dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 1 CEFR and ELP seminar (Skopje) ELP and action-oriented tasks Workshop 3

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 2 ELP and action-oriented tasks Introduction to the pedagogical function of the ELP –The ELP is designed to make the language learning process more transparent to the language learner to foster the development of learner autonomy Action-oriented.... ‘I can’.... –Learner has to do something (show some kind of an action) –Through carrying out tasks (CEFR:..any purposeful action considered by any individual as necessary in order to achieve a given result in the context of a problem to be solved, an obligation to fulfil or an objective to be achieved’ (CEFR, p.10)

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 3 ELP and action-oriented tasks Focusing on the dossier-part means more task-based language learning Because the result of the task (a product) can be admit to the dossier It shows what a learner is able to It makes clear that language learning is more than making exercises If possible these tasks are linked to the communicative situations in the portfolio (checklists)

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 4 ELP and action-oriented tasks Task communicationlearning reflection / evaluation

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 5 ELP and action-oriented tasks Task communication authentic learning pedagogic Reflection / evaluation meta-communicative

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 6 ELP and action-oriented tasks A authentic communicative task..... has a product at the end (What does the learner have to show at the end? is imaginable (in the short or in the longer term) is imaginable (in the short or in the longer term) fits into the world of the learner (is not hypothetical) should have an addressee: if this is clear, it supports the communicative approach is open in its structure, there are more solutions possible Steering through clear specifications( e.g. structure, content and quality) needs teamwork has as a goal or aim: developing competences

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 7 ELP and action-oriented tasks receptionproduction EPL, CEFR activities Communication themes/content Trigger texts Texts produced Interlocutors/participants in communication ELP, CEFR competences ELP, CEFR strategies plan of (inter)action Individual objectives ELP, CEFR criteria documentation Table - the communicative task

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 8 ELP and action-oriented tasks Table - the communicative task

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 9 ELP and action-oriented tasks Learning – pedagogical

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 10 ELP and action-oriented tasks Reflection / evaluation Necessary for the learning process Kind of ‘debriefing’ Appears in ELP in all kinds of formats

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 11 ELP and action-oriented tasks Points for consideration  relevance of the task for the learners  differentiation  incorporating the work on competences  implementing activities  checklist for lessons  autonomy  new educational and pedagogical challenges, action, interaction, co-construction, text  the task responds to the educational and documentational function: presentation of the ELP

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 12 ELP and action-oriented tasks Exchanging information Niveau A1Speaking 100 All FL Product: Video report with description of your place of residence and map Situation: As part of an exchanging project you will prepare your new roommate for what he/she can expect in his/her new (for the meantime) place of residence. Tip: - Use an online dictionary as Task: Make a video report on your place of residence. Film the nicest, most important and most boring spots and tell about them. Make a map and mark on the map the spots where you filmed.

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 13 ELP and action-oriented tasks Getting information from a newspaper Niveau A2Reading 60 All FL Niveau A2Listening 60 All FL Product: typed or printed summary of article from newspaper Situation: You want to go on holiday and you want to know what is going on in a particular country. Tip: Look for a website of a newspaper of a foreign country for example via Task: Look on the internet for a newspaper of your choice. Choose an article that might interest you. Look also for pictures etc. which might help you to understand the text. Print the text and underline the most important sentences. Write a summary in Dutch. Use the sentences you underlined. Other possibilities: Listen to the news on radio or television of the particular country and compare the information with what you read in the newspaper. You can find them also through internet.

dMe - Dick Meijer Talen Consultancy 14 ELP and action-oriented tasks Task Develop (in groups) a task like in the grid before Pay attention to: –Authenticy –Product (the output) –Communicative situation –Reflection / evaluation