Speaking Production!

Saturday  Morning  Class, Level 1.

You really have no favorite food, no routine on the weekends and wear  nothing else than   jeans during summer?

A  matter of words and sounds.

This is a group in which most students   work very hard at everything, except at oral production.  Only few participate efficiently all the time. My perception had been that they have been feeling  intimidated by those ones who participate willingly and nicely, and with self confidence .  In the  previous class the lack of oral participation was brought up by me, and suggestions were given by students since not having enough vocabulary and  lack of self-confidence on pronunciation were the main issues   expressed by the them  during  the  oral self assessment session.   We all agreed that we need to increase the amount of exercises on pronunciation, and give vocabulary for its previous learning  before a unit is presented.

 Saturday afternoon Class, Level 1.

Blended  learning on-line participation Journal entry. 

Oral production online.

 I had two of my blended learning course students participating for the second time in   Skype considering we have a ready had about 14  participation so far during the semester. These tow learners did an awesome pair work  during this second participations and I told them right away about how well they had done the activity, mainly in pronunciation.  I encourage them to continue participating. They said they had prepared   with time and in the ways I had suggested it in class. One of them mentioned that she doesn´t like English because of bad experiences she had during High School – I think the teacher made fun of her once about  a word used incorrectly when she was saying good bye.  Guess what?  After their awesome participation in Skype, these tow peculiar learners continue rebelliously   talking a lot to each other in Spanish, but are showing an improvement on   commitment towards working in-classroom sessions.  I am looking forward to have them participating in Skype this Wednesday.