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Mediation in teaching, learning and assessment

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The METLA task database contains sample (cross)linguistic mediation tasks in different languages for different contexts. Materials are available for these languages: Arabic, Croatian, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish.

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Grocery list (Task 1)

Students should work in pairs (Student A-B). Each student will receive a different worksheet: Student A will receive the Worksheet Grocery List A in Language A. Following the scenario instructions on the worksheet, Student A should relay information related to food and practise polite question forms in Language B. Using the Worksheet Grocery List B, Student B listens carefully to the information introduced by Student A in Language B and then B selects the fruit and vegetables just mentioned by Student A and writes them down in Language B.

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Italian menu (Task 43)

Students will perform a number of mediation activities as they go through the process of reading the menu, choosing, and ordering food and drinks for each member of their family while on holiday in a foreign country. The tasks aim at developing learners’ skills in selecting information from a source text and relaying it into a target text in another language.

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Lost dog (Task 4)

The aim of this activity is to practice a specific vocabulary, introduce students to different text media, and raise intercultural awareness. Students read a short text in Language A about a friend’s missing dog, and they will have to create an Instagram post and a “lost dog” flyer in Language B.

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Proper use of face masks (Task 6)

Students are expected to relay information and explain data about the correct use of face masks with the help of poster diagrams, and also to produce an approximate translation.

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Maths family connect sessions (Task 11)

Students are to relay information and explain data from a poster about Maths evening classes for students accompanied by their parents.

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T-shirt design competition (Task 12)

Students will perform a number of mediation activities as they go through the process of getting to know about a language t-shirt design competition and a final presentation of their work. The tasks aim at developing learners’ skills in selecting information from source texts and relaying it into a target text in another language.

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The Earth’s spheres (Task 41)

This lesson focuses on written mediation (filling in a table). The main tasks aim at: a) developing learners’ skills in selecting information from a source text (a scientific text), b) organising relevant information in specific groups, c) summarising messages into a target language, and d) developing the mediation strategies of paraphrasing, providing synonyms, and distinguishing major from minor information.

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A newcomer in our class (Task 89)

Students welcome a newcomer from Poland in our class. They learn how to describe our classroom rules to the newcomer by using the imperative form of verbs (affirmative or negative form) and the appropriate nouns and adjectives. They practise their skills in comprehending a short text in Language A and producing meaning in Language B. The lesson plan consists of six steps, each containing three steps. Communicating classroom rules to a peer in another language is a common practise which can be taught in the classroom with steps 1-4, in the first part of the lesson plan. The second part (step 5) involves collaboration and creativity, as students make their own posters for our school’s classes. In the final part (step 6) students reflect upon their multilingual experience, producing short texts which will be published in our school’s blog.

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