Observation In English Class

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In this second month I still had to spread the flyers every Wednesday and Friday, after that I would back to the class either to teach or to assist. In the first week of September, I was informed that I would get some new classes to be handled. As usual, before I handle a class as a teacher I had to do some observation in their class as a teacher’ assistant. The first group was composed of four students of eight years old. The other one, was composed of five students of six years old. Observation group 1: When I started with my observations, I noticed that this group would not be very difficult to handle. Although there were one to two students that did not work, the rest of them did not present problems related to that. There were no big problems …show more content…

The host teacher entered the classroom greeting in English, but the instructions and explanations were given in the way of mixing the English and bahasa. The students only used the language when reading a text or a dialogue. If there was an unknown word, the teacher immediately wrote its meaning on the board (in bahasa). It reminded me of the Grammar-translation method, but I was conscious that my classes would be mostly based on the Communicative approach. Sincerely, I was a bit worried about this situation because when it was my turn, I had to speak in English as much as possible, so I was afraid my students did not understand or did not me for that. Another thing that called my attention was that the teacher worked with the book only. She did not use other materials such as posters, pictures, cards, videos, songs, games, etc. Therefore, I thought it would be good to exploit as much as I could that kind of resources which students were not used to. As I said before, the group did not present problems of indiscipline. Sometimes they were noisy, but it was not necessary to call their attention many times. They were very respectful and their relationship with the teacher was really nice! The teacher was able to keep the class under control all the time, and that was admirable for me. Regarding the teacher’s explanations, they were very clear. Generally, the students caught the information quickly. Maybe, the level of English that most of them already had was of great help too. Another positive aspect to remark was that the host teacher was very well organized to work and to give instructions. It was good because students did not get confused about what they had to do. Group 2: The first class I observed this group, I felt scared and surprised at the same time. I was afraid because I noticed this would be a group difficult to handle. They were numerous, talkative, noisy and some of

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