In this section, you’ll find downloadable lesson plans for introducing and providing practice with using a variety of interactional strategies, with the aim of helping users improve their capability and comfort with initiating and participating in various forms of communication and accommodating a wide range of other users of GE.
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Negotiation of Meaning
Surrealist Room: Practice with Clarification Questions for Negotiating Meaning
Author(s): Kenny Harsch
Link to lesson plan: Harsch-K-Surrealist Room.docx
Overview: Describing objects and their location within a room to practice asking for clarification.
Negotiation of Meaning: Comprehension, Paraphrasing, and Clarification
Author(s): Isaku Yamada
Link to lesson plan: Yamada-I-Negotiation of Meaning-Comprehension Paraphrasing and Clarification
Overview: Using spot-the-difference tasks to practice comprehension checks, paraphrasing, and asking for clarification.
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Navigating Conversations
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Developing rapport, conviviality, and harmony
Building Conviviality Through Commenting
Author(s): Kenny Harsch
Link to lesson plan: Harsch-K-Building-Conviviality-Through-Commenting.docx
Overview: Students work in pairs, with one talking about a topic of interest and the other making comments to show understanding and conviviality.
Effective Communication through Turn-Taking
Author(s): Anne McCarrey
Link to lesson plan: McCarrey-A-Effective Communication through Turn-Taking.docx
Overview: Students work in pairs, with one talking about a topic of interest and the other entering the conversation via turn-taking strategies.
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Repairing communication breakdowns
Title: Addressing Communication Breakdowns Due to Accentedness
Author(s): Matthew Kakimi
Link to lesson plan: Kakimi-M-Addressing Communication Breakdowns Due to Accentedness
Overview: Students review and discuss dialogues to understand communication breakdowns that occur because of unfamiliar accents, and develop phrases and strategies for addressing those breakdowns.
Translanguaging and use of non-verbal strategies
Title: English as a Global Language: Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Author(s): Robert Cunningham, Jr. & Alexander F. Tang
Link to lesson plan: Cunningham-and-Tang_English_as_a_Global_Language-Reading_in_Multilingual_Contexts
Overview: While reading the prologue from the novel, Crazy Rich Asians, students identify the author's translingual use of non-English words and ways that using these words contribute to a text’s sense of voice. (NOTE: This activity can be used in conjunction with a writing activity, Cunningham-and-Tang_English_as_a_Global_Language-Writing_Personal_Narratives.)
Title: English as a Global Language: Writing Personal Narratives
Author(s): Robert Cunningham, Jr. & Alexander F. Tang
Link to lesson plan: Cunningham-and-Tang_English_as_a_Global_Language-Writing_Personal_Narratives
Overview: Students learn to identify concepts, words, and phrases from their L1 (or regional variety of English) that better express ideas, then incorporate those concepts, words, or phrases in a narrative essay in a way that will be comprehensible to their readers. (NOTE: This activity is easier if done after the reading activity, Cunningham-and-Tang_English_as_a_Global_Language-Reading_in_Multilingual_Contexts.)
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