[ola] Re: Getting Students to Ask Questions
- From: Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:17:16 -0500
I love it Antonio!
Stel
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Antonio Torres <
antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 J
>>
>>
>>
>> -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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