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Task Planning & Think Time
Task planning can be as simple as giving the students a couple minutes after you assign the task. The think:
- What do I want to say?
- How am I going to say it?
And taking time for Task Planning can increase language complexity, fluency, accuracy (if you combine it with some FonF [Focus on Form] work) and vocabulary variety.
For a handout of techniques for Task Planning, especially how to add it to your textbook and worksheets, click: 10 Techniques for Task Planning.
One way to do task planning is to talk to yourself in English. This handout gives you easy ways to do just that.
One of the best and easiest ways to do task planning is to recycle activities: students do the same activity with new partners. Each time they do it is rehearsal for the next time. There is an article, One more time with feeling -- Bringing task recycling to the classroom, that suggests different "fluency frames" that make it easy to do that with nearly any topic.
Here's a version of the PowerPoint I did for a workshop I did for Language Teaching Professionals in Tokyo.
And here's a new section on "FonF (Focus on Form) and the Learning to ride a bicycle" . I added this an for ITEC workshop in Vietnam, Aug. 2014.
Finally, here's a PechaKucha presentation (20 slides x 20 seconds each) of me explaining Task Planning at the MASH Equinox conference.
- What do I want to say?
- How am I going to say it?
And taking time for Task Planning can increase language complexity, fluency, accuracy (if you combine it with some FonF [Focus on Form] work) and vocabulary variety.
For a handout of techniques for Task Planning, especially how to add it to your textbook and worksheets, click: 10 Techniques for Task Planning.
One way to do task planning is to talk to yourself in English. This handout gives you easy ways to do just that.
One of the best and easiest ways to do task planning is to recycle activities: students do the same activity with new partners. Each time they do it is rehearsal for the next time. There is an article, One more time with feeling -- Bringing task recycling to the classroom, that suggests different "fluency frames" that make it easy to do that with nearly any topic.
Here's a version of the PowerPoint I did for a workshop I did for Language Teaching Professionals in Tokyo.
And here's a new section on "FonF (Focus on Form) and the Learning to ride a bicycle" . I added this an for ITEC workshop in Vietnam, Aug. 2014.
Finally, here's a PechaKucha presentation (20 slides x 20 seconds each) of me explaining Task Planning at the MASH Equinox conference.