STAGE | PROCEDURE | PRINCIPLES | OBJECTIVES |
TEXT COLLECTION | Find or create potentially engaging texts (written or spoken) | Affective engagement is a prerequisite for durable learning. | To build a library of texts with the potential for engaging learners. |
TEXT SELECTION | Select a text suitable in level and theme for your target learners. | Text need to be matched with learners. | To find a text with the potential for useful engagement for the target learners. |
TEXT EXPERIENCE | Read or listen to the text experientially. | Apprehension should come before comprehension. | To start from an experience which you can try to help the learners to approximate. |
READINESS ACTIVITIES | Devise activities which could help the learners achieve mental readiness for experiencing the text. | Experiencing a text is a multidimensional process involving sensory imaging, inner speech and the establishment of affective and cognitive connections. | To help the learners to experience a target language text in the multidimensional way they would automatically use when experiencing a L1 text. |
EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES | Devise whilst-reading or listening activities which help de learners to process the text in an experiential way. | L2 learners tend to process a text in a studial way in an insecure attempt to achieve total comprehension. | To help the learners to move away from their tendency to study texts so that they can engage with the text instead experientially. |