Other Activity Types in CLT
Many other activity types have been used in CLT, including the following:
Task-completion activities: puzzles, games, map-reading, and other kinds of
classroom tasks in which the focus is on using one’s language resources to
complete a task.
Information-gathering activities: student-conducted surveys, interviews, and
searches in which students are required to use their linguistic resources to collect information.
Opinion-sharing activities: activities in which students compare values, opinions, or beliefs, such as a ranking task in which students list six qualities in order of importance that they might consider in choosing a date or spouse.
Information-transfer activities: These require learners to take information
that is presented in one form, and represent it in a different form. For example,
they may read instructions on how to get from A to B, and then draw a map
showing the sequence, or they may read information about a subject and then
represent it as a graph.
Reasoning-gap activities: These involve deriving some new information from
given information through the process of inference, practical reasoning, etc.
For example, working out a teacher’s timetable on the basis of given class
timetables.