Today is the thirty-fifth day of the spring semester 2024. I have three classes; the two for the second-year students and the one for the first -year students. I made my students do a pair-work in the latter that is conversation course. Actually, this activity is a kind of preparation for the final examination. I told this to the students so that they would do the activity seriously. Now it is the one-third point of the semester. I am planning the same activity at the two-third point.
The procedure of the activity is as follows;
1. Teacher’s explanation
2. Collecting students’ mobile phones
3. Showing a rough script that has many blanks
4. Drafting a script by students
5. Returning mobile phones
6. Recording conversation by the pairs
7. Sending the audio data to the teacher
The reason to do “2.” is to stop students’ use of translation software on mobile phone.
The activity was done at the end of the class. Time was only 30 minutes. I have got some knowledge for the testing procedure through this pair activities of conversation. Today, I don’t have time to write about the result, and I haven’t evaluated 14 audio data yet. I will listen to the audio data and use them as individualized instruction for each pair and each student.
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