TCSOL Practicum II !

Spring 2014 Instructors name: Class taught in: Date of teaching: Duration of teaching: Jia Xu

Teaching report!
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Grade One

March 10, 2014 30 minutes

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What transpired in class!

Part One: ! To learn a short conversation about hobby from textbook. ! 1. Let students read the conversation in pairs.! 2. Selected students to read the conversation in class.! 3. Asked students questions about the meaning of the conversation.! Part Two: ! 1. Showed nine pictures of different hobbies to students. Asked students to review them one by one.! ! 2. Asked students to classify the nine hobbies into two different categories. Pair work)! & ! 3. For the , let students discuss in pairs for the given questions and then present their opinions.! ! ! 4. For the , let students discuss in pairs for the given questions and then present their opinions.! ! !

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Reections !

Hobby is a very good topic for task-based language teaching. On the basis of the textbook, a lot of hobby related words and phrases are

given to students, but the contents in the form of articles and conversations are not very authentic in the real world. I designed a

sequence of tasks for Part Two. First, I listed different hobbies to prime students for later activities. The collocation of verb-noun was the focus, such as , etc. Second, I explained what are sports hobby and art hobby, and asked students to classify these hobbies. Finally, I asked students to rank the hobbies to the easiest, most difcult, etc. ! During the discussion, I could hear English was used a lot by students. For the lower level students, using of English is not avoidable. But I should encourage them to use Chinese as much as possible.! In addition, I tried to adopt different corrective feedbacks in the class. For example, when students were hesitated to express their opinions, I gave them enough time and elicit them to speak out. ! In general, students were active and involved in the class. But there were a lot of aspects that I need to improve in order to apply taskbased teaching better and better for my future teaching career.!