Tyler Lee TS#8 Adult

April 21

For our last session, I decided to use my multi-level listening lesson plan to give In-hwa very focused listening practice and experience with extracting the main points from a spoken text to answer questions. We starting with schema building by listening to Bob Marley's song One More Cup of Coffee, and then we had a conversation about the role of coffee, tobacco, tea, and alcohol as social and culturally accepted substances in the US. Once I felt that we had warmed up the topic significantly, I had In-hwa watch the video of Michael Pollan speaking about plant drugs. We then had a comprehension check so that I could decide which level activity that I should assign In-hwa, and I started by assigning her the intermediate exercise--taking notes on the main ideas of what Pollan was saying the first two times through the video, and then answering short response questions the next two times. I realized that after the second listen, In-hwa's notes were still kind of sparse, so I decided that it would be beneficial to go through some of the true and false questions with her as a comprehension check. She got most of them correct, though at this point I realized that the appropriate activity for her to do at this point would be a close test. In the next two listenings she was able to complete the close test correctly and when we went through the short response questions together, I was able to use guiding questions to help her answer them on her own.

This was a great lesson for In-hwa and even though it really challenged her, it helped her realize what kind of focus is really required to improve her listening skills.  It was great working with In-hwa these pasts couple months and it was really rewarding to see that I was able to help her improve her English competency and learn valuable information about how to continue to improve by herself.