| Body | This activity was designed for all levels of language learners. It guides them through five steps for reflection after speaking and celebrates learners’ strengths. It is particularly useful to implement after interpersonal practice or presentations.
Learning outcomes:
Learners will be able to:
- Identify strengths, opportunities for improvement, and questions after speaking
- Create visual reminders of strengths
Mode(s): Presentational and Interpersonal
Materials: Five Steps for Reflecting after Speaking video,  reflection template
Procedure:
- Watch Five Steps for Reflecting after Speaking.
- Ask learners to think about their last speaking interaction in the target language. Provide learners with the reflection template. Review the template using a Think, Pair, Share protocol. Learners should spend roughly minutes thinking/writing independently, five minutes sharing their responses with a peer, and five minutes discussing as a group.
- Provide learners with six note cards (or a digital platform like Google Jamboard). Ask that they write three strengths on the cards. They should write each strength twice. They will keep three of the cards to post as reminders in the location(s) in which they study (online, on the wall or mirror, or even in their notebooks).
- Learners will create a strength poster for the learning environment by affixing their cards to a bulletin board, adding them to a Google Jamboard, or affixing them to a piece of butcher paper.
- As a group, review the strengths that are listed. Star those which multiple learners have in common.
- Before speaking in the future, revisit the strength poster to remind learners of what they do well. Give them time to consider how they might utilize their strengths to keep improving in the target language.
- After speaking in the future, ask learners to update the poster with additional strengths.
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