Ms.

Carol’s Session Observation

It’s absolutely obvious that Ms. Carol used the communicative approach by
focusing on the goal of using a language “communication”. The teacher used
multiple ways to use specific phrases (agreement and disagreement) and put their
teaching into particular communicative situations, in order to help students learn to
communicate better.
The teacher used carefully planned games and activities at the level. When things
are given to students at the correct level, it truly engages them and help them want
to learn. In the next paragraph I will mention the techniques she used to achieve
these goals.
At the beginning, the teacher used an information gap activity to make sure
students understand and memorize the words of this level. Not only the meaning of
these words but also the spelling. She assessed their memory learning by asking
them to recall the definitions they’ve learned during the activity she designed.
Then she moved smoothly to another activity using the language games technique
by offering them a variety of sentences that has different structures of agreement
and disagreement. She exposed them to a dialogue to extract more agreement and
disagreement expressions, stressing on how to disagree politely.
At the end, she used the role play technique to allow the students communicate
with each other in the given context. She encouraged all the students to write the
dialogue to make sure they all participated. She also motivated them to not only
show their agreement or disagreement but also give a comment to help them go on
a conversation to make it more realistic.
It was definitely professional when the teacher gave the students the chance to
move around the campus then come back again pretending it is a new day to
continue their activity, the matter that helps change their mood and avoid boredom.