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What are the self-study modules in Communicative tasks?
- Module 1 – Engaging with genre
The aim of this module is to give you an understanding of what genre is and how a knowledge of genre can be useful. You will define what genre is, identify the purposes and stages of different genres as well as plan the stages of a writing lesson using a model text.
- Module 2 – Engaging with speaking and listening genres
This module will help you create genuinely communicative activities that target specific speaking and listening genres. You will define genre in the context of speaking and listening and identify differences between spoken and written genres. You will be able to select and design appropriate assessment tasks that focus on communicative competence and appropriacy, not just language form.
- Module 3 –Putting task-based learning (TBL) into practice
The aim of this module is to help you design meaningful, real-world tasks that promote communication, support learner autonomy, and lead to purposeful language use. Through creating a lesson plan based on the Task-based learning framework you will learn how to scaffold learner production effectively and maximise task output by raising learner awareness of language form through meaningful contexts.