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Enhancing Communicative Skills in South Asian Languages Through Engaging Lesson Plans

This lesson plan template focuses on developing communicative skills in South Asian languages through interactive activities and cultural awareness. It includes pre-activities for activating background knowledge, engaging video presentations, and collaborative tasks to negotiate meaning. Activities emphasize linguistic elements, including greetings, kinship terms, and forms of address, while fostering reflection on heritage versus non-heritage speaker experiences. Students will engage in listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises that connect cultural insights with language use, promoting active learning and intercultural understanding.

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Enhancing Communicative Skills in South Asian Languages Through Engaging Lesson Plans

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  1. Delivering skills South Asian Languages

  2. Communicative Premise • Possibility of an open response • Negotiation of meaning

  3. Lesson Plan—Template • Topic • Goals • Linguistic • Communicative tasks • Learning strategies • Structure • Preparation • Presentation • Evaluation

  4. Examplar: Greetings • Pre-activity: Background • Video presentation • Activity: Making observations • Post-activity: Application

  5. Pre-activity • Background activation • Situating the context

  6. Activity • Making observations • Kinds of information conveyed • Linguistic realizations • Role relations • Kinship terms • Forms of address

  7. Activity contd. • Question: Are heritage/non-heritage speakers going to observe all the information there? • Pair-work, group discussion • If not, then how can we make them observe the various fictive kinship terms, forms of address, and the linguistic expression of greetings?

  8. Post-activity • Applying it to our own teaching/learning experience • Personal narratives • Intercultural comparisons

  9. Skills activity • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing • Grammar

  10. Stages Pre-reading Identify main elements Identify details Use of text meaning Preview text, establish a purpose, predict meaning Identify main ideas, characters, settings, and events Read intensively and connect main concepts to details Skills Activity—Reading

  11. Organize/revise main ideas/details React to text/explore intertextuality Revise main ideas and supporting details Students give opinions and reactions to text and relate other texts to it Reading —2

  12. Grammar: PACE • Focus on form • P: presentation of meaningful language • A: attention • C: co-construct grammatical explanation • E: extension activity

  13. Writing—Project orientedhttp://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/hindi/resources/res_uiuc.html • Learner-focused, free options • Thematic • Awareness of socio-cultural, historical, and political awareness • Incremental • Guided, two steps • Grammaticality • Coherence/Cohesion

  14. Conclusions • Focus on DISCOVERING culture • Language is the instrument/tool/medium of that DISCOVERY • Learner is ACTIVE • Teacher’s role: Keeping learner ACTIVE

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