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name: spanish-lesson-planner
description: Rapidly develop comprehensive one-hour synchronous online Spanish lessons aligned with SLA research and CEFR standards. Use when the user requests Spanish lesson plans, teaching materials, or pedagogical guidance for virtual Spanish instruction. ALWAYS conducts diagnostic interview before generating any lesson content. Creates complete lesson plans with timing, CEFR alignment, interactive React artifacts, breakout room activities, and formative assessment strategies.
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# Spanish Lesson Planner

Generate research-based, one-hour synchronous online Spanish lessons optimized for video conferencing platforms. This skill creates complete lesson plans with embedded interactive artifacts, all grounded in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and CEFR standards.

## Critical Protocol: Diagnostic Interview Required

**NEVER generate a lesson without completing the diagnostic interview first.**

Before creating any lesson content, ask the user these questions in sequence:

### 1. Proficiency Level
- Target CEFR level? (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2)
- Homogeneous or mixed-level class?

### 2. Linguistic Focus
Choose one:
- Specific grammatical structure? (e.g., subjunctive triggers, aspect distinctions)
- Functional/notional focus? (e.g., expressing opinions, making requests)
- Lexical focus? (thematic vocabulary, collocations, idioms)

### 3. Learner Demographics
- Age range and learning context (university, professionals, retirees)
- L1 background (English monolinguals, heritage learners, multilingual)
- Class size and dynamics
- Previous exposure and instructional approach
- Learning goals (academic, professional, travel, heritage)

### 4. Instructional Constraints
- Previously taught content requiring spiraling?
- Technology proficiency level
- Specific communicative needs or authentic tasks?
- Known affective factors or learning challenges?

### 5. Pedagogical Preferences
- Inductive vs deductive grammar presentation?
- Ratio of explicit instruction to implicit learning?
- Emphasis on accuracy vs fluency?

## Lesson Structure Framework

Generate complete 60-minute lessons following this modified PPP structure:

### 1. Warm-up (5 min)
- Activate schemata and lower affective filter
- Diagnostic assessment of prior knowledge
- Establish lesson relevance

### 2. Input/Presentation (15 min)
- Flood of comprehensible input at i+1 level
- Noticing activities for target structures
- Consciousness-raising for explicit learning

### 3. Guided Practice (15 min)
- Scaffolded practice: mechanical → meaningful → communicative
- Form-focused tasks with immediate feedback
- Error correction calibrated to proficiency level

### 4. Communicative Production (20 min)
- Information gap activities requiring negotiation of meaning
- Role-plays, jigsaw tasks, problem-solving
- Pushed output for interlanguage development

### 5. Wrap-up (5 min)
- Formative assessment and metacognitive reflection
- Preview homework for spaced retrieval
- Can-do self-assessment

## CEFR Alignment Requirements

For each lesson, specify:
- Target CEFR level with explicit can-do descriptors
- Differentiation strategies for mixed levels (scaffolding + extensions)
- Lexical/grammatical complexity appropriate to level
- Receptive vs productive skills balance
- Strategic competence development

## Synchronous Platform Optimization

Design activities leveraging:
- **Breakout rooms**: Clear instructions, timing, monitoring strategies
- **Annotation tools**: Collaborative activities, visual scaffolding
- **Screen share**: Input delivery, modeling, think-alouds
- **Chat box**: Lower-anxiety participation, backchannel, written production
- **Polling**: Comprehension checks, formative assessment
- **Virtual whiteboard**: Co-construction of language, concept mapping
- **Gallery view**: Monitoring, equitable participation

## Interactive Artifacts to Generate

Create React-based artifacts calibrated to learner demographics:

### Vocabulary Acquisition
- Spaced repetition flashcards with visual support
- Cognate highlighting and collocational context
- Frequency-based selection

### Morphosyntactic Practice
- Conjugation drills with immediate feedback
- Paradigm visualization
- Error analysis targeting L1 transfer

### Pragmatic Competence
- Situational dialogues with register variation
- Cultural notes on speech acts and politeness

### Phonological Awareness
- Minimal pair discrimination
- Prosody practice (question intonation, stress patterns)

### Listening Comprehension
- Graduated authentic audio with pre/while/post tasks
- Bottom-up and top-down processing activities

### Reading Strategies
- Extensive reading with glossing
- Intensive reading for noticing target forms

### Gamified Tasks
- Points-based competitions (calibrated for adults)
- Avoid infantilization while maintaining engagement

### Interactional Tasks
- Information gap, opinion gap, reasoning gap activities

## Output Specifications

Each lesson plan must include:

### Learning Objectives
- Measurable CEFR-aligned can-do statements
- Terminal and enabling objectives

### Detailed Timing
- Phase-by-phase breakdown with pedagogical rationale
- Transition strategies between activities

### Complete Materials
- All handouts, slides, audio scripts
- Tech setup requirements and troubleshooting
- Instructor preparation notes

### Instructor Support
- Input delivery scripts with embedded comprehension checks
- Anticipated learner errors (interlanguage patterns + L1 transfer)
- Formative assessment checkpoints with contingencies
- Differentiation notes for struggling/advanced learners

### Assessment & Follow-up
- Homework for spaced practice and consolidation
- Flipped classroom preparation materials
- Teacher reflection prompts for post-lesson analysis

## Pedagogical Foundations

Lessons ground in:
- **Krashen**: Input Hypothesis, comprehensible input at i+1
- **CLT**: Meaningful interaction over mechanical drills
- **TBLT**: Focus on form within communicative tasks
- **Swain**: Output Hypothesis, pushed production
- **VanPatten**: Processing Instruction for grammar acquisition
- **Interactionist theory**: Negotiation of meaning
- **Sociocultural theory**: ZPD and scaffolding

## Linguistic Specifications

- Pedagogical metalanguage appropriate to learner sophistication
- Authentic materials (Peninsular Spanish default; adjust per learner needs)
- Contrastive analysis with L1 for error anticipation
- Treatment of dialectal variation when relevant
- Sociolinguistic competence (T-V distinction, registers, regional variation)
- Pragmatic appropriateness in target culture

## Example Lesson Demonstrations

For sample lessons showing the complete diagnostic-to-output workflow, see:
- `references/example-A1-daily-routine.md` - Present tense with university students
- `references/example-A2-preterite-imperfect.md` - Aspect with working professionals
- `references/example-B1-subjunctive.md` - WEIRDO triggers with heritage learners
- `references/example-B2-conditionals.md` - Si-clauses with DELE exam prep
- `references/example-C1-academic-register.md` - Argumentation with graduate students

Each example shows:
1. Diagnostic questions asked
2. User responses provided
3. How responses shaped pedagogical decisions
4. Complete customized lesson plan with artifacts