[ola] Re: Getting Students to Ask Questions
- From: Antonio Torres <antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:23:45 -0800
I forgot to tell you that with this activity we have a lot of fun in
class-- I have a Mexican Hat that the student has to put on:)--and their
friends love to take pictures of them sitting on the Hot Seat--of course
this creates a lot of topics to go into different directions, such as
facebook pictures, myspace, technology, etc. La Silla Caliente can be part
of their grade also. I usually wait about 3 -4 weeks before I implement
this activity-since students don't have the vocabulary yet to ask a lot of
questions....
Hope you guys can use this idea:)
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Stel Schmalz <
sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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