{"id":69,"date":"2015-06-19T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/19\/activity-backchannel-bingo\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:32:37","slug":"activity-backchannel-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/06\/19\/activity-backchannel-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity – Backchannel Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a conversation analysis task for learners which might form baseline information for teaching ‘active listening’, backchannelling and body language. It was inspired by this post<\/a>\u00a0by Olya Sergeeva (hat tip to @eilymurphy<\/a>) that I didn’t have time to implement fully so tweaked to my own needs.
\nUpdate (10 October 2016):<\/strong> There are two leveled sheets, one for elementary\/pre-intermediate (MS Word<\/a> or PDF<\/a>)\u00a0and one for intermediate levels and up\u00a0(MS Word<\/a>\u00a0or PDF<\/a>).
\nOne student observes two or more students having a conversation about a given topic or one of their own choosing, checking the boxes each time one of the conversation events occurs. Use a set time for this; I’d say 3 minutes at least and certainly less than 10.
\nAt the end, observing students report which boxes were not checked. This can then be taught\/coached. You could collect the information from the sheets and repeat the activity after a certain number of classes to monitor improvement (or lack thereof).
\nI hope this is useful. If you do try it, let me know how it went in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a conversation analysis task for learners which might form baseline information for teaching ‘active listening’, backchannelling and body language. It was inspired by this post\u00a0by Olya Sergeeva (hat tip to @eilymurphy) that I didn’t have time to implement fully so tweaked to my own needs. Update (10 October 2016): There are two leveled sheets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,7,12],"tags":[169,203],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}