Bridging Research and Practice
Professional Development Resources for L2 Teaching and Learning
Students are guided to analyze the discourse functions of three expressions of agreement – 好(hǎo) , 好的(hǎo de), 好啊(hǎo a) which are used frequently in natural conversation. Then, students write short skits using these features.
In this lesson, students are guided to analyze the basic structure of a narrative, noticing the beginning, middle and ending and conjunctions/time phrases used to connect sentences. Then, students in pair construct a narrative based on what they have learned.
Students are guided to examine and analyze how language is used in request sequences. The analysis leads students to discover specific sentence patterns and word choices that can be used to mitigate requests.
This lesson is intended to follow the lesson on requests. Here, students analyze the linguistic and sociocultural practices used to reject a request appropriately in various contexts.
Students are guided to explore the lexical, structural and discourse features employed by native speakers in a doctor-patient conversation. In doing so, they develop the understanding of not only the linguistic but also the sociocultural aspects of the language. Workshop
Students are guided to analyze the language used in interviews with Chinese native speakers about their views of ‘hometown.’ Rich cultural values are reflected in their word choices, voices, registers, and perspectives in the language.