Riley CO #4

For my 4th observation, I observed Dr. Felicia Ciappetta's Group 2 Listening class. The first thing I noticed was that Dr. Ciappetta uses a lot of hand motions and gestures as she speaks; she also speaks clearly and at a slower pace. She began class by having the students review the vocabulary from last class and then asking them to match the words to their definitions. If a student asked a question about a word, she posed it back to the class first before offering the answer. She always wrote the definition and part of speech of the word on the board as well so students could visualize it. 

The main activity was a listening activity in which Dr. Ciappetta had her students listen to an audio that was about 3 minutes long. The first time through, she asked them to just listen to it. Afterwards, she had students get with a partner and discuss what they could remember from the audio. She then asked people to share what they spoke about with their partners and asked them follow-up questions such as, "What is your evidence for that?" Then, we listened to the audio again, this time taking Cornell notes. The process repeated of discussing with a partner and then with the class. 

Something that stuck out to me this class was how when a student asked, "When can I say I am bilingual?" Dr. Ciappetta paused the class to answer his question. She spent about 10 minutes speaking to the class about it and encouraging them. 

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