On August 05, 2020, I taught, with my teaching partner, my tenth and final one-hour lesson with a group of three students enrolled in an Advanced Oral Communication class. The objective of this lesson was that students would be able to recall, refresh, and reflect on learning objectives of lessons from the semester. This was to be accomplished through diagnosing their own pronunciation difficulties and generating a spoken text to improve upon these difficulties; competing in a conversation challenge to improve on their communicative fluency; and reflecting on their learning experience to appreciate their improvement as well as develop personal learning strategies for future courses. This lesson was largely successful.
Month: August 2020
On July 29, 2020, I taught, with my teaching partner, my ninth one-hour lesson with a group of four students enrolled in an Advanced Oral Communication class. The objective of this lesson was that students would be able to use functional language to request service, assistance, or accommodations, particularly in the context of university life. This was to be accomplished through brainstorming requests they might make in their experience at university; identifying definitions for vocabulary terms used in student requests; practicing given requests with increasing demands to generate language; and, finally, presenting self-created role-play requests for campus services, assistance, and accommodations. This lesson was highly successful.