Project work is becoming increasing popular among practitioners of focus on form approach. A project involves students in deciding together what they want to do to complete a project. This activity is very similar to TBLT regards aims, steps and communication feature. Very briefly saying, project work is any project that you have probably seen in classroom of any lessons. They start by the teacher introducing a topic to their students: holidays, magazine, designs for cities in the future, etc. Bear in mind that by saying introducing the topic I do not mean that the teacher must say their students the topic they are dealing with, but for example, come into the classroom sharing an experience related to the topic, or asking the students what
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- All four skills are integrated in the projects: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
- Interpersonal relations are developed when working with other people to achieve the same goal.
- Fluency and accuracy are more or less balanced in project work.
- Sometimes learners involve their parents in projects when asking them for an advice or telling them about the project they are doing in school.
Some possible drawbacks:
- A very common problem in project work is that if the groups are very big, be sure that somebody is not going to work. By giving more freedom to students they feel that other may do the work for them. Try making the groups smaller: 3 people is fine, and when planning the project work, try thinking that each of the participants of the group will have a specific topic to be dealing with.
- Students may use their first language. It is not your fault, you cannot be with all the groups at the same time controlling that everybody is using the correct language, but what you could try is encouraging your students to use Second language for their own benefit: ensure them that they have to talk in English and even think in English, if not they are not going to have any
- All four skills are integrated in the projects: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
- Interpersonal relations are developed when working with other people to achieve the same goal.
- Fluency and accuracy are more or less balanced in project work.
- Sometimes learners involve their parents in projects when asking them for an advice or telling them about the project they are doing in school.
Some possible drawbacks:
- A very common problem in project work is that if the groups are very big, be sure that somebody is not going to work. By giving more freedom to students they feel that other may do the work for them. Try making the groups smaller: 3 people is fine, and when planning the project work, try thinking that each of the participants of the group will have a specific topic to be dealing with.
- Students may use their first language. It is not your fault, you cannot be with all the groups at the same time controlling that everybody is using the correct language, but what you could try is encouraging your students to use Second language for their own benefit: ensure them that they have to talk in English and even think in English, if not they are not going to have any