Friday was a bit harder for all of us, I guess. We continued reflecting on perceptive skill teaching, and the importance of integrating listening/reading exercises into wider activities that will work on several skills, as well as the importance of setting all activities into a meaningful and attractive context for learners. Last Friday, the focus of interest was, once again, dreaming of the day we will finally graduate, and maybe go abroad to work and study.
Now, the task feedback circle seems so obvious that one wonders how come it was hardly ever used before. As a matter of fact, I doubt it is widely used even now. I think that nowadays we get confused, and instead of setting clear tasks to students, we actually do the task for them, and I am not talking particularly on listening/reading activities, but assignments in general. But, I guess that is another story.
As for the newspaper picture our teacher showed us, with four young women sitting at the table with trays of food, I was quite surprised to see us forgetting about our context (a degree in education, where we have been trained on how misleading our prejudices can be, and how harmful they are for teaching), and happily commenting on where they were from and so on.
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