Erika CO #1

I observed a speaking class with Candace Walters. The students and the teacher seemed to have a good rapport. The students seemed to enjoy the class and felt comfortable. The class started with the teacher explaining what was planned for the day. She then told the class that they would be creating and preforming a dialogue and it would be graded. She referenced a dialogue the class listened to the day before and told them they would be grading a dialogue like it. She also told them they had to take notes on what the problem and the solution was. Then she wrote the structure of how she wanted the dialogue on the board. She told them she wanted the students to speak with emotion and showed them the difference between speaking with and without emotion. She then explained to the students how the dialogue would be graded. She asked if there were any questions and then paired up the students to begin working. While the students were working she was walking around checking on them a correcting their sentence. What I like the most about this class was the fact that the classmates were very supportive of each other. They encouraged each other, helped each other, and applauded each other at the end of the dialogue. The teacher informed me that this exercise was to help the students with integrated listening. She said many of the students wished to take the TFOEL and integrated listening is a big part of the test.