Guideline for Language Classroom Instruction

Language presentation Objectives Materials (modalities) Rule presentations and Explanations

Tasks The activity Information and motivation phase Input/control phase Focus/working phase Transfer/application phase

Task types and parameters Goal and roles for learners Task conditions: respect learner production, interaction, and feedback (information structure or information transfer) Task difficulty: different learners will have in ability to perform on any given task Task sequencing

Relevant characteristics Output hypothesis: task require learners to produce more complex constructions than they would otherwise use Shared assumptions Recycling Convergence: reaching a mutually acceptable solution

Facilitation Class organization Teacher-fronted class: Question types, wait- time,

Correction and feedback