I CAN USE Communication Strategies To Help Students Move to the Next Level: Building a Discourse Community by Lea Graner Kennedy https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys Which strategies are you using to encourage students to negotiate meaning while staying in the Target Language? Click on the plus sign and add a comment about something that is working with your students to encourage risk-taking in the Interpersonal Mode of Communication or a question about how to build a discourse community. en-us 2018-04-08 14:41:20 UTC 2018-04-12 20:36:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png Encouraging students to understand that errors are critical to move through the intermediate level of creating with language. LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249582745 2018-04-08 21:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249582745 I use pre-speaking, pre-listening and pre-writing activities so students are set up for success. LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249582868 2018-04-08 21:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249582868 I am giving students more conversational gambits and sentence starters. LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249583983 2018-04-08 21:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249583983 I am leading with FUNCTIONS and assessing proficiency by balancing- LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249585576 •Functions:  What student CAN DO- The most important part of the learning!!! 
•Text type: word, sentence, paragraph
•Accuracy:  grammar
•Content and Contexts
]]> 2018-04-08 21:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249585576 How can we help our perfectionists to stay in the TL when they are frustrated trying to negotiate meaning? LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249587116 2018-04-08 21:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/249587116 Transcripts https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250348773 I used the idea of having students write out a transcript of what they said so they recognize that they use English as a back-up. We can then discuss why and how they can work within French instead of jump to English.]]> 2018-04-10 16:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250348773 Pre/Post Conversations https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250353165 In the current unit, I asked students to chat (in level 4) about the topic. We recorded and assessed using the rubrics. We will do the same at the end so they can see improvement (or lack of it). If they don't improve, obviously I need to change the unit]]> 2018-04-10 16:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250353165 I used infographics to help the students extract main ideas and details from interpretive texts before pairing them to discuss the authentic resource. http://www.learnquebec.ca/documents/20181/66716/Focus.pdf/248c93f2-0d34-4c8a-9055-5f40f0ba65c8 LeaGK https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250480550 2018-04-10 20:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250480550 Authentic Video aemcpartland https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250882644 I found some You Tube videos related to our topic and asked students to see what they could understand before formal instruction began. They were engaged and more motivated to do the learning.]]> 2018-04-11 18:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/250882644 Proof for / against https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/251251114 I used this during our novel in the fifth level. It was really effective. We were able to discuss the book and stay in the TL without much difficulty. I could then check the students' worksheets to make sure they were following along / correcting their work.]]> 2018-04-12 16:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/251251114 I have done more vocab intro with authentic pictures and elicited more speaking from them https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/251357140 2018-04-12 20:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/LeaGK/xko110sq86ys/wish/251357140