1. Mind your CCQs… Emma Cresswell
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3. Finding out if a learner has understood a new item
What?
Concept Checking
Finding out if a learner has understood a new item

4. Why?
A way to check students have understood a concept before starting intensive practice of form or phonology.
Reduce Teacher Talk time
Allows for a more interactive class and less spoon-feeding

5. How? Normally achieved through a series of questions:
Ensure comprehension of TL
Raise awareness of problems
Often used in combination with other methods (often visual):
Lines (time/truth/reality)
Pictures
Negative checking
Elicit examples of the other methods – when? How?

6. How? How do we form concept check questions?
Think of a natural context for the TL
Write down what students need to know about the meaning of the exponents
Reduce these to the essential meaning and simplify into simple statements
Turn the statements into questions
Add further questions to check other things (if relevant)
Do activity!

7. Check your CCQs
One way to check your CCQs before you teach them is by seeing if you can identify the TL by only looking at the questions:
Lungs
Do you have two of these? YES
Are they inside your body? YES
Does air go through them? YES
(Vocabulary)

8. DOs & DON’Ts Have too many questions DON’T Repeat the TL in the CCQs
Use language simpler than the TL
Use yes/no questions & questions with one word answers
Prepare your CCQs in advance
Use a grammar book or student dictionary to research the meanings
Ask “What does x mean?”
DON’T
DON’T DO DO DO DO
DON’T

9. Things to remember:
Before Class: Plan your CCQs and put them in your LP with answers In Class: Make sure you introduce the new language in a clear context Use the context to elicit or to identify TL Use your CCQs to check understanding Listen to your students’ answers – if they don’t understand go back to the context After Class: Reflect on your CCQs – were they successful? What could you change?

10. Resources International House Buenos Aires Delta Module 2 notes