A language classroom should be filled with many different kinds of opportunities to practice language or deep learning is unlikely to occur. Here are some practical ways to provide a wide variety of practice for your students:
- Distinguishing minimal pairs
- Focusing on sounds, intonation, and stress
- Learning vocabulary on cards
- Re-arranging words in the right order to make sentences
- Getting feedback on errors
- Sentence combining and transformation
- Guided composition
- Dictation
- Listening for particular words or phrases
- Repetition and substitution drills
- Memorizing dialogues and poems
- Analysing cohesive devices
- Learning to guess from context clues
- Sentence-completion activities
[1] S., I, & Macalister, J. (2009). Language curriculum design. New York: Taylor & Francis.
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