Class started out with Mariya’s presentation. She presented about speaking. She brought up the question of which is more important: accuracy/ fluency and segmental/ supra-segmental. I think that it depends on the levels of the student, environment, and what is the focus of the lesson being taught. Between accuracy and fluency, I think that both of them are important. I would say fluency should be taught first and then incorporate accuracy. I think that many people would say segmental is more important than supra-segmental because you would think that people or students should learn the sounds first then the intonations. However, according to research it is the other way around. Learning the supra-segmental first is more important. Interesting, I thought!
We left for the GLL after Mariya’s presentation. We came up with an activity using the list of speaking items in each group that we picked, and then we rotated to the other group’s item and created an activity, lastly, we commented on their activity as we rotated again. I thought it was interesting just to see how people can up activities for students to speak using different item. Mariya, JoAnn, and I did our activity using flashcards with the article a/an. We had time to do our peer review. I got some good feedback from JoAnn and Mariya when it came to the portfolio. The class ended with a mid-term survey.
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Personally i think again it depends on what and whom we teach that the decision of what to be focused on first, accuracy or fluency, should be made. And in my opinion,it is very important that beginners are taught how to produce the language accurately right from the beginning, since it will take a lot of time and effort for them to correct themselves as the errors have stayed long enough to become habits.
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