February 16 2009

We started class with answering what kind of listening activities our group has experienced or taught in the past. After sharing our experience with our small group, we shared it with the whole class. Kizuna said his worst experiences were dictation. Bekir and Chris loved dictations. This is especially a great example of different learning style. Thea’s listening experience was with teaching students the game “Whatcha doing?” I thought the game was a great idea because when students are playing this game, they really have to listening to what the other person is asking or doing. I think that students would really like and enjoy the game. This game is fun and interactive. Thea and Stephanie presented their presentation. As an activity, they had everyone did a listening activity. Bekir and Aaron were in my group. One of the group members was the reader and the other two would draw what they were hearing. Bekir was reading while Aaron and I were drawing. I had some difficulties because I wasn’t able to catch up with the story. In the text, some of the listening difficulties were the rate of deliverance, reduced forms, clustering, redundancy, performance variables, interaction, stress, rhythm, intonations, and colloquial language. I guess I was having trouble with the rate of deliverance