The class on 22th was another successful one. It was my 8th hour of teaching the level 4 ESL oral communicative class. We had 4 Chinese students in the class while a Chinese student and a Japanese student were absent. The goal of this class was to encourage the students to share their own opinions about travelling with discussion language, summarize opinions, and practice their listening skills in capturing information. Before the warm-up activity, we did another survey with our students. Also, we did a group discussion session and presentation session. We also included a listening practice and a post-presentation instruction after the presentations, and we finished the class with an exit ticket.
In the student survey, we asked the students to evaluate the class activity speed, the level of their interests in the activities, and the vocabulary we used in class. The students’ feedback was quite positive. Also, according to what the students stated about their feelings in the classes and what they have learned in the last two months, they did enjoy our classes and improved their English skills in our classes. In our last survey which occurred a month ago, a couple of the students was not comfortable with the activity speed. My teaching partner and I did some adjustments about the activity speed, and I’m very glad to see that the students have been feeling good after the adjustment.
Aside from practicing the summarizing phrases we taught in the last class, we included a few new ones this time. The students mastered them quickly and were able to use them correctly to summarize the opinions of the video speaker’s and their partners’. I have been feeling that our class is like an encouraging and supportive community. All of the students participated actively and voluntarily in group discussions, summarizing practices, listening practices, and pronunciation practices.
This time, my partner and I used a different exit activity. Throughout the class, we take notes of the words that were mispronounced by each student. After the listening practice, we assigned each student two words and practiced the pronunciations with them. For our exit activity, we asked each student to make a sentence with at least one of the words that were assigned to them. The activity went quite smoothly. Each student was able to pronounce their assigned word correctly, and most of them managed to use both the two words correctly in their sentences.
It will be the other evaluation of my teaching next week. My partner and I will plan a similar class and I will keep encouraging the students to actively participate in terms of thinking actively, speaking much, and practice confidently in the class.