SWCOLT 2025

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) practices emphasize the integration of “real-life” or “real-world” tasks inside the classroom. However, CLT strategies tend to highlight tasks that typically cannot be found in the classroom and de-emphasizes the authentic language events that can and do happen inside the classroom. This presentation will highlight the important conversations and contexts that naturally occur in the classroom that language teachers can leverage for added proficiency building opportunities. Participants will experience and learn how to add micro-structures to their existing tasks to provide their students opportunities to acquire social-emotional and communicative skills in the target language.