A rich linguistic meal

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A rich linguistic meal

• Task based learning of mother tongue
• Bert de Vos
• APS
• The Netherlands
• b.devos_at_aps.nl
• www.apsinternational.nl

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School

• Children with special needs (autistic, disturbed
  behavior)
• intellectual level between 70 - 90
• Children from 12 until 16
• First attempt to work with tasks
• Part of school development how to work on
  intrinsic motivation

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TaBaScoTask based school
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Orientation
pre-task
Try-out
N e g o t i a t i o n
task
Language fitness
Real performance
.post-task
Reflection Assessment
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Task what are we going to do?
Orientation
A recipe, what is it?
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Other tasks

• Make a school newspaper
• Make and present a leaflet for a parents meeting
  at school
• Help seniors in the neighborhood using electronic
  devices
• Organize a discussion on actual themes. Invite
  guests

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Reflection learning progression lines
Orientation Reflection
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• Learning trajectory Presenting
• Think of
• Oral presentation
• Presenting a paper
• Presenting during teaching practice or for
  parents
• Meeting

to fascinating speaker
from reading out aloud
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Language development
Support to measure
Word wall
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Test presentation Try-out
Try-out
Feed back from teacher and classmates
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Last preparations

• Other language tasks
• Invitation for parents
• poster

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Real performance (final)
Real performance
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Tabasco characteristics

• Learning by doing
• Real tasks
• Ownership by negotiating
• Language support to measure
• Organized and varied reflection