LESSON FORMAT: OBSERVE, ANALYZE, EXTEND
There are three essential stages in designing tasks for language learning: observation, analysis, and extension. Learners need to first observe and be aware of social practices, discourse and products relating to the community, then analyze artifacts that they observe and collect to understand and develop skills for the community, and finally extend and apply the skills they’ve observed and analyzed to meaningful contexts (Holden et al., 2019). Assessment should be based on the capacity of learners to move beyond collection of knowledge to appropriate extension and application of that knowledge.
References:
Holden, C.L., Knight, S., & Sykes, J.M. (2019). Communities: Exploring digital games and social networking. Engaging Language Learners through CALL, 10. 353-389.
