Selene CO-3

For my third class observation, I sat in on Angel's Listening class (4A). I was very impressed with the high skill level of listening comprehension that Angel's activity required. To begin with, Angel quizzed everyone orally and individually on vocabulary they had previously learned. These were sophisticated words like "favor", "competitive", and "property." After that, students listened to a set of about 10 questions on the topics of economics, free enterprise, and intellectual property. They were asked to jot down key words in the questions and then find out the answers in their textbook as a group. Once that was done, they were to go to the computer lab and submit the answers to Blackboard. Angel said he grades the answers based on content, not grammar. Similarly, on several occasions he passed up the opportunity to correct speech errors. As I understand it, this is because at this level/class the focus is on listening and comprehending the larger concepts rather than having perfect grammar. He also explained that, as a teacher, you have a lot of things going in your head at once during a lesson, and it is not always practical to correct every error.