Class today started out with Stephanie and Rachael’s presentation. Rachael passed out chocolate hearts for everyone which was very yummy! I guess I had such a bad sweet tooth earlier; the chocolate was just very yummy! Yes, it was. They presented on vocabulary. Unfortunately, we had to stop because the laptop was not working. After a five minute break, we sat down in a circle to talk about our observation. I though the observations from other students were very interesting. Most of the observations that I heard was from Lincoln Community Center; my question that I have is, are students placed with the same level of students? How many levels are at Lincoln Community Center?
Diana came in to talk about her projects on vocabulary too. She talked about what she is doing with her students. It was interesting of how Diana is working with her students to learn vocabulary in her Spanish class. I thought it was a great idea of her divided cards. Coming back to the vocabulary in different time period will help retrieve the vocabulary better.
We went to the GLL to finish up Stephanie and Rachael’s presentation. They did a great job. I love the idea of word association. I think that some students may find it not confusing and again some may find it confusing. Students may find it not confusing because the words are words that associate or (connect) with the vocabulary word. Students may find it confusing because the words that are associated with the vocabulary word are different.
We worked on our last week lesson plan; adding what things students need to know in order to participate in the activity. My group added things into our lesson plan and then looked over Thea’s group’s lesson plan. They did a great job with their lesson plan. My group did not have any questions. Then we worked on corpus of English.
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As a language learner, I have seen a lot of benefits in word association, especially when it comes to brainstorming ideas for a writing task. In my opinion, in order to minimize students' confusion when associating words with each other, it's advisable that the teacher make it clear to students that they need to find words within the same semantic field, not to go for words that are personally/emotionally related.
ReplyDeleteI agree that word association can get very confusing in a foreign language at times, especially for beginning learners. This might be because their language is limited, but even for advanced learners I think many of the associations that are confusing may be culturally related as well. I think it's good advise to keep away from emotional/personal associations when doing this type of activity since this will help to bypass some of the cultural differences and allow the students just to focus on the language itself... I loved the chocolates as well. Candy is always a good for presentations.
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