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Why is it that OFSTED reports comment so frequently on pupils' poor speaking skills and their failure to use language spontaneously and independently, despite the advent of the communicative approach to MFL teaching? Something to say? brings together key research findings with practical classroom projects to explore possible ways forward. It reviews current coursebook oral exercises and suggests that if pupils' competence is to be developed, they need to engage in more meaningful tasks: to have something that they genuinely want to say. These range from basic pairwork activities in the presentation and practice stages of a lesson, to problem-solving tasks at the end of a unit of work. The final chapter explores how everyday classroom routines can be exploited to generate pupil discussion as well an understanding of grammar. The book invites the teacher as well as his or her pupils to take the initiative. Each chapter is therefore self-contained, allowing teachers to select those which most meet their needs. This book has been adopted as a set book for the Open University Modern Languages PGCE. Contents Introduction | Why bother? | Starting out: presenting and practising new language | Some ideas for guided language production | Guided language production in action | Classroom routines and linguistic progression Explores new and more meaningful ways of providing opportunities for pupils to communicate in the foreign language in authentic contexts 2001 | 162pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-902031-86-6 | ISBN-10: 1-902031-86-5 | £18 | Order this title online |
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