1. What is the meaning of the abbreviation PFPD in the article?
Professional Development Program
What kind of axes does the institutional project consider?
1.cognitive development,
2.self-action,
3.education in values
Which level students were chosen to perform the research? And tell the number of them!
Intermediate and Advanced levels
Advanced-35. Intermediate-33. Overall -68 students
" Teachers need to try and actively generate positive students' attitudes towards learning."
Whose viewpoint these above mentioned sentence?
Dornyei(2001)
How long had the execution of the project prolonged?
It took 6 months
6."Warm up activities are designed to attract students' attention, to help them put aside distracting thoughts and to get them ready to focus individually and as groups on whatever activities they follow."
These above mentioned view belongs to : ........
Allwright (1984)
What sort of students were involved during the research and what do you know about their age and grade?
They were 12 and 15 years old ( 7th grade) and did not participate a lot in class.
How many stages of lesson plan did Kay (1995) describe and what are they?
Warm up
presentation
practice
application
assessment
Who did mention about the importance of "motivational flow" ?
Dornyei(2001)
Can you tell us Cardinas's(2001) viewpoint about students' learning ?
" Students learn best when they can address knowledge in ways that they trust ."
11.Which aspects should be considered in warm up activities according to the author of the article?
What kind of model did they decide to follow in research?
Kemmis and Mc Taggart's model
13.Whose suggestions were basic for the observation?
Nunan(1989)
14.Could you count the 4 main categories which were collected at the end of the research?
1.Strengthening knowledge about language
2.Students' involvement
3.Interaction
4.Values
What are the important achievements of warming up activities?
1.Students' attention
2. Students' participation