Learning Experience Overview
The ideas below are options, but it is not a complete list.
- Worksheets
- Teachers should use textbook/workbook exercises to practice and reinforce principles being taught in class. These exercises typically practice the form of the grammar in controlled/isolated contexts.
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- Controlled use practice
- Using partners and groups, practice using the grammar to accomplish a specific task. These learning experiences should begin with a lot of support and slowly decrease the amount of provided scaffolding to allow the students to use the language in authentic ways.
- DWCF
- Principles of dynamic written corrective feedback as outlined in Hartshorn (2008) and Eddington (2014) can be used to help students recognize and correct recurring errors. Students write under a time constraint and receive coded feedback on the errors. The students then make the necessary corrections until the paragraph is error-free. Early drafts of DWCF work would be learning experience grades, not proficiency. It is at the teacher’s discretion how many drafts are required.
- DWCF and EFCR is often best applied when used in collaboration with a writing teacher’s assignment or a project. Students are most likely to be engaged in the revision process and coding when they see a direct relevance to another assignment.
- Portfolios
- Portfolios show a student’s progress over the course of the semester in creating with the language and responding to feedback. A portfolio should include multiple drafts of a writing sample or project, a reflection log of the experience, and any other targeted measure of growth that the student observes during the semester.
