Designing Action-Oriented Scenarios with AALE and LITE Resources
Who this is for: Teachers ready to move from AOA theory into hands-on scenario design and implementation using LITE’s resources.
Entry point: You understand the Action-Oriented Approach in principle and are ready to design or adapt a scenario for your classroom, but are not sure where to start or how to sequence the steps.
1. Get oriented to scenarios and tasks 💡
Before building anything, read the AALE infosheets to understand what action-oriented plurilingual tasks and scenarios look like. Pay attention to how tasks are structured, how stages are sequenced, and how entry points are built into each phase.
- The Action-oriented Approach: From theory to practice
- Action-oriented Plurilingual Tasks
- Tasks in the Action-oriented Approach
2. Build or adapt a scenario 🛠️
Start with a task your students genuinely need to accomplish (e.g., planning an event or navigating a school situation). Use the AALE infosheets on scenarios to guide your design choices, or adapt an existing scenario by preserving its structure and replacing the content with material relevant to your learners’ context, level, and languages. Check out LITE’s scenario gallery for more options.
3. Set proficiency targets using CEFR descriptors 🎯
Use the AALE descriptor infosheets to identify can-do statements that align with each step or culminating task in your scenario. Start with the introductory infosheet, then move to exploring and selecting, using, and creating descriptors in your design.
- Introduction to Descriptors
- Exploring and Selecting Descriptors
- Using CEFR Descriptors in Scenario Design
- Creating Your Own Descriptors Selection
4. Embed the scenario into your existing teaching unit ➡️
Rather than treating the scenario as an add-on, identify where it can serve as the culminating task for a unit you already teach. Review examples from teachers and students that demonstrate how this integration can shape the lesson sequence from the start.