Damil_CO_#2

1/27/2015

CIES COMPUTER LAB

1PM 

Angle Rios Speaking Class Observation

Angle Rios's speaking class meet today at the CIES computer lab. They were practicing their speaking and listening skills using computer programs that model parts of the TOEFL test the students were to take at the end of the school. The class activity was transcribing a short spoken verse recording into English text. Students plucked furiously at their keyboard while trying to finish early. I walked around the class and observed them stopping and playing sound recordings, writing and angrily rewriting entire paragraphs in their effort to understand what they were hearing. 

After students finished writing their transcripts, the students were allowed to leave or remain on their computers to continue working on their mid term exam presentations. After the majority them had finished their writing, I asked Angle what he was going to do with the transcripts the students wrote. He showed me how the computer programs worked and the grading rubric that he used for the class. Once I saw some of the past assignments for his class, I learned how he graded the transcripts and involved students in editing in their own work. Students rewrote their transcripts based on their notes that he wrote in the margins.