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Didactic Activities (José Saldaña)
Didactic Activities
Concept of Didactic Activities
What didactic planning is?
It is the group of activities which the professor has to foresees, selects and organizes formal learning spaces with the aim to create better conditions to the achievement of foreseeing objectives.
Examples of Didactic Activities
Tongue twisters, practices, questionnaires, vocabularies, dictations, reviews and dialogues.
Activities for Higher Grades
Jokes
The airplane was only a few feet from the ground when it crashed, witnesses said.
A college friendship that began a year ago ended in matrimony yesterday.
Bartisms
I will not carve gods. I will not spank others. I will not aim for the head.
Activities for Basic General Education:
Rubber Band Activities
Give each student a rubber band. Have them stretch it to highlight word stress or vowel lengthening.
Shoe Box
Write the name of each student in the box or order students to write their own name in the box.
Birthday
Cover a box with a birthday topic within a box adds candies, stickers, and pretty pencils when some student births give it to her/his.
Guessing
Put a chalk, a pencil, a pen, and other articles within a box. Cover child’s eyes, he or she introduce his/her hand in the box and choose one object. If she or he does not guess the object, any person describes the object and if the thing do not has been guessing other person can guess it.
Readings
Lip Reading Activities for Pronunciation
The teacher can model this in front of the class and then let students work in pairs.
A Reading Activity
Look for an interesting soap opera, movie, newspaper or magazine and assign a reading. Students will be interested in read if the material is adapted for their interests, they will practice reading, listening, speaking and pronunciation.
Language Analysis
Listen to authentic language to determine rules for sentence stress.
Listen to interviews to determine rules for intonation.
Practices, Questionnaires, Vocabularies, Dictations, Reviews .
Read Type Dictations Design
Step 1: Get a copy of the dictation exercise for each student. You can have the students write directly in the blanks or if the materials are not consumable, you can have the students number the blanks and write the answer on a separate sheet.
Step 2: (Optional) Tape-record the dictation exercise at normal speed with a brief pause after each sentence. (The advantage of tape recording the exercise is that students will not ask to slow it down or to repeat a word as readily.)
Step 3: (Optional) Make an overhead transparency of the dictation exercise with the blanks filled in.
Teaching
Step 1: Hand out the dictation sheet.
Step 2: Play the tape or read the passage at normal speed with a pause after each sentence allowing the students to write in the missing words.
Step 3: Present the overhead transparency or write the correct answers for each blank on the board. Let the students check their work.
Application
Practices are an important part of teaching, teaching has some parts as presentation, explanation, application and revision. This ones form part of the application process, they help to strengthen the knowledge that teacher is giving.
Analysis
How Vocabularies are Teaching
Vocabularies must be taught within a context not as isolated words, they also must be followed by images.
Recommendations
Questionnaires Recommendations
It makes suggestions regarding questioning techniques that are appropriate for lecture classes as well as for discussion groups.
What are some things that you can do when asked a question other than directly answering it?
Repeat the question, paraphrasing it.
Redirect the question.
Ask probing questions.
Dialogues, Plays, Speeches, Panels
Design
Dialog Design (Purposes)
First, it will provide the student with a bit of language that will help him/her perform in a particular setting (writing a check, buying a stamp, etc.).
The second purpose of the dialog is to introduce certain high-frequency patterns of the language which will be practiced further in the dialog expansion activities.
Preparation
Step 1: Think about the kind of situation you want the students to enact after they have finished the dialog. Be as specific as possible. You might imagine a student introducing a friend during a break.
Step 2: Break the dialog into pairs of lines or exchanges (these we will call cycles) and personalize it.
If you want the students to be able to enact the dialog or parts of it, it is best to break it down and personalize it, i.e.
Step 3: Write the dialog on a 3" x 5" card. It is necessary for the teacher to be able to walk around and listen to and interact with each student.
Teaching
Step 1: Explain to the students using pictures, gestures, their native language, or whatever means necessary the context and purpose of the dialog.
Step 2: Enact the first line of the dialog as you say it and have students listen. (Repeat several times).
Step 3: Have students repeat in chorus after teacher until their pronunciation is fairly accurate.
Application
Games are a very funny didactic activity; it is possible to strengthen creativeness, listening and speaking skills in a funny and easy way meanwhile students have fun.
Analysis
Panels are considered as a dynamic activity where students develop different skills such as improving speaking, and increasing teamwork.
Recommendations
Speeches Recommendations
The purpose of a speech is to clarify or to give information to a large group in a short period of time. Speech requires a great deal of preparation time and need to be supported by audio-visuals aids.
Murals, Albums, Illustrations, Homework, Songs.
Design
Rhyme is an activity used for lower grades. Students will practice pronunciation with this activity.
Practice Rhyme
All Students read Aloud the Rhyme.
Analysis
Murals and Homework
Murals help to develop student’s creativity. Murals should have a topic with a variety of sub-levels, should be interesting, and should call attention. They must have illustrations if the topic requires it.
Recommendations
Sing or listen to Songs
Songs can be used for a lot of purposes: linking and blending; reductions; word and sentence stress.
Use quarter notes and eight notes to get across the concept of word stress and reductions. Use notation to show pitch/intonation change in sentences.
Puzzle for Song
these can be done in big construction paper pieces (whole class) or using small paper strips (pair work/teamwork). You can scramble: stanzas, lines or words.