Transcription of 6 The structure of a language lesson - Professor Jack C ...
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6 ThestructureofalanguagelessonLessons are events which are fairly easy to recognize. They take place ina particular setting ( , a school or classroom), they normally involvetwo kinds of participants (the teacher and students), and they normallyconsist of recognizable kinds of activities ( , the teacher lecturing atthe front of the class, the teacher posing questions and calling on studentsto answer them). A lesson is, hence, distinguishable from other kinds ofspeech events, such as meetings, debates, arguments, or other speech events, however, lessons have a recognizable struc-ture.
have chosen a song by Simon and Garfunkel. (The class then listens to the song "I Am a Rock" and discusses the metaphors in the lyrics.) This teacher has chosen several strategies to begin her lesson. She makes links to a previous lesson, she previews the current lesson, and she uses a
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