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lesson. Do the following activity at the end of a just-completed lesson. Time is of essence here because the learners must be able to recall what happened during a lesson before they forget it.
Using Figure 4.1 as a suggested format, design a questionnaire that is appropriate to your class. You can design an open-ended ques- tionnaire in which the learners are free to comment on any learning/ teaching item(s) they wish, or a closed questionnaire in which you es- tablish specific items on which they must focus. If you wish to design an open-ended questionnaire, ask the learners to insert in the blanks any item or items on which they wish to give feedback. If you wish to design a closed questionnaire, insert in the blanks the specific learning/ teaching focus. It can be a particular activity within a lesson, a vocab- ulary item, a grammatical item, a task, an exercise, or a combination of any of these. Feel free to reformulate the statements to make them suitable to the proficiency level of your students.
Learner Perceptions
Name: Class: Date:
Please complete this questionnaire with reference to what we did in class today. Write as much as you can and give specific examples.
1. (Cognitive mismatch): I do not understand or recognize _____.
2. (Communicative mismatch): I understand _____ but I am unable to
express my ideas or give an answer because I am not confident of talking
in class.
3. (Linguistic mismatch): I understand _____ but I am unable to express my
ideas or give an answer because I don’t have enough knowledge of the
language.
4. (Pedagogic mismatch): I am not clear about the main purpose of _____.
5. (Strategic mismatch): I am not clear about the overall approach I need to
take in order to work on _____.
6. (Cultural mismatch): I do not have enough cultural knowledge to _____.
7. (Evaluative mismatch): I try to find out whether what I already know about
_____ is correct or not.
8. (Procedural mismatch): I am not clear about what specific steps I need to
follow in order to _____.
9. (Instructional mismatch): I do not understand the direction given by the
teacher regarding _____.
10. (Attitudinal mismatch): I am not happy with the way the teacher did or
discussed _____.
Figure 4.1