| Body | This activity was created for Advanced language learners. Its purpose is to engage and support learners in considering how to repair miscommunication in the target language.
Learning Outcomes:
Learners will be able to:
- Brainstorm language strategies for repairing miscommunication
- Analyze target language samples to identify strategies for repairing miscommunication
Mode(s): All
Materials: Advanced proficiency overview video, digital discussion board
Procedure:
- Have learners watch the Advanced proficiency overview video.
- As part of a class discussion, ask learners to share a time in which they experienced miscommunication (in the target language or in another language). Learners may offer examples of any type of miscommunication (e.g., unintentionally offending someone or using a target utterance incorrectly).
- Pick three or four situations that the learners brainstormed and discuss strategies to repair the miscommunication as a class. Some strategies may include apologizing, explaining what happened, justifying one's choices, and appropriating responsibility.
- Ask learners to investigate one situation from Step 3 and to find two target language examples of repair in practice. Remind them to search in the target language.
- Learners should post their examples along with explanations of the repair strategies to a discussion board or other shared, digital space.
- In either a synchronous or asynchronous discussion, ask learners to review some of the samples posted and identify what they have learned about nuances and expectations related to repair in the target language.
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