Lucky Language Clover

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Lucky Language Clover
Contributors Christian Köppe, Mariëlle Nijsten
Last modification May 16, 2017
Source Köppe and Nijsten (2012)[1][2][3]
Pattern formats OPR Alexandrian
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Also Known As: The Four Skills

You are thinking about the tasks you want to include in the course design and want to ensure that they also cover the Content-Obligatory Language and the Content-Compatible Language aspects appropriately.

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Exposing the students to language comprehension only — reading and listening — is not sufficient for creating a lasting effect in learning the foreign language. They might be able to understand content input, but unable to produce content output in the foreign language.

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Therefore: Promote reading and listening, and let students write and speak in the foreign language as well. Include all four types of linguistic competences in your course design.

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This requires that you have included Buffers in your planning.

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  1. Pattern first published in Köppe, C., & Nijsten, M. (2012). A pattern language for teaching in a foreign language: part 1. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP 2012) (p. 10). New York:ACM.
  2. Patlet mentioned in Köppe, C., & Nijsten, M. (2012). A pattern language for teaching in a foreign language: part 2. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP 2012). New York:ACM.
  3. Patlet also mentioned in Köppe, C., & Nijsten, M. (2012). Towards a Pattern Language for Teaching in a Foreign Language. In Proceedings of the VikingPLoP 2012 conference. Saariselkä, Finland.