PD- Module 1: Core Practices

Student target language use should be 90% in every level.

Teacher target language use should be 90% at every level.

Student target language use should increase toward 90% each level.

Teacher can translate for students to English when they do not understand what is being communicated.

Teacher should encourage accuracy when students are trying to use the TL in class.

Teacher should maintain 90% over the course of the week or two.

Negotiation of meaning is needed requiring that the speaker and listener ask for clarification, confirm understanding and make interjections.

Pre reading or active reading strategies are required.

Sometimes the authentic texts available change the essential question and the thematic focus.

The information exchanged between two people should have a purpose and used for a task after the exchange in order to be a communicative task.

Students make inferences about the culture.

Mastery of a grammar structure at the end of a level is a grammar goal of the core practice.

First the theme and then the essential question are decided.

Research supports that overt correction creates a comfortable and safe environment for students to use the TL.