Investigation B
- Choose an aspect of English language – fluency, accuracy, or complexity – that you want one or more of your students to develop further.
- State the evidence that leads you to believe your student/s need to develop this aspect of their English.
- Use the information in the table in the associated material Characteristics of language-learning tasks to devise a relevant, curriculum-related learning task that will promote that aspect of language.
- As the students complete the learning task (and again later, as they complete other similar learning tasks), monitor their progress in the target aspect of English and provide explicit teaching when appropriate.
Questions to ask yourself:
- Do you see an improvement in the students’ performance?
- Can you attribute the change to the kinds of tasks they have completed?
- Can you attribute the change to any particular characteristic of the tasks they have completed?
