Francis- Observation 3

I chose to observe a beginning Reading class taught by Ah Young Kim. The class activity was reading a passage from the textbook and answering the review questions afterwards. At the beginning of the class however Ah Young reiterated that the focus was about Reading Skills, not vocabulary. She explained that reading skills would help the students build their vocabulary in an efficient and long lasting way. Ah Young also referred to the TOFL test and some types of reading questions the students might come across. For example, she said that they could get questions asking to identify who the pronoun in an excerpt from a passage referring to.

The activity first begun by Ah Young going over the differences between Scanning and Skimming. She gave the class time to do the later for the passage they were about to go over. She said these were important for predicting skills. The passage was read out loud by individual students. Ah young allowed students to ask about vocabulary that they did not know. But she taught these by talking them through the use of context clues. The class ended with assignment of review questions. Ah Young instructed the students to use scanning if they did not remember the answer form the passage.

Ah Young was an interesting teacher to observe because English is not her first language and she does have an accent but she commands the class yet also is very friendly which allows the students to relax...at some points a bit too much but the class was very laid back.