listen to a story students listen to a story and read aloud in l2 cd, Web, Youtube
listen to a broadcast students listen to a broadcast in l2
(radio, television, news, performance)
Web radio, Youtube
Speaking Activity Types
thirteen activity types focus on helping students build their speaking skills in their target language. For example:
Activity Type Brief Description Possible Technologies
create an audio/video
recording
students create a recording (a commercial for an
invented or real product, a how-to demonstration, a
song, or a rap)
audio recording/video recording, podcast
have an informal debate students debate an issue in l2
audioconference/videoconference, audio
recording
Writing Activity Types
twenty-one activity types focus on supporting students’ development of writing skills in the target language. the activities address both
expository and creative writing skills. For example:
Activity Type Brief Description
create a comic students create a comic strip to apply grammar
functions, culture, or vocabulary
students synthesize information from textbooks,
encyclopedias, or websites and develop a print or
electronic periodical
create a newspaper/
newsletter/news
magazine/brochure
Possible Technologies
Word processor, drawing program, comic creation
software, photoshop
Word processor, desktop publishing software,
Web authoring software, wiki
Reading Activity Types
ten activity types support students’ development of reading skills in the target language. For example:
Activity Type Brief Description Possible Technologies
read a diary/journal students read entries from peers’ diaries or journals
posted online
Web, blog, wikis
students read a comic and relate it to the cultural and/
or political realities represented (“mafalda,” “maitena,”
“asterix,” “ramón”)
Web
read a comic or political
cartoon
Viewing Activity Types
Five activity types allow students to experience the target language and its culture visually. For example:
Activity Type Brief Description Possible Technologies
Watch a performance students attend a live performance or watch a
recorded event (dVd of an indigenous performance)
Web, dVd, Youtube, streaming video
View an exhibit students take physical or virtual field trips (art
museums, cultural artifacts, other students’ works,
school exhibition)
Web, Web-based virtual field trip, videoconference
