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  • Chapter Six - A Place for Practice in the Language Classroom

  • Rosemary Erlam, University of Auckland, Jenefer Philp, Lancaster University, Diana Feick, University of Auckland
  • Book:
    Teaching Languages to Adolescent Learners
    Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 113-134
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    Highlighting the lack of opportunities to use and practise language that is often typical of the foreign language classroom, a lesson is described where learners had opportunity to consolidate learning and develop fluency in using language they had previously covered in class. Drawing on Ortega (2007), the principles of optimal practice are described and examples from the classroom show how ‘optimal practice’ may have consolidated language learning, but also led to new learning. Perspectives from both the teacher and students are included. The importance of incorporating opportunities for practice in the language classroom is discussed and, here, as elsewhere in the book, Nation’s four strands (Nation, 2007) are presented as a way of integrating balance into a classroom language programme.