1. CLIC Summer Workshop for L2 Teachers, August 12–13, 2016
Instructional phases to teach how to do things with words: The case of requests
Katharina Kley
CLIC Summer Workshop for L2 Teachers, August 12–13, 2016

2. Outline
Instructional phases to teach interactional competence (Betz & Huth, 2014)
Example lesson: Making requests in German
Task development activity based on Betz & Huth’s (2014) instructional phases

3. Instructional Phases
Reflection on how language in action works
Contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 structures
Analysis of L2 structures
Practice in speaking and writing
Translingual/ transcultural discussion and reflection
From: Betz, E. & Huth,T. (2014). Beyond grammar: Teaching interaction
in the German language classroom. Unterrichtspraxis, 47(2), 140–163.

4. What you need to create a lesson
native language data
target language data
Natural interactional language data that includes the learning target
own observations
conversation analytic studies
An understanding of how the learning target “works” in the native and in the target language

5. Sample lesson on requests
Handout: Sample lesson plan CLIC’s “Bridging Research and Practice” website:

6. Task development activity: compliments
Find one or two partners and select one instructional phase.
For the phase that you selected, create one or two tasks (including instructions) on ‘responding to compliments’ in German.
Use the Handout where conversation analytic findings on German and American English compliments as well as authentic compliments in German and American English are provided.
Present your task(s) to the whole group.

7. Thank you! Questions? katharina.kley@rice.edu