Licenciatura en Docencia de Lengua Inglesa

Third Semester 2013 A

Observation Format

On this format we’re going to mention many things that we had observed on the

school that we had visited on the date of May 9, 2013. The first thing that we had

observed was that the class was using techniques of behaviorism and constructivism

because the teacher didn’t introduce the topic based on their previous knowledge; the

teacher went straight to the topic of the agreements and disagreements in order to start

quickly the class. Also the teacher didn’t motivate the students to produce the language

because their level wasn’t good enough to produce it. Other point that we had observed

was that the teacher never gave feedback on the mistakes that the students were

having; and while giving out the instruction he use the second language, but when the

students did not understand the instructions he was explaining to the students in their

native language. The next point that we observed was that the teacher was not prepared

for the class; the material that he was using was not enough to teach that topic.

Furthermore, students were not learning innately, they were having trouble with the

reasoning; but even though they did not translate any text given. Another important point

was that the students were disorganized and were not paying attention because the way

that the teacher was explaining and the task that was design for the class was totally

boring for the age of the students. On the other hand, we had observed that the teacher

gave many statements to put in practice and clarify doubts presented from the topic

about agreements and disagreements. He also used the students’ personal feelings as

a tool to try to reflect on the statements given. Also, the teacher at first when explaining

the topic step by step, we had observed that the students had a better understanding

while explaining it that way. We also had observed that the students presented many

problems while producing the language, they couldn’t identify the correct form of

speaking the right way of agreements and disagreements, they were presenting a

couple of errors like “they are agree” or “I’m agree”. And finally we had observed that

the students were exchanging points of view in their native language.

Some factors that affect the students while learning the language specially

teenagers are motivation, students most of the time don’t care of learning a second

language because they are focused on their personal activities. What also affects

students is the self confidence because they are scared of producing the language in

front of their classmates; sometimes they are bullying each other. On the other hand, we

think that there are some factors that promotes the learning, some of them are the ability

to memorize because we consider that critical period hypothesis were the children

learns better and faster than adults.