The document discusses lesson planning in adult ESL, emphasizing various types of learning activities such as awareness-raising, appropriation, and autonomy activities. It outlines the objectives of each activity type, providing insights on how to effectively engage students and enhance language acquisition. Additionally, it encourages educators to reflect on their lesson designs and consider adaptations for EAL students in K-12 settings.

1. Lesson Planning in
Adult ESL
Types of Learning Activities
2009 - Joanne Pettis
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2. Lesson Planning
 What makes a good lesson from your
perspective?
 Have you been a language learner? What
worked/didn’t work for you?
 How do these ideas affect what you would like
to do in your lessons?

3. Learning Activities
 Awareness-raising activities
 Appropriation activities
 Autonomy Activities
 Transfer Activities

4. Awareness-raising Activities
 At the beginning of a module
 Engage Ss in topic
 Elicit prior knowledge
 Develop context awareness
 Also used to introduce new language elements
 Hypothesize rules and/or patterns
 Introduce vocabulary

5. Appropriation Activities
 Skill-building
 Teacher managed
 Focused on discrete items or pre-requisite skills
 Intended to develop form and accuracy
 Maximum scaffolding
 Limited language choices and/or memorized
chunks of language
 Controlled practice
 Need limited cognitive resources
 Teacher-managed

6. Autonomy Activities
 Skill-using
 Provide rehearsal for authentic tasks beyond
classroom
 Focused on fluency and making meaning
 Student managed
 Minimum scaffolding
 Repertoire of linguistic and non-linguistic resources
 May need negotiation of meaning
 Needs comprehension
 Student-managed

7. Transfer to Other Contexts
 Does not automatically occur
 Requires intentional debriefing
 To look for and recognize other
opportunities to use skills outside classroom

8. ACTIVITY 2
 Look at lesson plan sample in Foundations or
module sample from Canadian Snapshots.
 Discuss if/how it exhibits characteristics of
good lesson/s. OR
 Discuss how you might include or modify
learning activities in a regular K-12 class to
accommodate EAL Ss