The Communication Mode:  Oral Proficiency

1.1:  Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.

1.3:  Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

1=Recall/Recognition            2=Explanation            3=Application            4=Evaluation            5=Synthesis

[* discussed in both texts]

Omaggio Hadley  (Ch.  6)

*1<      Three modes of communication ( National Standards)
1<      Interlanguage
1<      Fossilization
2<      Ellis' Variability Model
2<      Sources of errors (Selinker, 1972)
2<      Criteria for error correction (Walz, 1982)
2<      Procedures for giving feedback
3<      Hypothesis 1: Corollaries 1 (expressing own meaning), 2 (active interaction), and 3 (creative language practice)

Curtain & Dahlberg (Ch. 3 p. 50-71, 82; Ch. 4)

3<    Explain how TPR works and give an example
2<    Functional Chunks
2<    Passwords
2<    Language Ladders
3<    Gouin Series
4<    What is your professional (informed!) opinion about
3<    Give an example of a classroom activity that promotes the development of speaking competencies in the presentational mode.

2>  Describe different ways you can group or pair students for classroom activities/interaction
2<    What should you keep in  mind as you plan group/partner activities?

2<    After reading through the sample activities on p. 109-130, choose one type of interactive language task and design a classroom activity based on that model.