PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
The aim of
this is to give students the opportunity to practice and extend their use of
language. Like for example we have new vocabulary, functional exponents, or grammatical structures and sub skills of reading. As in the TKT book (Bentley, 2010) it says that
controlled activities give students the represented practice in accuracy and the form of language and allow them to make few
mistakes. In this way teachers are teaching
students to use the form of their target language.
On the
other hand we have the use of free activities in which allow students to use whatever
language they would like to use at the moment to complete a task. It means that
it will be used only to develop their imagination and facilitate learning. Asia Citro, in
her book (150+ Screen-Free Activities
for Kids.) affirms
that “Children learn so much through activities that use their senses and move
their bodies. Because technology does not involve the use of several senses and
rarely involves full body movements, it limits learning.” From this point we
can notice that it is important to let learners to practice free activities but
taking into account that those should be movement activities that activate their
senses.
I consider that controlled activities provide students
the guidance and support they need when using language accurately abut free
activities provides less guidance and support to students when they use any
language.so it is not productive
for student’s acquisition.
Bibliography:
150+
Screen-Free Activities for Kids.
(s.f.).
Bentley, K. (2010).
The TKT Course CLIL Module. United
Kingdom.
Of course, controlled activities provide the right guidance students need, but you also have to use free activities to increase students`imagination.
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