Class Reflection

Marya started her presentation by posing two questions of choice: accuracy and fluency; segmentals and suprasegmentals.

It is not easy for language teachers to separate these concepts when it comes actual classroom work. One flows back and forth between them as the needs of the students and the type of activity done in class are many and varied.

It was useful to discuss and bring to mind the imortance of each.

We spent time in the computer lab doing an exercise to help us realize the riches that the Internet provides at the touch of a button. We did not really touch upon the difficulties of the computer. The down side of the Internet is that one is never entirely sure that the technology in the classroom and the technology of the Internet, along with the coming and going of sites and resources. One hopes that they will always work in the way that one intends for them to, when one plans. - but often that does not happen.

I still find it an awkward resourse at best. As I have had hours of my class time wasted by presenters at MNSU Mankato who also were not able to utilize technology as they had planned, I wonder how really useful these resources are.

Or maybe teachers just need to becoame more familar with the technology.

We spent the remainder of our time going over our portfolios. It was good to do this this early in the semester. It gives us plenty of time to get ready for the end when they need to be turned in.