Question Formation Through Dialogic Pedagogy
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by Ashani Gunawardana
| 17 Aug 2021
Resource Description:
This lesson provides an opportunity for the students to form grammatically correct questions. This lesson incorporates dialogic pedagogical approach (with the ample use of classroom talk).
Audience:
Adult, Secondary
Audience Language Proficiency:
Intermediate
Duration:
60 minutes
Language Skill:
Grammar
Content Area:
- English as a second language
- Dialogic pedagogy
Materials and Technology:
- Access to internet
- Whiteboard
- Google Classroom
Objective(s):
The lesson aims to enable the students to:
- Form yes/ no questions out of a statement
- Form WH questions out of a yes/ no question
Outcome(s):
At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
Procedure:
- Prepare (5 minutes)
- Direct casual questions to students as a warm up activity
- Are you ready?
- What is the lesson today?
- Where did we stop last week?
- Why are you silent?
- After students make their responses, instruct students to pay attention to the questions the teacher asked
- Write down the elicited questions on the whiteboard and focus students’ attention towards those questions
- Present (25 minutes, while providing an opportunity for learner autonomy through dialogic pedagogy)
- Display the elicited sentences on the whiteboard
- Assign students to make yes/ no questions of those sentences as groups
- After 10 minutes, instruct the steps of forming yes/ no questions by eliciting answers from the students
- Identify the verb
- If the verb is “BE”, position the verb before the subject in a yes/ no Question
- If the verb is one word verb, the dummy auxiliary has to be elicited in order to position it before the subject
- If the verb phrase has more than one word verb, take the first auxiliary and position it before the subject
- Introduce WH question words in order to form the WH questions
- When, where, why, who, how etc.
- Instruct students to add WH question word prior to the yes/ no questions structure
- Practice (15 minutes)
- Display 10 sentences on the board
- Ask students to form yes/no questions out of them
- Drill the yes /no questions 2-3 times
- Perform (15 minutes)
- Instruct students to develop a TV interview (at least 10 questions using yes/ no and WH questions) with famous figure/s in the country (group work – 5-6 members) and enact it.
- Group the students (5-6 members in a group)
- Decide on a famous figure/s in the country that they select as the guest of their TV program
- Based on the profile of the guest, ask students to write sentences which can be asked from the famous figure
- If he is a movie star:
- What is your latest movie?
- With whom did you act in the movie….?
- Which movie do you like most? Etc.
- Students practice and then enact it. Each role is to be videotaped.
- Grant 10 marks for grammatically accurate 10 questions.
- At the end of each presentation, along with marks earned, students would be given written feedback on the errors made in the question formation and a soft copy of their role play to identify the errors
Assessment:
As formative assessment, instruct students to form at least 10 questions based on the poem The Snare by James Stephens (https://www.poemist.com/james-stephens/the-snare) and upload the answers to the google classroom.
Examples:
- What do you hear?
- Where is the rabbit?
Differentiation:
To enable the students to practice question formation further, the following homework activity is assigned.
- https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-to-pre-intermediate/question-forms
- https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/search/forming+questions
References:
POEMIST: https://www.poemist.com/james-stephens/the-snare
TESOL Interest Section:
Adult Education, Applied Linguistics