PRAG-ME Getting Started (Stage 1)

STAGE 1: GETTING STARTED


[PRAG-ME]	[Getting started]	English		[C1]	[2hours & 20 mins]
STAGE 1: Getting started
Dates: Week 1, from __________ to __________
Deadline: End of Week 1.
Goals:			Becoming familiar with project and building the online community
DESCRIPTION OF TASKS:
Step 1. Introductory session			Explanation of key concepts about relational identities RIs, terms referred to them (TRIs), and semantic field/frame analysis. Also clarification of the procedure to follow and the technologies involved in the learning experience.

Step 2. Diagnostic test			Delivery of students’ applications for participation, completion of initial communicative and cultural profile descriptor/test with questions about their socio-cultural profile and a brief task where applicants have to classify a given list of standard roles according to three communicative settings (family, social and professional) and to add new ones from their own experience.
Step 3. Group formation			Taking into account their profiles and answers students are organized in groups (around 4 students in each group). They vote a “group exchange coordinator” and one or two “information controller/s”. They also exchange their mobile phone numbers or email addresses and create a chat or exchange platform.

Step 4. Ice-breaking information		They introduce themselves and have their first synchronous/asynchronous exchange on their opinions about the contents of the introductory session.