Unit 17

Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development

 There are activities and tasks designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extend the use of language, for example: new vocabulary, functional exponents/grammatical structures, or of the sub-skills of reading, listening, speaking or writing.

  Moreover, we have some characteristics such as: Learners can only use certain items of language. Accuracy is focused like in a gap-fill exercise, drills, copying words or sentences, dictation and reading aloud.

  On the other hand, some activities can differ in the skill/subskill they focus on, what type they are, and what interaction patterns they use for instance in multiple-choice questions for reading or grammar activities, individually or in pairs.

  Finally, I found that information-gap activities or communicative activities involve learners talking to one another to exchange information they don’t know. They talk to communicate, not just to practice language.

As conclusion an activity may focus on accuracy or communication depending on how it is introduced.

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