Drawbacks & Solutions by Melinda Dooly https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5 Creative minds working together ... en-us 2017-10-03 12:27:28 UTC 2025-09-30 09:48:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Drawback: No grammar is taught. Little or no writing/reading focus. https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196075864
  • Using communicative games to introduce grammar. The goose game: In each box students will have an instruction. You have to explain something using this word.: e.g; went, will, going, etc.  Explain to your classmates what you will do tomorrow. (trying to contextualize the game)
  • Reading corner. By groups they have a book and have to read it to the others. Then they must talk about it: What happens? Giving the opinion: I think, I like…
  • Write messages or letters to each other (between classmates)

    • ]]>     2017-10-11 15:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196075864     Drawback: Hard to assess progress (Mar, Anaïs and Tanit) https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076025
    • Create rubrics (negotiating the criteria, so they also practise speaking)
    • Self-recording: sending it to the teacher, self-assessment, at 3 different moments (to check the progress)
    • By a given video/audio, in which a person gives an opinion or talks about a topic, the students will have to give their own opinions (orally or written) giving justified reasons no matter if they agree or disagree. 
    ]]>     2017-10-11 15:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076025     Difficulties in classroom managment (noise-level, off-task distractions...)? https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076193 Use of vocabulary, expressions or specific teaching strategies to manage the classroom to keep students’ attention. 
    For instance, if you want to draw kids attention the teacher would say some words in the target language and students have to answer the teacher according to the word the teacher has said. 

    Helena Sansa, Aida Perez, Andrea Walther, Mireia Artero ]]>     2017-10-11 15:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076193     Drawback https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076201 "Lack of strategies for dealing with mistakes (does “authentic use” mean “anything goes”)? "

    • Solution: 
    - Give them some previous scaffolding (some structures, vocabulary, wider the repertoire...) 
    - Oral corrections while they are talking (occasionally)
    - Reformulation 
    - To find the common mistakes and reinforce them through structure or vocabulary games

    ]]>     2017-10-11 15:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076201     Cultural/personal differences between approach & learning style/tastes (Magnus, Carla Moreno and Anna Martín Ribot) https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076289
    Agree on some linguistic/communicative aspects that need to be covered during the activities and find different ways to apply them taking into account the different learning styles present in the classroom.
    For instance, teachers should agree on how which grammar forms students should learn and find different ways to work on those by designing a wide array of tasks and assignments and make them learn from the mistakes they make when doing these activities.
    Furthermore, teachers should keep in mind that CLT should be adapted to each context and that they should always try to solve these differences by thinking on what will most beneficial for learners. ]]>     2017-10-11 15:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076289     Lack of proficiency (communicative skills) of target language of both teachers and students https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076426 On the one hand, the head teacher must ensure a good communicative competence of the school teachers. Moreover, educational centers should promote training for teachers in order to improve their communicative skills in target language. 
    On the other hand, a high communicative level is not required for CLT students as the purpose of CLT is precisely the acquisition of proficient level of target language.]]>     2017-10-11 15:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196076426     Drawback: it is hard to implement in some classes (too large groups, not enough resources...) and to promote communicative skills. (Durga Compte, Laura Hernández, Marta Puig https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196077166 Things to consider: first of all, we should analyse the classroom space in order to know how students work, their level, and the different possibilities and limitations you may find. For too large classes you can make turns in using resources, make groups and later switch tasks. Co-teaching is also a good possibility. To enhance communicative skills, groupwork can be promoted, where students carry out tasks with a real purpose and a real target. Finally, for students with different levels, they can work in tandems so they help each other.]]> 2017-10-11 15:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdooly/5azu57qqfut5/wish/196077166