Class (1 Session) In Which Nativist Ideas Can Be Reflected And Applied

3. ACTIVITY IN CLASS (1 session) IN WHICH NATIVIST IDEAS CAN BE REFLECTED AND APPLIED

Subject Area Teaching Unit nº Title
English language acquisition Two Nativism in the classroom

Timing: 1hour.
Number of sessions planned: 1

Introduction
1.- Nativist theories of N. Chomsky has not been used in classroom, and for this reason it is a challenge for us to develop a working session inthe class based on their theoretical principles.

2.- We are intervening with children from first grade (6-7 years) using a mixture of interactive group work tasks and individual work taskswithout forgetting that group work tasks has its disadvantages; students will use their native language, students errors will be reinforced in small groups, some learners prefer to work alone andteachers cannot monitor all groups at once, but also, interactive group work tasks has its advantages to generate interactive language, offering an embracing affective climate and promoting learnerresponsibility and autonomy .

3.- Using the conceptual field; classification of animals with simple criteria herbivorous or carnivorous we are going to try to stimulate their Language AcquisitionDevice, focusing on their own learning and developing their own competence and their different ways to make performances.

Learning Objectives Evaluation Criteria
1. Lowering their initialanxiety The degree of success and involvement in the following activities we will show that the first activity has achieved its objective.
2. Developing Metacognitive strategies The percentage ofcorrect answers will show us the innate ability that children have to make associations of concepts and semantic fields freely.
3. Motivating their own performance Showing them how they can relateelements to one another becoming aware of the relationships between herbivorous and carnivorous



Contents

1.Types of animals according to their feeding, herbivorous and carnivorous.
2. Other...