What counts as communication in the L2 classroom?

1. Shona Whyte
Communicative
context MEEF English
December 2014

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5. Communication in L2
1. what counts as communication in L2?
2. authenticity
3. use of L1
4. designing and implementing communicative activities
5. is a student presentation a communicative activity?
6. teacher and learner roles

6. Right or wrong? Explain your answer :-)
1. hy-PO-the-sis, pro-NOUN-ci-a-tion
2. Did you hear which college is it?
3. Ask the question to Pauline. Ask five questions to your neighbour.
4. Everybody has copied this down?
5. Make them listen (= faire écouter) => have them listen
6. The final syllable of coffee and cookie is /i/ (high front tense
vowel) and not /ɪ/ (high front lax vowel)
7. The goal is to make them listen.

7. Examples: different contexts, different learners
❖ drumming (Robert Duke)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ODfUcc-0YLY
❖ story retell (Two Monsters)
http://unt.unice.fr/uoh/
learn_teach_FL/
They’re engaged in an
honest-to-God music-making
experience and
the lesson is eleven
minutes old. That’s a
very simple task but in
that small task I am able
to convey all the things
that are most important
about music-making.