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Main Task
Finding a good Hispanic restaurant in Chicago.
Target Language Spanish.
Language Level Intermediate (or higher)
Estimated timeDuring the semester
SettingMostly outside the classroom (Side class project)
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For this task, students must open a personal account
(or being member) in these websites:
Delicious.com Voxopop.com
Blogger.com Skype Wikispaces.com Weebly.com
Map Quest or Google maps Hot potatoes (Only for instructors)
Tutorial:http://672268693831277066.weebly.com/tutorials.html
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Additionally, students have to create a worldfile specifically for this task. In this file, theycan copy and paste selected information fromthe website of the course.
This info selection should be in accordancewith their personal choices for these activities.
Instructor may ask students to turn in this filein order to check students involvement andeffort put on the activity).
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General
To foster L2 learning through these four aspects:a) TL cultural involvement through autonomous/guide online research.
b) Authentic exposure to TL .
c) Blog/wiki TL interaction.
d) Post-test.
Specific objectives.
To identify, process, and produce useful Spanish vocabulary and grammar
structures related to order food in a TL restaurant.
To share personal opinions by interacting and producing L2 output with
peer students through voice and written blog interaction.
To elicit a cultural approach to Hispanic food.
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The main task is divided in 9 subtasks
Activity #1: Finding Information
Instructor have to open/create a course website on
Delicious.com, including online material about Hispanic
restaurants and food in Chicago.
Once this website is created, students have to visit it and:
1. read, watch, listen, select, and process the content from the website.
2. start with their list of useful expressions and vocabulary in a labeled
word document in which students must type/write down vocabulary
and TL expressions related to the topic.
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Students have to select one of the restaurants displayed in class
Deliciouswebsite.
It may be necessary that the instructor first agree with the restaurant
personnel, asking/requiring to the waiter staff to try talking Spanish with
the students as much as possible.
Students have to visit the restaurant website, find the menu,
and read the dish descriptions included on this.
Then, each student will have to pick up at least one choice/dish,
and include its description in the personal word file.
http://www.loscomales.com/catering.php
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Students has to physically go to this restaurant and try to orderher/his food by using Spanish language as much as possible.
Students are also expected to find directions to the restaurant by usingGoogle maps or any other map searcher: http://672268693831277066.weebly.com/tasks.html
These students should use TL grammar structures to completetheir food order:
http://672268693831277066.weebly.com/grammar.html
Students may obtain these TL structures from the grammar andpodcast tab from Weebly site:
http://672268693831277066.weebly.com/podcasts.html
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Students have to list the food items they got in their personal word document.
Then, they have to create a written description of the whole dish they had andpost it on a regular online blog: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3110714392238374369#allposts/postNum=1
After that, students have to orally post this description on an online voice blog: http://www.voxopop.com/group/6f6bbdb2-3734-4cb0-8338-04506483c7a2
In order to create this description, students have to answer these questions:What type of food did the dish contain? How did it look like? Could it be
compared to any dish from the students culture?
Learners have to employ grammar structures such as: sto contiene (It contains), el plato esta hecho/compuesto de (This
dish is made of), los ingredients son (The ingredients are), etc.
At the end, each student must have at least one spoken post on Voxopop.com,and one written post on Blogger.com
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After posting their comments on the course blogs, each student has to selectone oral and one written post/review from one of their classmates.
Then, students have to look at the restaurant website selected by theclassmate: before students can comment about another students post/review, she/he has to do
little research about the restaurant that was visited by the classmate.
After this, learners have to comment/discuss on the two written and oralcomments that they selected from Bloggerand Voxopop.
Students have to agree or disagree with others reviews and opinions by usinggrammar structures such as:
estoy de acuerdo/en desacuerdo con (I agree/disagree with), me gusta/no megusta tu opinin porque (I like/dislike your opinion since ), es interesante/impotante que (It is interesting/important that), etc.
At the end, each student must have at least one spoken reaction to the selectedpeers comments on Voxopop.com, and one written reaction/comment on
Blogger.com.
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Each learner has to select one of their classmates to hold asynchronous online-discussion via Skype. It is recommended that students choose the same partner with whom they had
engaged in conversation during the blog interaction Students have to open an account in Skype: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
This discussion must be about the restaurants that the two
students personally visited.
Students are supposed to ask and answer questions such as: Cmo te pareco el restaurante? (How did you like the restaurant?), Que tal la
comida all? (How about the food?), Que tal el servicio all? (How about the
costumer service?), S est bien ubicado? (How about the restaurant location?), etc.
During the interaction, the two students are supposed to: ask for language clarification when it is necessary, provide/receive corrected feedback between them.Be engaged in negotiation of meaning with the partner.
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Each students lists of words and grammar expressions must
be posted on the course wikispace created by the instructor. Each individual word must have a definition. http://hispanicrestaurantsinchicago.wikispaces.com/Bienvenidos
Students have to post any language expression they found
recurrent or useful for interaction in a restaurant context.
It is expected that students post words such as:Arepa (a sort of corn cake), Chorizo (pork sausage), etc;
And grammar expressions such as:Dnde queda el bao? (Where is the restroom?), Me podra dar otra
servilleta, (Could I have a another napkin), Me puede dar otracerveza/gaseosa (Can I have another beer/soda), etc.
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Students must post their own conclusions about the activity andtheir language experience.
Composition-like task
They should get these conclusions by answering the next twoquestions:What was the most interesting thing that you learnt in this activity?
What is now your opinion about Latino restaurants and food in Chicago?What did you learn about the Hispanic culture? How was your cross-cultural experience?
This posting must also be done on the course wikispace before
the testing day. http://hispanicrestaurantsinchicago.wikispaces.com/Bienvenidos
The instructor have to provide online feedback to students fromtheir conclusions/compositions through the wiki site: It can be done just by writing observations and comments on the
students document/text in the same wikispace.
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Students must take a review quiz about the vocabulary
and grammar structures that they all posted on thecourse wikispace.
This test will be posted on the course Weebly site.
http://672268693831277066.weebly.com/quizes.html
The instructor also have to collect the word documentcreated by each student in order to evaluate students
evolution during the task.
Corrected feedback is expected by the instructor forboth the quiz and the word document.
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