Assignment: Using Texts in the Language Classroom
Aims:
• To demonstrate that you have a good awareness of the language features in the texts;
• To demonstrate that you are able to select interesting and appropriate texts for your Learners and that you have good ideas for using these texts in the classroom.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Choose two authentic written texts that you would like to use in the classroom with one specific group of learners. Two texts should be from a real life, not from any grammar or course book. Texts can be a fable, recipe, advertisement, from newspaper, journal, diary.
• Each authentic text should be of 500 words. (it does not come in 3000 words)
• Assignment is consisted of two parts, Part A and Part B
• Each part is consisted of 1500 words, which means whole assignments is of 3000 words, without references and appendices
• Give your assignment a suitable title. Use suitable subheadings.
• APA style should be followed
• Give references and "texts", " activities" references in brackets while incorporating with academic literature, for example (see Appendix
1) (see line 1, text 1), (see activity 1) etc
• Only references of last 5 years. No references of more than last 5 years.
PART A: Text analysis
To show you have a good awareness of the language features in the texts:
a. Identify the genre, field, mode and tenor features of each text.
b. Provide a detailed analysis, comparison and contrast of each text in terms of one of the following aspects of grammar:
•modality
•cohesion
•vocabulary: lexical relations
c. show the comparison and analysis of texts with help of table.
d. Genre has to be same of both the texts, but field, mode and tenor can be different.
f. word count of part A should be 1500 words.
PART B: Teaching
Show you are able to select interesting and appropriate texts for your learners, and that you have good ideas for using these texts in the classroom.
a. Briefly describe ONE group of learners for the two texts. Their level, age, time duration of the class. It should be atleast of 1:30 hour.
b. Explain why each text is interesting for this group of learners and describe the purpose for which you would use each text with your learners.
c. Describe very specifically how you would use each text in the classroom to teach your target learners.
d. explain how and why you will teach your lesson plan, by which teaching method, for example Task based Teaching method, PPP etc, with references of theories, research etc.
e. incorporate teaching with all four skills, i.e, reading, speaking, listening and writing.
f. there should be four activities , which involves four above mentioned skill. Each activity involving one particular skill. Integarate theories in your activities.
g. do not write lesson plan, write and attach in Appendix.
h. attach all four activities, lesson plan and both texts in Appendix.
i. word count of part B should be 1500 words.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.