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MODULE 9: PLANNING A PROJECT-BASED LESSON (Challenges (• Time consumption,…
MODULE 9: PLANNING A PROJECT-BASED LESSON
A project:
Allow Ss to choose a topic and the
direction of its investigation
Requires initiative, creativity and organizational skills
Provide solution to the problems
Essential components of a project
Types of projects in ELT
Encounter projects
Text projects
Class correspondence
Information survey and research
Production
Performance and organization
PBL Principles
Practical unit vocabulary, grammar, and integrated language skills
Real world connection
Organized contents
Joyful pictures/photos
Easy making
Creative ideas
Teamwork
Planning a
project-based lesson
Objectives: can-do statements
Driving questions: Open-ended, based on an authentic situation, feasible to measure
10 steps (Stoller, 1997)
Step 1: Students and instructor agree on a project
Step 2: Students and instructor determine the final outcome of the project
Step 3: Students and instructor structure the project
Step 4: Instructor prepares students for information gathering
Step 5: Students gather information
Step 6: Instructor prepares students for compiling and analysing data
Step 7: Students compile and analyse information
Step 8: Instructor prepares students for the final activity
Step 9: Students present the final product
Step 10: Students and teachers evaluate the project
Challenges
• Time consumption
• Great efforts in preparation
• Some requirements on resources
• Teachers’ difficulties in designing authentic projects, designing the criteria, and the driving
questions, providing accurate feedback, using IT to support
• Students’ difficulties in knowing the appropriate learning goals, making inquiries
systematically, managing time, collaborating
• Learners using their own language
• Some learners doing nothing
• Groups working at different speeds
