Interpersonal Mode
How do we design instruction to increase
the students’ skill in real-time
interactions with native speakers?
I can design instruction
To teach and assess interpersonal
communication
I can teach
others
How to assess both skills in
the interpersonal mode
I can help students
To practice the interpersonal mode
I can identify
What the
interpersonal mode
is
Self Assess
Interpersonal Mode
What do you know already
about the interpersonal mode?
Type in the chat window
Interaction
Negotiate
Meaning
Spoken
or
Signed
Clarifying
Questions
Share
Information
Written
Conversations
Reactions
&
Feelings
Opinions
Communication Situations
Yes,
Interpersonal
Communication
Not
Sure
No,
Some other
mode
Presentation to Investors
Skit
Socratic Seminar
Text messages
Ordering in
a Café
Flirting
0% 100%75%75%
Speaking
Every Day
Most Everyday speaking is not
Rehearsed or Memorized
is not edited
Communication
Some email is not edited. Text messages
are rarely edited.
Speaking
than
Writing
More
LEAST MOST
What % of communication is
Interpersonal ?
Career
Proficiency Levels for Jobs
Proficiency Band Career
Novice None
Intermediate
Receptionist
Housekeeping
Cashier
Retail Sales
Aviation
Tour Guide
Advanced
Customer Service
Social Worker
Teacher
Fraud Specialist
Court Stenographer
Physician
Military Linguist
Communications Consultant
Speaking
Most
important
Time for your
ideas!Ready…Set…Go!
Micro-practice
Impromptu
Random
Scaffolds
Making Time
1. Seating Choices
2. Sentence Starters
3. Student Reactions
4. Bicycle Chain
5. Emotional Whammy
Strategies
Seating Configuration
Seating Configuration
1
2
3
4
Seating Configuration
Seating Configuration
Seating Configuration
Sentence Starters
I like to…
I disagree, because…
Conversation
Scaffold
Reaction
Words
Word Wall
Reacting with Incredulity
Hesitating
Reacting with Surprise
Gaining Time
Bicycle Chain
Bicycle Chain
Bicycle Chain
Conversation
Scaffold
Sad
Conversation
You are feeling
sad today
BEST EVER!
GOOD START
TO THE TOP!
YOUR TEXT HERE,
OR THERE.
You are happy
and optomistic
Interpersonal
Writing
Trouble Shooting
Challenges in Chat Window
The Case Against Skits
Skit = Presentational Speaking
Lack of confidence for improvised conversations
Low
Frequency
Task
Huge Allocation of Time
Skit is incapacitated by absence
Memorization does equal understanding
Hi, I’m Thomas.
What is your name?
Carrots are good.
Doesn’t Prepare for
Real World Encounters
Doctor
The Case for Improvised Speaking
Reflects Real Communication
Practice
Many Partners
Nuances
Use Real Feelings
Test it out on native speakers
Be Prepared
for Anything
Devote Significant Time to Interpersonal Speaking

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Editor's Notes

  • #4 Chat Window
  • #5 Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
  • #7 © Monart Design - Fotolia.com If students can carry on a conversation about sports, school, home life or the environment. They should score at least one credit.
  • #15 Interpersonal speaking is the most important skill for business, medicine, education
  • #16 Business highly prefer to hire bilingual workers, even if they are language learners. However, the proficiency level needs to verge on the advanced (int. high) for the proficieny to be functional enough for the business. http://nble.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ACTFLWorkplaceProficiencyAssess.pdf
  • #25 Class constructed posters Conversation Scaffold
  • #41 Gives the wrong impression It sets students up for failure – they think they can only use French when they have a script in hand and they know every word - as though it's Shakespeare.
  • #43 Skits also take a lot of class time that could be better use for actual unrehearsed practice - interpersonal speaking
  • #44 The skit is suddenly incapacited by the asbsence of a partner.
  • #45 Theatre of the absurd
  • #46 Because when students need to use their language with native speakers, they will soon find that the hotel clerk did not memorize their part of the converation
  • #47 Doesn’t prepare you for surgery
  • #48 The case for unrehearse improvisated interpersonal speaking
  • #49 Effective Interpersonal Speaking Practice will include a context with some possible sentence frame
  • #53 Reaction Words