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This week, I read an article about maximizing the benefits of projects work. My initial reaction to it was Intrigue. I thought finally an article that explains how to create projects in which students can get involved with. And indeed, it presents heavy arguments about involving students in the creation of projects to foster them utilize a second language.
Something I learned and I immediately wanted to share with a college was that the basis of successful projects. A project should focuses on real-world subject matter that can sustain the interest of students. Also, it requires student collaboration and, at the same time, some degree of student autonomy and independence. In the same way, a project can accommodate a purposeful and explicit focus on form and other aspects of language. And without forgetting, that it is process and product oriented, with an emphasis on integrated skills and end-of project reflection.
Something I learned and that I immediately wanted to share with a colleague was the ten-step process to maximize the potential benefits of project work. It explains how to develop a project taking into consideration students´ ideas for deciding a project´s topic with the teachers´ guidance. It is greatly important because students are capable to obtain a feeling of ownership to the project. Also, instructors are able to designs language-improvement activities to help students successfully present the final outcome of the project. Such help may focus on skills for successful oral presentations, effective written revisions and editing, persuasive debates, and so forth.
To sum up, teachers should structure their curricula around topics of relevance to students in various vocational areas, so that students will have an idea to perform the investigation. Also, teachers should provide the correct environment and elements to use during a project, in such a way students feel supported by the instructor or guide in any improvised circumstance.
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