TCSOL Practicum!

"1 Spring 2014

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION !
Observers name: YING WANG! Class observed: Grade One (Teacher Xu)! Date of observation: 03/06/2014! Duration of observation: 65minutes!

I. What transpired in class!

Part One: Review! Procedures:! 1. Teacher showed the Form () A ()SB and examples.! e.g. ! Teacher asked students to read the examples one by one, and then read together.! 2. Teacher provided several sentences with some parts omitted, and asked students to practice in groups and then present the answers by calling.! e.g. _________________! ____________________! 3. Recitation: Students recited the text learnt before one by one. Then teacher showed the main structure of the text and asked them to recite together.!

Part Two: New contents! Procedures:! 1. Teacher led students to go over the new words, and explain some important words. ! 2. Students have been divided into groups to read the new text rst. Then teacher chose students to read the text. ! 3. Teacher asked questions about the text to help students to comprehend the meaning and forms of the text.! 4. Interpretation of forms!

a. sv: sv for a little period of time! b. compare ! Approaches: Read examples / Discuss in groups / Fill in blanks / Complete sentences!

II.

Reections !

This was a typical traditional language teaching class. Words and structures were the focus of the class. Although there was not enough input for the class. However, the teacher has tried many ways to give learners corrective feedback to promote the learners expression of the language although the expression still focused on forms. For the pronouncing errors, teacher corrected the learners immediately and explicitly. For the structure errors, teacher used metalinguistic feedback. For the expression problems, teacher applied elicitation to help learners to form their language. The output was not very apparent on the respective of communication, but the learners have learnt a lot on the respective of forms and structures.! On the basis of the textbook, each unit has one topic. For example, the topic for this unit is hobby. From the topic, we will consider the contents must be related to real life very well. However, there are a lot of new words and structures that must be taught in each uint during limited teaching period. As a result, form-focus teaching is the main teaching approach nowadays. In addition, it is not easy for teacher to use task-based teaching to teach so many contents in one unit. However, as a language teacher, we should still try to use the approach to focus on learners communication ability.! task-based