Unit 17 practice activities and tasks for language skills development

      These are activities and tasks designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language such as functional exponents or grammatical structures or the subskills of reading, listening, speaking or writing. There are three kinds of activities that give learners the opportunity to use language. First, the controlled/restricted practice which learner can only use certain items of language. Also they focus on the form of the language. they practice accuracy, too. Used mostly to guide students in using the form of target language, drills, choral drills, individual drills are some examples.. Second, the less controlled/freer practice activity is an activity in which learners have some choice over what language they use. These activities allow the teacher predict what language the students will need to use. For example, role plays and information gap activities. Third, the free activity which gives students the opportunity  on communicating. These activities focus on fluency, giving students practice in recalling language. Also, they have the opportunity to interact. Finally, as a future teacher to make students do activities I need to focus on the students’ needs and preferences. Taking into account that I have to find some interesting and motivating activities by adding variety to them. As a conclusion, students have different needs when learning and it’s really important to select activities for practicing and developing language which must develop skills.

For further information:

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• ·         Constantinides, V. (2013). Freer Practice: Ways of Getting Ss to Use Target Language - an #ELTchat Summary 16/10/2013. ELTchat. Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://eltchat.org/wordpress/summary/freer-practice-ways-of-getting-ss-to-use-target-language-an-eltchat-summary-16102013/
• ·         TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC,. (2014). Controlled practice. Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/knowledge-database/controlled-practice