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Move Students’ Foreign Language
Speaking & Writingfrom
Novice to
Intermediate
Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency
and communicate with confidence.
At the novice level, students are
speaking and writing with single
words and lists initially, then move
on to memorized phrases.
Intermediate students create complete, discrete sentences on their own that move beyond words, lists & phrases.
Teachers can scaffold this process
for students by assisting them in
creating sentences.
It is often challenging for students
to add details to a sentence to make
it complete & their own.
Using question words with students is a simple and effective way to have students add details to their sentences.
The more they do this the more
they will grow in confidence and
begin to do it on their own when
speaking & writing.
This will move the sentence from
“I like to swim”
to…
with whom?
when?
where?
“I like to swim with my friend Julie on Saturday at
the community pool.”
The more students get accustomed to adding details this way the more they will do it on their own when speaking and writing.
Click on the image below to read my blog post on this topic.
Click on the images on the next few
slides for suggestions and resources
for guiding students through this
process of moving their speaking and
writing from novice to intermediate.
www.wlclassroom.com
Tips, Tools and Resources to help your students rise in proficiency and
communicate with confidence.
