Task 5

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES

Actually, I couldn’t observe so much error except for some pronunciation errors because the students who answers the questions are successful and they have done their homework beforehand.

            

        ERROR                                                          POSSIBLE CAUSE

• Potatoes the peel                                      Not being so much experienced in writing
• Potatoes the slices                                   Again a word-order error.
• Vegetable   /'vedʒɪteɪbəl/                          Association with the pronunciation of ‘’table’’    
• Add some peper                                      Not being accustomed to English spelling
• After flour oil and warm milk add             Interference of the mother tongue     

Post-observation questions

1. Teacher corrects all of the student’s errors.
2. Because she doesn’t want students to learn wrongly and the activities she use is not fluency-based.
3. I think she should move according to type of activity. Is it fluency-based or accuracy-based? She should focus on what the activity requires. For example, if the activity is for assessing the use of Simple Present Tense correctly, we should focus on only these errors not spelling or conjunction.
4. Students were writing some vegetable names on the board and one of the students wrote the word “pepper” as “peper”. And teacher didn’t correct that. But I think it should have been corrected because the rest of the students were writing it on their notebooks and they would learn it incorrectly.
5. No, there is not that kind of mistake.
6. Errors show us what the students learned wrongly and we should deal with errors. They are the part of learning. This is what I learned from this observation.

OBSERVING QUESTIONING SKILLS

BOARD      T                                     T (Sometimes)                      DOOR B B (2) B G G (1) B (1) B (5) B B B - - G G (1) B G (2) B B (4) B G (3) G G (4) G B (n): The number of answers learner gave

The answering students mostly were sitting in front of the class and places near the front.

Generally questions are answered by 4 boys and 3 girls.

Eye contact: Yes, she is looking at students mostly.

Timing: Yes, but she continues by giving the right answer herself if the students couldn’t.

Reinforcement: No, the students aren’t praised.

Language: Yes, questions are clear.

Types of questions:There are four types of question but the teacher used mostly one of them during the whole lesson: “Recall Questions”. For example;

• What is the meaning of “Enjoy it?”
• How did we start to write a process of recipe?

And she sometimes use “Convergent Questions”

• Can we grill cauliflower?
• What is “roasting” like?
• How roast is done?

Question-answer set: Teacher question + student answer

• Teacher: What is the meaning of “dice”
• Student:  Küp Küp doğramak.