LC for Session 6

Member: David, Trang, Peach, Zoe, Cindy, Anna

As to the first statement, in our group, we all think that it is delivered partially. The process of this activity does not follow PPP strictly, just share something, and it brings something new for the classroom. It really offers an alternative to the “presentation, production, practice” model, but not genuinely learned-centered. Throughout all the activity, we can see the subject is controlled by the teacher, and students should follow the model given by the teacher, and they cannot decide the topic, task and something they’d like to learn. So we all think this statement is partially delivered.
For the second statement, we all agree with that it is delivered in the task. As first, let students to think about which subjects they dislike or like, then listen to a dialogue for a while, after the input, the group discussion comes in. It encourages students to discover language themselves, so it is really based on sound principles of language learning. In the part of “language focus”, the focus on language form is delivered exactly.
Regarding with the third statement, in our group, we all hold that it is not delivered. Throughout the task, in terms of accuracy and fluency, the teacher does not supervise these points at all. In the part of listening, students even can copy each others’, so it is not natural at this point either. Totally, it is teacher- centered.
As for the fourth statement, we think it is delivered. In a broad sense, taking the whole process into consideration, we come to this agreement.
Taking the fifth statement into consideration, we think it is not delivered. Because the theory or research of second language acquisition doesn’t support this point, and if it doesn’t work., we can improve that.
For the sixth statement, in our group, we deem that it is not delivered. Since there is no other model can be compared, only from this one, we cannot draw such a statement. However, as to the “real language use”, it is indeed displayed in the listening part, but less plenty. Therefore, in this task, it doesn’t deliver the plenty of opportunities for real language use, but we all completely agree with this statement.
Regarding with the last one, we all think it is not delivered. Because in the small group activity displayed; students can complete the task without any accuracy, they just need to express themselves to others clearly, so only with fluency can they complete the task.