Craig_CO_#1

On Tuesday, October 21 I observed Professor Kim's Group 4 listening class. The lesson planned was laid out as such:

<lesson plan>
10 mins: Schema Building
5 mins: Vocabulary
30 min: Dicto Comp
5 min: Error Correction

Professor Kim started the class by addressing a "beautiful mistake" made by a student in the previous class. The student stated that he was going to take "a note" in class. Prof. Kim then gave the dictionary definition of note, as well as all of the uses in contexts with examples for each. ie. He took note of the license plate number after the car wreck.

I noticed very early in the lesson that there was not much of what I call 'call and answer' teaching. I think this is due to the high listening level of the students. Professor Kim simply used a yes or no as verbal confirmation to asses wether the students understood the concept being discussed or not. I think this could be possibly problematic due to a single student being singled out for not understanding a concept.

Every time students were discussing amongst themselves there was a clock actively counting down, this ensured that students stayed on track and their conversation was progressing.

Schema Building:
Partner up: discuss the main characters of the show "Friends". This worked because at least every other students had had seen the show and could describe each of the main characters. (2-3 min)

Discuss: Proposal in your home country. (~4 min)

Show: Clip from Friends(3-4 min)
           Clarify the situation (Joey is buying an engagement ring and has asked a female character to                come along to help him).

Vocabulary: Pick several low frequency words from the clip and define them both in context and with other examples.(Haggle, spoiler, from here on out, guard, rather(adv.)

Dicto-comp: students get into small groups and try to recreate the scene with the students acting as the character. This may include replaying the video.

Act: groups of students will go to the front of the class and act out the scene.

After each group acts out the scene Professor Kim corrected the mistakes made in both in grammar and intonation.