”
Communication Skills 003, Sec. 201 (Groups 1, 2 and 3)
Semester 331 - 27 November 2012
Instructor: Shelia Ann Peace
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