made me decide for an open invitation to SAC users for participating in the project. The
invitation was open to any SAC user who had enough time to work with me during the
months of August and September, since there was a two week period of vacation in
summer. Because of this fact, during July I managed to announce the project, gathered
some students, (18 responded to the invitation), and interacted with them in two different
occasions. That left me with two complete months. Appendix 3 shows the calendar of the
activities held during the whole project.
As the reader will notice from the calendar, the project's programme mainly
consisted of three different types of activities, or sessions: individual∕group sessions
(I∕GS), discussion sessions (DS) and input sessions (IS). The purpose of these sessions
was very different from each other although it was seen that they were complementary in
different ways.
In the input sessions, my objective was to give the participants the necessary
information to understand the project's objective and content. These sessions were
always led by me and they took the form of "normal" classroom sessions where "I
taught them", as one participant put it. The content of the sessions is specified in Fig 5.1.
Appendix 4 contains all the handouts that were given to the participants during these
sessions.
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A. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP SESSIONS (I∕GS) | ||
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Session |
Date |
Content |
|
1 |
7-10 Jul |
Who are you? Your history as a Foreign language learner (based on |
|
2 |
14-17 |
How do you work? The way you work in SAC (based on a 30min free task) |
|
3 |
7 Aug |
“Please, don’t pay attention” Exploration of degrees of attention and the monitoring of it |
|
4 |
11 |
Awareness 1 (Intention) What do you plan to leam? (based on a QUESTIONNAIRE) |
|
5 |
12 |
Awareness 2 (Attention) |
|
6 |
13 |
Awareness 3 (of understanding) |