van der Velden, M. (2024). Cambridge Linguaskill preparation: teaching “open cloze” questions with ludic activities
Metadata
- Author: Monika van der Velden
- Reviewed by: Martin Sedaghat, Abdulsamad Humaidan
- Volume and page numbers: 6 (p. 21 – 43)
- Date of publication: 2024/04/09
- Keywords: Linguaskill, Ludic Language Pedagogy, Open cloze, SLA, Test preparation
- Cite: van der Velden, M. (2024). Cambridge Linguaskill preparation: teaching “open cloze” questions with ludic activities. Ludic Language Pedagogy, 6, 21-43. https://doi.org/10.55853/llp_v6Wt1
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Key Points
- Background: In the French University of Technology where I am currently teaching English, I was able to implement a lesson plan created for the EVO2022 LLP course. Open cloze is one of the tasks on the Cambridge Linguaskill tests. This task in particular is dreaded by my students.
- Aim: Show a practical example of how ludic activities can be used for official test preparation, in this case, the Cambridge Linguaskill business test, and help students succeed on the test.
- Methods: To make open cloze tasks more enjoyable for my students and make them want to work on them, ludic activities were included in the lessons.
- Results: By the end of the lessons, students felt more comfortable with open cloze tasks and results improved.
- Conclusion: Ludic activities can be a valuable asset in language test preparation.