domingo, 8 de mayo de 2016

My first experience with Basic English Students Third period


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On May 6th, I was in my first teaching practice with Basic English students in UNICAES. Students were around 25 in total. It was around 9:15 am. The sitting arrangement was in a horse shoe. This time the classroom was appropriate to the number of students. My tutor was sitting at one side in classroom. I was about to develop the last activity of the class, so I asked students to join in trios (I chose the trios), and to stand up. All student were followed directions some slower than others but all were working. After that, I explained them that they have to develop a discussion about the best clothing item to wear for every occasion. Some of them were kind of afraid to start the conversation, so in some groups I helped them to start the conversation by giving my own opinion, and they immediately did it. They were discussing about five minutes when I asked them to choose the best idea from their trio, and they did it. One by one representative from the trios was giving his or her opinions about the discussion using the target vocabulary.  
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I noticed that the students were afraid to speak at the beginning of the discussion.

Based on what I observed, I think that probably it was because they were not too comfortable with their trios because I chose them.



The next time I teach this lesson, I will give them the chance to choose their classmates.

I observed that all the representatives were participating and sharing their ideas.
It is necessary to give student the chance to speak and expose their ideas.
I will give always plan on my futures lessons activities in which students could have the opportunity to speak.

2 comentarios:

  1. hi francy.
    In my opinion, to have basic students talking for five minutes is a big challenge and you did. Some times, they might feel afraid about speaking using the L2 because they have lack of vocabulary but if you select the people they are to work with you have the opportunity to strategically arrange the groups in order to have different characters together to help them in their learning process.

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  2. Hello.
    I think that you can provide examples and help students when they have to speaK because it is really difficult for basic students. Nice! :)

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