APPENDIX B: Activity Analysis Sheet Unit 4, All-Star 31 (Money and Consumer Issues)

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 5

Lesson 4

Reading/Writing
Strategies

Lesson 6

I. WHAT IS THE LEARNER

EXPECTED TO DO?
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A. TURN-TAKE
Initiate
Respond
Not Required

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B. FOCUS on
Language system (rules or form)
Meaning
Meaning/system relationship
Strategies (e.g., reading/writing, learning,

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thinking, communication)

C. MENTAL OPERATION
Repeat identically
Repeat selectively
Repeat with substitution
Repeat with transformation
Repeat with expansion
Retrieve from Short-Term Memory
Retrieve from Intermediate-Term Memory
Retrieve from Long-Term Memory
Formulate items into larger unit
Decode semantic/propositional meaning
Select information
Calculate
Categorize selected information
Hypothesize/Develop Questions or Solutions
Compare samples of language
Analyze language form
Formulate language rule
Apply stated language rule
Apply general knowledge
Review own FL output

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Adapted from Littlejohn (1998), p. 210. I substituted activity for task, to allow analysis of the wider range of Unit 4 elements that do not fully include all of the components of Nunans (1987)
definition (input, goal, activities, roles, and outcomes).
Note: Lesson 7 is not included in this chart, since it is of a different type than all other parts; it includes listening and vocabulary review/assessment tools, and a box-check learning log.
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Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

R/W Strategies

II. WHO WITH?

Teacher and learner(s), whole class observing
Learner(s) to the whole class
Learners with whole class simultaneously
Learners in pairs/groups; class observing
Learners in pairs/groups, simultaneously
Learners individually in classroom setting

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III. WITH WHAT CONTENT?

A. INPUT TO LEARNERS
Graphic
Words/phrases/sentences: written
Words/phrases/sentences: oral
Extended discourse: written
Extended discourse: oral
B. EXPECTED OUTPUT
Graphic
Words/phrases/sentences: written
Words/phrases/sentences: oral
Extended discourse: written
Extended discourse: oral
C. SOURCE
Materials
Teacher
Learners
D. NATURE
Metalinguistic Comment
Linguistic Item
Personal Information/Opinion
Fiction
Non-fiction
Metacognitive Comment
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