Today I observed Prof. Flemming's Group 3A Speaking class. The topic of the class was pronunciation and pronunciation listening. At the beginning of the class, Prof. Flemming went over problem areas from the previous day's homework, including pronouncing man/men, ran/run, John/Joan, scene/sin. Syllables were discussed including how many syllables Wednesday has (2). Next, students learned about contractions and running words together in a sentence as in 'Where'd he go?" Students then did a pronunciation recording in pairs of two with one student asking questions such as 'How do you spell 'tree'?' in order for the other student to hear the correct pronunciation and spelling 'T R E E' rather than 'T H R E E'. These recordings were sent to the prof via Airdrop. Lastly, students played the card game Table Topics, with the topic being 'Happiness'. In teams, students answered questions like 'What are you most proud of"? The prof listened to the conversations and provided each student a post-it with areas they could improve their pronunciations.
I gained so many tools for teaching pronunciation from this class that I look forward to using in my future teaching endeavors!
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