Chapter 6 Oracy Instruction That Builds on the First Language

I was really interested in the part of “Authentic task in and out of the real world” I think we, all remember the video clip for Spanish conversational online activity we watched at CALL class. The students can obtain many opportunities and skills through this authentic task such as,

First, learners have opportunities to interact socially and negotiate meaning. Interaction is very important factor to learn other languages.

Second, learners interact in the target language with an authentic audience. It is hard to use a computer for studying by themselves. The teacher help them paying attention to become an authentic audience. There are a lot of entertainments on computer, how do we let students focus on the learning program?

Third, learners are involved in authentic tasks. For our purpose, an authentic task is one that learns perceive they will sue outside of class in their real world. One of students in the video asked a question ten times though they got right answer. They tried to fulfill their authentic tasks.

Forth, learners are exposed to and encouraged to produce varied and creative language. In the video through talking about common stuffs they could produce creative language comfortably.

When I was a college student, I hardly met English native persons in real world, even out of the real world, as author expressed, on-line. (L. Diaz-, p.151). I studied TOEFL very hard but I never got a chance to practice my English with a native speakers. That’s why my listening and speaking ability are not still good.I think ‘Authentic task’ is really needed in order to learn other language and effective way.Also the part of improving pronunciation(p155) was helpful to me. If students had enough chance to practice their pronunciation and intonations, they would be more confident to communicate with native speakers, even though we hardly pronounce r, f, v, and z.