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Title | Government Assistance Programs |
Body | Stephanie Knight is the Language Technology Specialist for CASLS at the University of Oregon. This activity was developed in order to meet the needs students in her International Diploma Programme Spanish course. This activity aims at developing critical thinking, critical reading, and presentational writing skills. It is appropriate for intermediate-low, intermediate-mid, and intermediate-high students and is designed to go along with this week’s Topic of the Week focusing on activating prior knowledge and building schemata to understand unknown content. In completing this activity, students are engaged in listening, reading, and speaking skills and will consider the positive and negative characteristics of Oportunidades, an anti-poverty program in Mexico. Modes: Interpretive reading, presentational writing, interpersonal speaking Objectives:
Resources: Procedure for teacher, Spanish article and student handout in Spanish (an English versions of the activity and of the article are included, but the article is not the same as the Spanish version). Procedure: Download the procedure here. Notes: This activity is easily adaptable to different proficiency levels given choice of vocabulary, choice of text, and post-reading activities. Make sure to use some cognates and shorter texts for students with lower proficiency levels. Students at higher proficiency levels can have texts of considerable length, though it is important to choose vocabulary that would activate some prior knowledge (root words or linguistic patterns, for example). Also, depending on the text that is used, it may be better to complete this activity with one section of the text only. |
Source | CASLS Activity of the Week |
Inputdate | 2015-08-17 08:17:14 |
Lastmodifieddate | 2015-10-05 03:25:51 |
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Publishdate | 2015-10-05 02:15:01 |
Displaydate | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 |
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