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Fourthly, she had a helpful activity when giving students useful expressions for speaking in the post- listening stage instead of asking them to star to making.. Hoàng Thị Hoài Giang 1..[r]
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Teaching Journal 1:
Student: Hoàng Thị Hoài Giang
The first class I observed is a listening skill class at CENLET Centre at Hai Ba Trung High School The teacher used Life-line (Pre- Intermediate) The lesson was about listening and speaking in a clothes shop It’s from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on 24th September, 2010 with 40 students at level B Through this lesson, I can
learn some good things; also there is something that can be improved
The first one is that the teacher had an interesting warm-up activity She raised exciting questions to involve students more in her lecture So students were quite involved in her lesson from beginning But the pre-teach vocabulary was quite different from those I have learnt at college The teacher just wrote down the new words on black board and translated them into Vietnamese It is better for her to elicit new words and then explain them, give real objects or using posters … Also the choral repetition is not good enough She just model one time for both easy and difficult words She can model more than one more time for all of new words especially for long and difficult ones
Secondly, the way she used blackboard is good She had a clear, loud voice She used simple language that was suitable for her students’ level Also she had a balance of using English and Vietnamese but, I think, she is not a good model of English It seemed there is also more dialect in her voice
Thirdly, she is an enthusiastic teacher But it became her weakness This made her very teacher-centered She should let her students to have more time on working in pairs or in groups Also she can receive the answers from different students instead of explaining all things for her students
Fourthly, she had a helpful activity when giving students useful expressions for speaking in the post- listening stage instead of asking them to star to making
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conversations She elicited and suggested students to give questions and answers as if they had been in clothes shops I think this worked enough for her students
However, she was very teacher- centered This made her class not keep going on to the end Also the way she let the students listen to the tape was not good Instead of letting the tape going, the teacher often used “pause” button in while- listening stage This can help her students in note-taking but it is not a good method for listening In addition, when checking the answers, the teacher just gave comments for eight first questions, not for all of the questions She had a good thing is that she asked the students to guess to correct order but she did not give to her students how to guess the right correct, just asking them to guess the order This could be very helpful if the teacher give them the tips (the guide for guessing and for both listening)