Essential Conditions for Learning
Students need to be told what they are doing well and what they need to work on
Feedback
What I already know about any topic is called what?
Prior Knowledge
Common Core
This component of a lesson describes what the teacher will do
Procedure
This condition is based on the idea that the students need many chances to use the language in realistic contexts
Opportunity for use
This framework requires that teachers be ready to respond to what the students produce in the first activation
Boomerang
This stage can often occur as a link between linking sequences and is usually short
Engage
Students look at examples of invitations to identify the structure and purpose of an invitation.
Study focus
These skills are often focused earlier in a unit plan
Receptive
Keywords for this condition: Interest + Curiosity + Enthusiasm =
Motivation
This framework serves as a needs assessment
Boomerang
This stage focuses on language systems with us talking about the language instead of using the language
Study focus
Students listen to the teacher saying individual words and try to identify the stressed syllable of a word
Study practice
The four language systems are
Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation and Discourse
This condition is focused on students seeing/hearing or encountering language
Exposure
This framework attempts to replicate the natural learning process with stops and starts
Patchwork
This stage focuses primarily on meaning (with little consideration on form)
Activate
Students listen to telephone messages, take down notes, and give the messages to the recipients.
Activate
The 3 main aspects of a well-written lesson objective are:
Topic, skill and language (system)