Reflection of Class on 4/13

Class on Monday started in the G.L.L. with a presentation by Ahmet which was his for his graduate research project. He talked about writing acquisition and other concepts around it. I found it interesting that many of the language learners that he surveyed admitted that they do not use language outside of the classroom! I also found that when a learner does not have good speaking skills that will transfer to both reading and writing skills


It was then time for Jodi to give her presentation about assessment. I thought she did a really nice job explaining assessment and I wish she had time to present everything that she wanted to.

We then got into groups and matched cars up with their definitions. I found that to be quite useful because all of the different terms of validity were at one point a little vague for me. We then had to create ideas about how to assess a certain skill. My group had writing skills and we came up with a few really good activities. We then swapped the activities and had to exemplify the idea behind one of the activities.

Finally, in our whole group discussion we talked about our teacher observations and the struggles that we sometimes had. I was both relieved and disappointed to hear that other students felt that E.S.L. teachers were not put on the same level as the other teachers. Also, some people thought that the E.S.L. teacher was a "fix-it" teacher and I could see all of that in my own experience.