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By Patricia Roldán Marcos and Loreli Mann, University of Oregon graduate students in the LTS program.

Objectives: 

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of three situational factors, i.e. social distance, power relationship, and degree of imposition.
• Students will be able to analyze how those elements influence request strategies used in a given situation.
• Students will be able to analyze and compare 2 videos in English as well as another one in their own language, extracting relevant information related to the three factors above and reaching conclusions.
• Students will be able to judge how a role play follows or doesn't follow the pragmatic rules in that context and results in a successful or unsuccessful interaction.
• Students will be able to produce a successful and an unsuccessful role play given a specific scenario and applying a choice of request strategies.

Resources and materials:

• Observation handout, Analysis handout, Extension scenarios, and Assessment, all found here in one file
• Video in L1: Volver (2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4tlj3O-Ns
• Videos in L2: The Cosby Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBXbRFo5UU
  • Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3CpATe7p4

Procedure & Notes: To see the procedure and notes, click [here].