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Mediation tasks for learning and assessment

Through cross-linguistic mediation activities, learners are encouraged to make use of the different languages they know. Below, we
provide information about various types of mediation tasks and we give examples of different tasks, discuss the requirements for the completion of such tasks, present the METLA task template (the template the METLA team uses to design and analyse the METLA tasks with information about how to use it), provide information on how to design mediation tasks and how to adapt mediation tasks for your own contexts, and give suggestions on how to assess mediation.
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provide information about the types of mediation tasks and we give examples of different tasks
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discuss task requirements for the completion of such tasks
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present the METLA task template (the template the METLA team uses to design and analyse the METLA tasks with information of how to use it)
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provide information on how to design mediation tasks and how to adapt mediation tasks for your own contexts
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give suggestions on how to assess mediation
Find more information in chapter 3 of the Teaching Guide and by clicking on the following categories:


Types of mediation tasks


Before the design process


The design process


Adapting mediation tasks


Assessing mediation
 

Types of mediation tasks

Mediation tasks are those tasks which require learners to selectively extract information from one text and relay/transfer it into another.

Cross-linguistic mediation tasks, on which this project focuses, are those that require users of languages to relay information from one language to another for a given communicative purpose or to engage in meaning negotiation across languages.

When learners are involved in a mediation task across languages, they first have to process information presented in a text (either verbal or visual) in Language A and then transfer some of its messages in Language B (or other languages, i.e., Language C or D etc.) in a way that is appropriate for the context of situation. More than two languages may be involved. Find more information about the types of cross-linguistic tasks in Chapter 3 of the Teaching Guide.

Examples of cross-linguistic mediation tasks


Retelling a story the learners know in their home language in the language they are learning, or the other way around
Reading the news in Language A and talking about or writing down the main ideas in Language B

Writing an abstract or a report on a foreign language class in other languages for the learners who were not present
Attending a meeting in another part of the country where another language is spoken, then trying to summarise its main points in that language for colleagues who could not attend

Providing cultural input to a tourist who, although they know the local language, cannot manage a situation without this knowledge

More examples are available in the Teaching Guide.