[ola] Re: Getting Students to Ask Questions
- From: Antonio Torres <antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:15:01 -0800
Amanda,
I do an activity in class called La Silla Caliente. I have a 'special'
chair where every student has to sit once during each semester. I hand out
about 8-12 cards to random students--sometimes the student who sits on "La
Silla Caliente" hands those out...whoever gets these cards has to ask a
question to the student on the Hot Seat(and questions cannot be repeated).
This is a very good way to practice asking questions, and if you do it
everyday it becomes very easy for students to ask basic questions, such as:
como te llamas, como eres, que tiempo hace hoy, que te gusta hacer,
etc.... Needless to say, I model asking questions from day one in class
and I do it everyday.
Hope this gives you another strategy that you can use:)
Antonio
David Douglas High School
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Amanda Miller <AMiller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’ve been pondering something the past few days. My students are 9thgraders,
> (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.
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> 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”.
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> Thanks for your thoughts! Have a wonderful weekend J
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> -Amanda
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> 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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