When to Use Formulaic Language in Teaching

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Practices in Classroom Second Language Acquisition

1.Role-play a conversation between a travel agent and a tourist—Get it right in the end because ultimately the tourist wants the correct information and that may be difficult due to language barriers, so some struggle is expected.

2.Memorize a dialogue about buying airline tickets—Get it right in the end because ultimately the key is to get it memorized correctly.

3.Underline the past tense verbs while reading a story—Get it right in the beginning because this is an exercise that should be completed in the first go around. It could also be Just listen and read, because it focuses on reading and seeing.

4.Arrange illustrations in the correct sequence after listening to a story—Just listen and read because it focuses on listening to a story and then arranging the visual depictions in the right order.

5.Work with a partner to write a story based on a cartoon strip—Let’s talk because this one focuses on two partners working out a story together after seeing a cartoon; they have to communicate to find the right story.

6.Rearrange a set of scrambled words to form correct questions—Get it right in the end, the key here being for the students to pay attention to the word arrangements.

7.Debate or discuss a topic that was featured in a newspaper article—Let’s talk because the focus here is on the students discussing the issue with one another.

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8.Watch an episode of Sesame Street—Teach what is teachable because this focuses not on results but rather on the absorption of material.

9.Demonstrate and describe the steps in a science experiment—Teach what is teachable because again like the last exercise this is about communicating to the student something and not about results.

10.Interview a mystery guest and try to discover his or her occupation—Let’s talk because this is about communicating with another person to arrive at information.

11.Play a game of ‘Simon Says.’—Get it right in the end because this is about following instructions correctly.

12.Work in small groups to choose the ideal candidate for a job—Two for one because this is a combination of talking and getting it right in the end.



As Lightbrown and Spada (2013) show, all these approaches have their place. The statements that best represent my current practice however are the “let’s talk” approach because….....

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