Second Language Class Observation

Class Observations Report

Introduction

This paper aims at summarizing and reporting what was observed during two classes of English as Foreign Language. I observed two classes of a mid-beginner level course at UFC. These classes took place on March 19 and March 21. The teacher has a Master degree in Linguistics and is currently a PhD student in the same field. She has been teaching at UFC for more than 20 years and has experience in teaching different courses at the under graduation program.

This report is composed of the descriptions of teacher’s and students’ interactions and behavior, while they are part of a communicative class of English. Sometimes, I am going to base some observations on some concepts and ideas studied during the

Sometimes, I am going to base some observations on some concepts and ideas studied during the course Methods.

This class started at 10 a.m. When I entered the room the teacher was revising the 1st content of the book and that is History of Computer System. According to his, this part of the class was to link the previous class to the present one, because there were many doubts about Generations, Classification and Types of Computer. During this part of the class, students were paying attention to what the teacher was explaining.

There is a gap in the period of observations due to the fact there had been students’ presentations and a holiday on the dates between the first observed class and this one.

This class covered the Information of Technology topic of the book. The teacher started the first part of the class making a summarized presentation of the five types of generations in the Computer history. This took around twenty minutes of generation’s presentation. Students during this part of the class did not participate, but listened to the teacher’s