Community language learning, Task-based teaching, Content-based teaching

 

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We are starting the second period of this semester and I’m happy to share with you a little bit of the class we had on March 5^th and 7^th

 

On March 5^th we learned about three methods that have a collaborative approach which are the following:

1-      community language learning is the teaching method that emphasizes learning in a group that is like a tribe. In this method, learners rely on each other for support and create a sense of mutual learning. Additionally, this method doesn’t require preparation from the teacher, instead bringing a topic in the target language then students have a natural conversation and interaction, which is why this is more effective for students in intermediate and advanced levels, besides, the purpose is to acquire fluency.

2-      Task-based teaching focuses on planning, teamwork and requires a well-crafted project, also it requires more time than the community language learning due to the preparation of activities, for example, the presentations we had two weeks ago.

3-      In simple words, Content-based teaching is about teaching a foreign language by studying subjects such as science, social studies, math, geography, etc.

      On the other hand, as an example we made groups, we chose a leader who took notes of our mistakes, in our case, we chose Genesis, then teacher Orlando gave us controversial topics and we discussed about it.

On March 7^th we made had review about the previous session which was the collaborative approach and learned more about the activities of this method. Just to mention a few of them: pair groups of discussions, role plays like dramas, jigsaw activities, listening triangles, talk partners, think pair and share moving, and some others.

The activity that caught my attention was the jigsaw activity, which is about making groups, assigning them a task to collect information and then the students exchange the information.