Communicative needs
What communication form do we have when a class works together on an assignment where they talk to each other in their interlanguage instead of answering the teachers questions on the board?
Real communicative need
What type of assignment is the refrigerator task?
Problem solving assignment
Besides from the natural og diverse communication what other benefit does the refrigerator assignment have?
Social relations
What do the communicative skills depend on?
The communicative practise with a certain class
Should the main focus of the tasks be on the language or the content?
The content
Why is the real communicative need better than answering questions in plenum?
You get a more natural flow and a purpose of your speech
How do you define a problem solving assignment?
A task where all the participant have the same information and where there are only one correct answer
What are some of the language function the students use in the camera assignment?
Instruction, warning, confirmation, statement, asking, request, support
What should the situations of which we communicate always be in relation to?
How we are going to use them in the real world (jobs)
How does the learner learn the inter language?
By interacting with others, by testing hypothesis, by adjusting the grammatical errors
What different types of learning do we see in the task?
Reading, working together, speaking
What are some of the cons of the problem solving assignment?
Clever students can solve them without communicating with anyone
What types of tasks could you use to make all the students participate in the communicative aspects of the assignment?
jigsaw or information gap