Requisitos

1) Students are already familiar with several verb tenses.

2) Students refer to the presentation of Designing Surveys (in the materials section) before class.

3) Students read the project description (in the materials section) before class.

Proceso

Step 1 - Contextualisation 

Class discussion with the help of the project description (in materials) to contextualise the class-specific topic. Students are asked to write their doubts about the project on the board so that they practice question formation and all students can benefit from the explanation. Then, teacher proceeds to clarify the doubts question by question.

Step 2 - Survey design

Students are paired (voluntarily or through teacher discretion). They are asked to write an objective which addresses what they would like to find out about a community of their choice with the confines of the larger community of the university.  Once their objective has been approved by the teacher, students proceed to write 15 questions to include in their survey.

Step 1 - Contextualisation

Class discussion with the help of the document to guide their poster creation (in materials).

Students explore different software tools to decide upon one for the creation of their poster.

Step 2 - Creation

In pairs, students create their poster as per the guidelines and submit it to the teacher at the end of the session.

Actividades Docente

Teacher clarifies doubts about project scope and aims.

Teacher facilitates the creation of the objective through a question and answer technique allowing students to think critically about their formulation.

Teacher answers doubts about language use in question writing.

Teacher engages students in critical thinking about their use of language in the creation of meaning and sense.

Teacher explains the basic aspects of the poster and draws students' attention to the scientific approach of research.

Teacher clarifies doubts about language use in students' production (especially focusing on articles, quantifiers and verb tenses). This is done through critical questioning of students' use of language in negotiating meaning and sense.

Teacher assesses the final product and provides feedback with the use of a rubric (in materials).

Actividades Estudiante

Individually:

Students formulate doubts about the project and listen to the teacher's explanation to the class.

In pairs:

Students formulate an objective for their survey through discussion and narrowing down of choices about the community of their interest.

Students write 15 questions to include in their survey and clarify doubts with the teacher.

For homework, students to apply the survey to the target audience (10 people) through personal interaction in English (where possible).

In pairs:

Students read the document to guide their poster creation.

Students explore software tools and choose one for the creation of their poster.

Students discuss and negotiate the content, visual aspects and the use of language in their creation.

Students submit the finished product to the teacher for assessment.

Evaluación

Assessment of the project is done with the rubric provided in the project description. The questions in the survey and the poster are both considered in the assessment. 

Notas