LESLLA Symposium 2011Rhonda Petree and Lisa Gonsalezrhondapetree@uwalumni.comPragmatics Instruction for Low-Level Adult ELLS

L2 Pragmatics Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Objective: (consider the social/cultural or linguistic goals of your lesson)

Warm-up: (questions, sound clip, video clip, print source)

Pre-teach vocabulary:

Presentation of material for analysis: (sound or video clip, print source)

Discuss language analysis questions:

Explicit Instruction on linguistic forms and meaning:

Controlled practice/semi-controlled practice: (reading conversations, matching activities, cloze activities, putting conversations into correct order)

Communicative/independent practice: (role plays, writing dialogs)

Resources

Bardovi-Harlig, K., & Mahan-Taylor, R. (2003). Teaching pragmatics. Washington, DC: United States Department of State. http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/resforteach/pragmatics.html

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. http://www.carla.umn.edu/speechacts/index.html

Eslami-Rasekh, Z. (2005). Raising the pragmatic awareness of language learners. ELT Journal, 59 (3).

Yates, L. (2004). The ‘secret rules of language’: Tackling pragmatics in the classroom. Prospect, 19(1), 3-22.