1st Semester German – Repairs
Repair initiations: What to say when one doesn’t hear or understand.
2nd Semester Spanish – Being an Active Listener
In this lesson, students explore common responders in Spanish used to indicate that one is following and understanding what is being said during a conversation. Attention will also be paid to continuers such as “ah” and “ajá” and responders used
1st Semester Italian – Active Listening – Asking for Information
Students develop the awareness of an interaction as a co-constructed process between the speaker and the listener, and they gain the ability to take on the role of active listener by practicing the use of topic expansions in a conversation.
1st Semester Chinese – Expressing Agreement – A Birthday Party
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.
1st Semester French – Discourse Markers – A Dispute
Students are guided to identify the presence of discourse fillers in a natural conversation, to develop awareness about the collaborative nature of spoken interactions, and to develop the ability to apply features of collaborative discourse to any conversational setting.
2nd Semester Korean – Responsive Tokens – Identify Responsive Tokens
This sample lesson plan provides practical ideas for teaching responsive turns in Korean as a second language using authentic language data to enhance students’ recognition and production of responsive turns and their various functions.
2nd Semester Spanish – Expanding a Conversation Topic – Talking About Familiar Topics
Students learn about ways to expand a conversation by asking follow-up questions, making additional comments, and stating opinions. Additionally, they are guided to notice features such as overlaps and interruptions and how they occur in spontaneous (unplanned) conversations.
5th Semester Spanish – Paralinguistic Information – A Telephone Call
Students listen to a phone conversation, work on the content of the dialogue, try to deduce the state of mind of the speakers, and reconstruct the conversation in the context of real-life conversations.
6th Semester Chinese – Requests – Making Requests
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.
6th Semester Chinese – Refusals – Indirect Strategies
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.