Speakers: Maggie Chen, Yuri Liu
As ACTFL has updated the national standards to promote World-Readiness language learning, language education nowadays is no longer about teaching what a language is like. Rather, it is to provide authentic input and meaningful practice to help learners develop a series of transferable skills, targeted in the ACTFL five “C” goal areas, which enable them to apply their language skills beyond instructional settings and according to a variety of situational needs. In this session, presenters will demonstrate how to establish an authentic and meaningful instructional setting (curriculum design, lesson plan, instructional activities, and materials) that is tightly connected to the ACTFL five “C” goals, in which learners improve their language skills (oral proficiency and literacy), applicable in real-life situations or workplaces. The presenters will also provide sample lesson plans, materials, and activities that can enhance learner engagement.
2. Agenda
Backward Design
Steps:
1. Identify Desired Results
2. Determine Assessment Evidence
• Student IPA Samples
3. Plan Learning Experiences
• Integrate Language, Content & Cultural via Authentic Texts
3. What is Backward Design?
Backward Design is beginning
with the end in mind; starting with
a clear understanding of your destination.
◦Know where you are going;
◦Know where you are now;
◦So the steps you take are always in the right
direction.
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4. The Backward Design Process
Identify desired results
(what students will understand, know and be able to do)
Determine assessment evidence
(evidence that demonstrates student learning)
Plan learning experiences
(learning activities that lead students to the desired results)
5. Useful Documents
• World Readiness Standards
• Can-Do Statements
These documents help teachers determine what students should know and be able
to do and specify how well students perform.
They are useful for
Identifying learning goals and objectives;
Determining acceptable evidence;
Integrated Performance Assessments;
Authentic Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational Tasks.
Step 1. Identify Desired Results
8. Presentational Task Guidelines
Presentational Task Guidelines
1. The Presentational Task assesses student learning of language, culture and content.
2. The task specifies a “real-world” audience.
3. The task is suitable for students’ age and level of proficiency.
4. The task is meaningful and requires/simulates culturally-appropriate “real-world”
communication.
12. 練習/练习
Trader Joe’s is opening a new
store in Taiwan/China. You are
hired to be the translator for
their products.
Task: Translate the information
on the packaging for this
product.
介紹產品/介绍产品
品牌
品名
賣/卖点
18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnkFVUfmCC8
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1. What happened to the boy? Why was he not eating?
2. What do you think 热量 is?
3. Why is the boy gaining weight?
4. What’s the measure word for calories in Chinese?
5. What does his mother suggest?
6. What is the answer to the boy’s question in the end?
26. http://www.cchrchealth.org/cn/choices/grocery_shopping_flash.htm
Interpretive Task:
Please include units of measurement in English in your answers.
評估/评估 AS/15 pts
1. Identify the product name.
2. Identify the serving size.
3. Identify the total calories each serving
contains.
4-10: Identify the amount of _______ this
products contains.
4. calories from fat
5. cholesterol
6. sodium
7. carbohydrates
8. fiber
9. sugar
10.Protein
11.This product contains 1% of ____.
12.This product contains 3% of ____.
13.What does “營養” /”營養” mean?
14.What is “維生素”?
15.Do you think this product is healthy?
Why or why not?
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卡卡 卡
28. http://www.cchrchealth.org/cn/choices/grocery_shopping_flash.htm
Interpretive Task:
Please include units of measurement in English in your answers.
評估/评估 AS/15 pts
1. Identify the product name.
2. Identify the serving size.
3. Identify the total calories each serving
contains.
4-10: Identify the amount of _______ this
products contains.
4. calories from fat
5. cholesterol
6. sodium
7. carbohydrates
8. fiber
9. sugar
10.Protein
11.This product contains 1% of ____.
12.This product contains 3% of ____.
13.What does “營養” /”營養” mean?
14.What is “維生素”?
15.Do you think this product is healthy? Why
or why not?
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卡卡 卡
29. 15秒廣告 / 15 秒广告
• 營養點心,飲料等等/营养点心,饮料等等
• 健康食品/健康食品
• 新產品/新产品
• Present with visuals/the product.
• Speak to your target audience.
• Create a slogan.
• Be persuasive!
35. Check list:
Signs when
the immune
system is
weak
Catching a
cold easily
Feeling
hungry all
the time
Body aches Feeling tired
often
Feeling
sleepy
Lack of
appetite
Share what you checked and learned with a partner.
