Week 4- by Lucy

Week 4

A - Language improvement: vocabulary learnt, some part of grammar better understood, which type(s) of language difficulties are you facing, how a team-mate has helped in making you understand something?

The girls had trouble pronouncing a few of the words that were used in the basic outline of our story.  An example of this is the word ‘armbands’.  Originally, the girls pronounced it with the intonation rising on the second syllable, which is typically American.  I corrected their pronunciation, telling them that the stress is on the first syllable, causing the intonation to go down on the second, so to make the pronunciation sound more British. 

 B - Pedagogy: Which type of decision-taking is important? Why do you take the decisions you do while making stories? Which aspect of teaching did you learn today?

We learnt to write the skeleton of the story, meaning the outline of the story.  This should be kept apparent throughout the story. 

C - Use of technology: how do you think the technology you are learning to use is helping you to make stories? Which types of technological difficulties are you facing? Are your friends helping? In what way?

We did not use a lot of technology throughout the course of this lesson, because we were just brainstorming ideas of what to include in the outline of the study.  Our main form of technology used during this lesson was ‘Audacity’. 

D - Collaboration: how are you dividing your tasks each week? Who does what? Who helps whom? Are you facing difficulties collaborating with each other? How are you sorting them out? How much work are you managing to do in class and how much do you do at home?

  

We did not divide our tasks throughout this lesson, because we were just brainstorming and therefore doing a lot of talking.  This was a good way of working together, however, because it allowed me to correct the girls’ pronunciation when needed and help them with any vocabulary questions that they had.