LANGUAGE BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Language Building Activities



Language Building Activities

Introduction

This paper talks about fifty individuals who are different levels of language proficiency. Every individual requires building their communication skills. This paper discusses the language building activities that would help the fifty individuals in communicating and will add to their language proficiency.

Ten Language Building Activities

English language learners learn English at different rates, with different learning styles, as well as with different skill levels of English. Every individual in the group of fifty individuals possesses different levels of language proficiency (Ovando, Collier & Combs, 2005). Therefore, to improve their communication skills the following language building activities can be adopted

Writing story innovations

Holding book reviews

Enacting plays

Discussing what you have read

Collecting words

Conducting debates

Selecting role plays

Presenting thematic view points

Being a teacher for a session

Discussing drawings and captions

Five Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)

Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills are the language skills that used for social interaction are such as chatting with friends, ordering food, or playing soccer on the playground.

Role-playing exercises that utilize real-world situations can be very effective for developing a learner's BICS. They are allowed to use their acting skills to both learn English by acting in the role-play, as well as watching others act.

Student surveys can be effective for instructing students how to ask questions to their classmates. Such questions can include daily routines, schedules, favorite activities, and etc.

Watching a movie that focuses on developing conversational English can be very helpful for introducing specific speaking scenarios to learners. After watching the movie, students can be asked to share their opinions on certain scenes of the movie as well as an act out the scenes.

A TPR activity that focuses on body language and gestures can be very helpful for newer learners. For example, when teaching basic new words to learners, associate an ...