Caleb Dros CO#3


Class Observation #3 at CIES
Ms. Turk
TOPIC: Grammar
6/25/2019
GROUP 4A; Advanced and ready to go to FSU

Rebecca Turk is high energy. I’ve noticed that ESL professors have their own distinct energy. She’s teaching grammar. When students don’t say something she has no qualm correcting them. This class will help me to learn how to talk to ESL students while allowing them to correct themselves. She ended with a lesson as to ‘what you’ll plan for the next day’ and asks students today to say who did a part of their plan. This was a beginning exercise.

When Ms. Turk uses an idiom, she writes it on the board and explains it.

“We’ll play it by ear---" was the idiom of the day and explanation is simple. ‘we will see as it happens’ and ‘we will see as it develops’.  My first way of explaining it would’ve been to explain its roots in jazz music, but I see now keeping it as simple and functional as possible is all that’s needed.  They were engaging in contextual conversation. Its not a waste of time to talk about normal things is what Ms. Turk said; it’s about training students to correct themselves by allowing them to repeat it and iron out the wrinkles.

Before you moved to the states, what had you never done before.
Please make a short story about two people who have lived in New York City. This is the first writing exercise to talk about. The students now repeat the exercise and we correct the mistakes together as a class. Recommending students to help correct each other by listening. This way it’s layered and allowing students to become self-correctors.

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