IEP 0840 Reading/Listening for Academic Purpose with Eunice, SP18

Reflection  Found myself still focusing more on scoring and how to make point assignment fair to students rather than improve the content of the assessment This is due to the previously experiences with score-(results) oriented culture of developing the test and how objectivity is preserved to avoid controversy over the tests among students and parents. creating portfolio- to give one more chance to improve their answers as part of participation point (extra credit?) Since I have never given a second chance to students to students to solve the same questions again to improve it. They might need to consult to dictionry or other type of resources but... giving a feedback and beneficial washback of the assessment, ??( find some sources about ... beneficial washback. - known to me as an academic concept, not something I have really tried in practice) Not every single words should be productively used by the students. When asking them to produce their own sentences, or creat...

Vocab Quiz  Forgot to create the answer key after I mixed the question types from two different vocab quiz version from the past. Added their vocabulary experiences part to get to know more about their learning history and give fast students something to do... Listening skills and strategies  Hope the activities do not  make them so tired. I am pretty sure there is fatigue .... symptom after the vocab quiz? (it might be different, but ) How am I going to treat Brazilian teachers in my class?  Started collecting their emails to communicate; Have some volunteers to share their vocabulary/reading/listening or general English learning strategies! : ) AFTER CLASS BTs were more cooperative and actively participated. - thanks ! -students' Nervousness about the vocab quiz - could be felt. -Too much to cover for one semester. Try hard not to neglect the listening part of the course.... hmm Situated learning? of Teaching? ..... Sociocultural pe...

Started with lecture, because it made more sense. Note taking skills - lecture I tend to do modelin a lot. don't know when I started it but .... too much? patronizing? Review matching activities; afraid of patronizing them -- they are not high school students; but adults who might know a certain topics much better than I do. Quiz questions will be SIMILAR to what they have done in class. examine quiz questions in the pool and then, realized some discrepancy between what I covered and what was on the quiz. While I was working on the quiz questions, I realized that I am still not too familari with grading system. (.... porportion,?) I had to go back to the syllabus. outcomes as well. just reading them did not helped me. how many points should be given to each task? making decisinos. Is it better NOT to include any of the exercise questions used in class or for homework? I like the idea of making sure whether they really can apply the knowledge about morphemes a...

- Because of the snow day, we met after one week. then, I just wanted to make them to be more active, so I  made sudden changes at the last minute -- just before the class. - thought the group work (corner discussion) would work like an icebreaker, but somehow, things got complicated. they are not familiar with one another yet. - Brazilian teachers are more advanced then other students, which created a different dynamic. There were some quiet students who did not talk that much. - Was still too conscious of my unstable non-native like awkward english expressions sometimes. - Covered most of the things that I planned - but still not sure how much students could have learned.  --- > some classroom assessment techniques are necessary. - Vocabulary quiz will be Jan 30th. Test-taking strategies will be discussed later on the course; then this vocab test will serve as how students are familiar with test formats, and also about myself becoming better at using the ques...

 Agenda:   Group Quiz (10min.)  Vocab Category Fun (10min.)  GAV List #1 (10min.)  Flashcards & Dictionary Skills (30 min.)  Discuss: Listening Video – if time permits  Homework Vocabulary Categories General Academic Vocab Subject/Discipline specific Vocab Phrasal verbs Proverbs / idioms Slang Euphemisms GAV list #1  facet   implement*   mutually*  entail  capable*  infamous  oriented*  inconsistent*  revamp  appealing  perceive*  component*  exceed   legislators*  mainstream  differentiate* Flashcards include:......  WORD (Spelling)  Part of speech   Syllable – Stress pattern (pronunciation)   Other related forms http://www.visuwords.com  Collocations  Definition (in English)  YOUR OWN sample sentence!  Pictures or drawings -...

Introduction to Studying Vocabulary  + Diagnostic Follow-up Pair  Discussion   (10 min.) What do you need to do to succeed in a university course? Why is attaining a high level of vocabulary important? How do you study and learn new vocabulary? What do you think are the best methods or ways to learn more words?  Learning Vocabulary  - So many ways!    Flashcards (paper flashcards, or Quizlet etc.)   Vocabulary lists   Memory methods – mnemonics 
    (something that helps people 
     remember something)  Pictionary or typography – draw pictures   Attaining a high level of vocabulary  Read a lot   What should you read?  Self-selected materials (what interests you)  Understand word categories  Can you name some different word categories?  p.6 GAV, Discipline Specific, Proverbs, Slangs, Euphemisms, Phrasal verbs ….. ...