[ola] Getting Students to Ask Questions
- From: Amanda Miller <AMiller@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:11:24 +0000
Hi,
I’ve been pondering something the past few days. My students are 9th graders,
(they’ve had a year and a half of Spanish prior to this), and the goal is to
get them to the NH/IL level by the end of the year. It’s my understanding that
an important marker of the Intermediate level is asking questions. Some of the
students do this with ease already, which is great! My wonderings are around
how to get certain students to ask questions in Spanish, when they struggle to
ask questions in English… perhaps due to lack of interest or curiosity in
general. This is kind of along the same lines of “can younger learners attain
Superior level proficiency in the second language”, because they are unlikely
to be thinking abstractly even in their native language.
A more concrete question- how have you been practicing question-asking with
your students? I struggle to make the topics broad. I had some success once
with the prompt “I have a new roommate- ask me questions”.
Thanks for your thoughts! Have a wonderful weekend :)
-Amanda
Amanda Miller
Division 1.3 Spanish Teacher
The Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School &
Sizer Teachers Center
Devens, Massachusetts
AMiller@xxxxxxxxxx
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