ACTION ORIENTED APPROACH

Action-Oriented ApproachFundamentos de Curriculum Josue Avila Molina Tiffany Romero Madrigal August 27, 2022

Content

Definition and Context

Basic Principles

Roles in the Action- Oriented Approach

Action-Oriented Approach in Costa Rica

Action-Oriented Approach in the Classroom

Definition and Context

Action-Oriented Approach

Provide motivating, realistic, project-based language teaching linked to the promotion of interculturality and other competences.

It focuses on allowing learners to use the English language to build their own knowledge through real life experiences. Teachers foster activities that allow students to recreate language/learning scenarios.

Basic Principles

Basic Principles from AOA

Language performances in oral or written form

Perform specific actions in real life contexts

Enabling and communicative activities

Authentic materials as comprehensible input

ICTs as an important tool

Vocabulary, syntax, cohesive forms, and phonology

Intercultural awareness

A great degree of autonomy

Basic Principles

Action-Oriented Approach

Focuses on the recreation of real-life activities, or situations that allow learners to simulate the social actions of everyday life, in concordance with the role of the tasks.

Categories

• Psycho-social: Connected with their individual personalities.• Socio-cultural: Knowledge of the society and the community where the target language is spoken.

Basic Principles

Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Competence

Discursive Competence

Pragmatic Competences

Linguistic Competence

Formal and colloquial rules of speaking

Capacity of building an oral discourse.

The functional use of language

Phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

Roles in the AOA

Roles in the Action-Oriented Approach

The Teacher

The Learner

• Agent/performer with intercultural awareness skills.
• Autonomous, works cooperatively, interacts with others.
• Develops metacognitive, reflective, and critical thinking.

• Facilitator, coach, resource person.
• Helps the learner become autonomous and be successful.
• Provides effective feedback.
• Shows expert role but shares this responsibility with the learner.

Learning Resources

Aim of the Activies

• Communicative activities
• Language activities and strategies are presented under four modes of communication
• Accomplishment and domain scenarios to the learner’s life experience and personality

• Oral or written authentic texts.
• Appropriate to the learner´s needs and competence level
• Intercultural perspective.

Roles in the AOA

Planning

Learning Environment

Assesment

Identify strenghts and weaknesses, monitor progress, checklists, feedback.

Real-world contexts, collaborative, stimulating, mediated by ICTs.

Completion of the real-life task.Modes of communication.Different levels of the CEFR (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2)

AOA in Costa Rica

Action-Oriented Approach in Costa Rica

MEP changed the syllabus in 2017 which states the following: 1.Curriculum that shows knowledge, skills and abilities. 2.Pre-school, elementary and secondary school´s curriculum needed an update. 3.English lessons were not reaching the proficiency level as expected. 4.Lessons requiered more competences in comunication.

AOA in the Classroom

Action-Oriented Approach in the Classroom

Authenticity of the scenario

Backwards design

Considering interests and needs

Aceptance of complexity

Diagnostic, Formative and Summative Assessment

Unifying task

Accomplishing a task/project

Integration of additional languages

(Self-)assessment

Increase language awareness

Feedforward and feedback

Action-Oriented Approach in the Classroom

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