Thematic unit on Aztec, Incan and Mayan culture
dc.contributor.author | Gratton, Carly Marie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-18T18:39:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-18T18:39:22Z | |
dc.date.graduationmonth | May | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04-18 | |
dc.date.published | 2014 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The principal objective of this paper is to provide a thematic teaching unit that explores the Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultures of Latin America, designed for a level II Spanish course. It contains theoretical underpinnings for teaching language, culture and literature while incorporating concepts related to the development of communicative competence; processing instruction; the use of scaffolding in the zone of proximal development; target language instruction; and the inclusion of authentic materials and language in the classroom. The classroom management strategies explained and used throughout the unit include pre, during and post-reading activities; small group activities that help to develop communicative competence through negotiation of meaning and interactional feedback; focused tasks and collaborative output tasks; the use of structured input, structured output and information exchange; the PACE approach to grammar teaching; and the incorporation of authentic aural and written texts. Lesson plans for an eighteen day unit consisting of 40 minute classes are outlined; the lesson objective, necessary materials, time needed for each activity, and expected results of each lesson are included. Each lesson activity is made clear through a description of the activity and instructions for the teacher. The daily lesson plans contain authentic and teacher-created materials that can be found in the appendices section. At the end of the thematic unit, students complete cumulative activities that relate indigenous cultures to present-day life in Latin America through investigating the influence of Aztec words on the Spanish and English languages, analyzing a poem about Peru, and reading an article about discrimination against Mayan descendants in Central America, Mexico and the U.S. | en_US |
dc.description.advisor | Douglas K. Benson | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Modern Languages | en_US |
dc.description.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17331 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Kansas State University | en |
dc.subject | Maya | en_US |
dc.subject | Aztec | en_US |
dc.subject | Inca | en_US |
dc.subject | Authentic materials | en_US |
dc.subject | Unit | en_US |
dc.subject | Communicative competence | en_US |
dc.subject | Teaching literature | en_US |
dc.subject.umi | Education, General (0515) | en_US |
dc.subject.umi | Language, Modern (0291) | en_US |
dc.subject.umi | Teacher Education (0530) | en_US |
dc.title | Thematic unit on Aztec, Incan and Mayan culture | en_US |
dc.type | Report | en_US |