| Body | From http://www.path2proficiency.com/
John Cadena finds that interpersonal tasks are easy to design at the Novice Low and Novice Mid levels, but more difficult at the Novice High level and above. Students are beyond talking about their names, likes, and dislikes, but talking about other things may not be engaging. Here’s an example of a new interpersonal task he tried: “In [a] unit on obentou, I showed my students pictures of three different packed lunches, and asked them to decide which one would best accompany the article we were about to read, based solely on the title. These kinds of open-ended interpersonal tasks … lack a “true”/right answer, and I think it’s that sense of freedom that opens up more natural and authentic interpersonal communication. Even when my students’ structures broke down or they resorted to using more Novice-level language we had learned in previous years, the fact that they had to connect evidence from an external source to build and give an opinion meant that they were connecting thoughts and sentences in a way that sounded more like Intermediate-level conversation.”
Read the full blog post at http://www.path2proficiency.com/understanding-interpersonal-mode-at-the-intermediate-level/
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