Stay in the target language How do students

Stay in the target language ³ ³ How do students stay in the target language ? ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) recommends that language educators and their students use the target language as exclusively as possible (90%) at all levels of instruction during instructional time and when feasible, beyond the classroom. 1) Provide comprehensible input 2) Make meaning clear through body language, gestures, and visual support 3) Check understanding 4) Challenges

Comprehensible Input ³ Comprehensible input means that students should be able to understand the essence of what is being said or presented to them. ³ By using context or visual cues, or by asking for clarification, students enhance their knowledge of Chinese. When input is comprehensible, students understand most aspects of what is required for learning, and the learning experience pushes them to greater understanding. ³ By providing rich contexts, props, visual aids, hands-on experiences

Setting 1 Context: You are a Chinese student. Your Chinese teacher Yu Lǎoshī announces the beginning of the class. Your Reaction ?

Setting 2: Correct or Not? DOG!

Setting 3: Correct or Not? DOG!

Setting 4: Classroom Instruction ³ Context: You are a Chinese student. Please follow the instruction of Your Chinese teacher Yu Lǎoshī. ³ Your Reaction ?

Setting 5: Classroom ³ ³ When your Chinese teacher wants you to follow her speaking, what will she say? When your Chinese teacher wants you to repeat what you said, what will she say?

情景教学：Digital story-based Comprehensible Input

To set up the context, you need to consider 01 Time 02 Place 03 Roles “The purpose of the Performance-Based Pedagogy is to train the language learners to become the player of other culture” (Walker & Noda, 2000) 04 Scripts 05 Audience

ACTFL Integrated Performance Assessment

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