Task 4

LEARNER MOTIVATION

            Actually, I haven’t got opportunity to know the students closely yet because it was just my third observation. Therefore, I tried to decide their motivation types according to their responses to the questions.

STUDENT’S NAME	MOTIVATION	LEARNING BEHAVIOUR	COMMENT
Zehra	Instrumental motivation	Reluctant to the lesson	Low motivation
Ersel	Instrumental motivation	Willingness to answer when uncertain	Medium
Rosa	Blended motivation	Involvement in tasks	High
Nilsu	Instrumental motivation	Giving importance to her homework	High
Berkay	No motivation	Very problematic and unsuccessful	Very low

 

THE LEARNER AS DOER

          I think, learning by doing is a very effective and important method while learning a language or anything because students learn unconsciously while doing something, especially thanks to games. But in my observation I couldn’t see that kind of activities except for some tasks included in some little movements.

WHAT LEARNERS DO	WHAT THIS INVOLVES	TEACHER’S PURPOSE	COMMENT
Categorizing the words according to their types	-Knowing the meanings of the vegetables -Writing them on the board - Consulting other students	Give  some vocabulary knowledge	Cognitive and Physical
Writing a toast recipe	-Individual work -Referring to dictionary - Consulting other students	Teach connectors like (First, then, next, finally…)	Cognitive
Translation of words from English to Turkish	-Referring to dictionary	-Getting students familiar with using dictionary - Give  some vocabulary knowledge	Cognitive and Physical

LEARNER LEVEL

         English level in the classroom is mixed. Some of them are successful, some of them aren’t interested. That’s not bad. Teacher can arrange the students according to this. She can pair a good students with a bad one so she can handle that.

STUDENT	LEVEL	SIGN OF LEVEL	TEACHER’S STRATEGIES
Münir	5	-Finished the activity very correctly and carefully -English is his selective course	Calling on the student for model answer.
Ersel	3	-Not very successful but very enthusiastic	Varying length of wait time
Berkay	0	-Even not aware of  what the lesson is -looks to neighbor for help	Ignoring him.
Mert	1	-Uses L1 -Pronounce the word the way it is written	Ignoring him.
Nilsu	5	-Pronunciation is perfect -Accurate and fluent	Calling on the student for model answer.