Anderson 2017 Context analysis practice A lesson planning model for language teacher education. What is ‘Context-Analysis-Practice (Evaluation)'? CAP(E) is a lesson planning model similar in many ways to Engage, Study, Activate. Lesson planning models are a fantastic way to help you plan your lesson and structure your class. They can help you think through the stages that you and your students will go through in the class and help to focus on learning.
Like most of the other well-known models, it has three stages — context, analysis and practice — along with an optional fourth stage — evaluation. Here’s a lowdown of the different stages, how it works, and how it differs from other planning models. We already have several three-stage planning models, so why do we need another? So does CAP(E) add anything new? Jason Anderson, the creator of the model, observed that none of the current models of lesson planning explicitly incorporate the idea of context. As a result, a model which explicitly incorporates context will potentially be more helpful to learners and teachers.
Let’s take a closer look at each stage in the CAP(E) model. 1. 2. CAP – Context, Analysis, Practice: A lesson planning model for language teacher education – Jason Anderson: Teacher educator & author. The first of 2 articles on the 3-stage lesson planning model that I propose has just been published in the IATEFL Teacher Education Newsletter. In the article I argue that CAP is more appropriate and more relevant for today’s teaching and teacher education courses than alternatives such as PPP, ESA, etc. It’s also the topic I’ll be talking on at IATEFL Glasgow 2017 (scroll down for details). Click here to read the article. I also provide a little initial data from trainee teachers who found it useful, offer example CAP lesson skeletons from my forthcoming book the Trinity CertTESOL Companion and also link it to text-based language teaching, an approach that is fairly well established in Australia, but still poorly known in the UK.
What are the three phases of CAP? The three phases of CAP are simple, logical and easy to remember as follows: Context Analysis Language features are noticed and analysed explicitly for meaning, form, pronunciation and usage/use as appropriate. Practice Evaluation.