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Can I teach grammar with PBL?
Posted: 11 March 2011 12:00 AM   [ Ignore ]
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hello every one ... I’m Jean , I’m English teacher(biggner), I’d like to use project based learning , and I’m going to teach students Passive voice by it, i want two or three ideas or activities to learn from them.
plz help me , I’m so confused , and i want to prove my self.

 
 
Posted: 14 March 2011 09:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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PBL provides a context for learning things like grammar and language mechanics. But a project should include more than just one goal like passive voice. For example, in a Spanish class have students create their own Mexican-style soap opera videos, and require their script to include vocabulary, verb tenses, cultural information, whatever you want them to learn.

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Posted: 16 March 2011 12:46 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Grammatical structures and concepts could be a part of a project, but as a by-product of the project, not the main point of it. In a World Language class, we might ask the students to write a story or a comic strip, for example, and in order to write the story, they would have to demonstrate that they can use appropriate vocabulary and linguistic structures, such as the preterit and the imperfect for narrating past events. However, the project would NOT be about the various past tenses - they would be tools to telling the story. I might do a workshop on how the language of the course works - how we structure sentences in passive voice vs active voice, and what the differences are between each kind of sentence - to support students in their writing, but not as an end in itself. What do you all think?

 
 
Posted: 17 March 2012 12:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I’m trying to implement PBL for a masters degree organizational leadership program and I think that if you are creative enough, you can actually use PBL for teaching grammar as well. There are always limits, but people break those limits on a daily basis. Be creative!!

 
 
 
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