Ways to
boost the
immune
system
Eat a lot Avoid eating
sweets
Take
vitamins
Eat foods with
good source or
carbohydrate
Select foods with
good protein
Drink a lot of
milk
Exercise Sleep
During viewing:
1. What is the best thing to drink?
2. What does she mean by eating quality carbs?
Post viewing: Summarize the nutritionist’s suggestions on boosting the immune system
in English.
39. Integrated Performance Assessment
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)
As a requirement for a health class you are taking, you must complete an internship at a local hospital.
There is a large immigrant population from the Chinese speaking countries (China, Taiwan, Singapore,
and etc.) in your community that attends that hospital. Because of your language skills in Mandarin, the
hospital administrator has hired you as a paid nurse’s assistant. You must be prepared to discuss healthy
eating in the target language.
Task Options:
1. Create and present a poster, video, song or a storybook to promote healthy diet and living using
useful terms, suggestions and samples of healthy plates to distribute to the local Chinese schools or
community centers.
Sample Video:蔬果的故事 (Stories of the fruits and vegetables):
http://www.canceraway.org.tw/kid579/
2. Create and present a video, pamphlet, a flyer, or a webpage for the hospital’s website on how to
boost the immune system and stay healthy with useful terms and health advice for the immigrant
population at the hospital.
Sugested tools
*Storybird: www.storybird.com Glogster: http://www.glogster.com/
40. Integrated Performance Assessment (1)
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)
As a requirement for a health class you are taking, you must complete an internship at a local hospital.
There is a large immigrant population from the Chinese speaking countries (China, Taiwan, Singapore,
and etc.) in your community that attends that hospital. Because of your language skills in Mandarin,
the hospital administrator has hired you as a paid nurse’s assistant. You must be prepared to discuss
health-related issues of the immune system in the target language.
Interpretive Task
Watch a Chinese video on how to boost the immune system and stay healthy. Complete a checklist to
determine comprehension.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoCwzLlDSg
Interpersonal Task
Pair up with a classmate. Using the notes that you took about the medical advice during the
interpretive task, create a list of useful suggestions that you could give people with different ailments
(Class Activity).
Presentational Tasks
Create and present a video, pamphlet, a flyer, or a webpage for the hospital’s website on how to
boost the immune system with useful terms and health advice for the immigrant population at the
hospital.
41. Integrated Performance Assessment (2)
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)
As a requirement for a health class you are taking, you must complete an internship at a local hospital.
There is a large immigrant population from the Chinese speaking countries (China, Taiwan, Singapore,
and etc.) in your community that attends that hospital. Because of your language skills in Mandarin,
the hospital administrator has hired you as a paid assistant for a nutritionist. You must be prepared to
discuss health-related issues in the target language. Your assignment is to design a healthy diet plan
for three meals for a client based on his or her Body Mass Index (BMI) information.
Interpretive Task
Visit the following websites to calculate daily calories your client needs and to look up calories in foods
to design the diet plan.
http://www.scpo.nccu.edu.tw/show/part1/b/B2/cal.htm
Healthy Plates: http://www.canceraway.org.tw/579aday/dish.html
Interpersonal Task
Interview your client on his or her eating habits and life styles to gather information (Class activity).
Presentational Tasks
Design and present a healthy diet plan for three meals for a client based on his or her Body Mass
Index (BMI) information.
*Storybird: www.storybird.com
*Healthy Plates: http://www.canceraway.org.tw/579aday/dish.html
42. Integrated Performance Assessment (3)
Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)
As a requirement for a health class you are taking, you must complete an internship at a local hospital.
There is a large immigrant population from the Chinese speaking countries (China, Taiwan, Singapore,
and etc.) in your community that attends that hospital. Because of your language skills in Mandarin,
the hospital administrator has hired you as a paid nurse’s assistant. You must be prepared to discuss
healthy eating in the target language.
Interpretive Task
Watch a Chinese news clip on promoting healthy breakfast. Complete a checklist to determine
comprehension.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6z1Lb8u4c&feature=player_detailpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6z1Lb8u4c
Interpersonal Task
Pair up with a classmate. Using the notes that you took about the advice during the interpretive task,
create a list of useful suggestions that you could give people with different ailments (Class Activity).
Presentational Tasks
Create and present a poster, video, song or a storybook to promote healthy diet using useful terms,
suggestions and samples of healthy plates to distribute to the local Chinese School.
*Storybird: www.storybird.com Glogster: http://www.glogster.com/
*Healthy Plates: http://www.canceraway.org.tw/579aday/dish.html