Interviewing students about activities, materials, techniques and procedures (p. 416) can be an effective way to collect data for an action research inquiry. Students can be an invaluable resource for us as we work to improve our teaching and our students' learning experience.
In this contribution, brainstorm a set of questions that you might ask a student.
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1. Activities
ReplyDelete1) Which was the most interesting activity?
2) Which was the least interesting activity?
3) Do you have any idea of new attracting activity that can be helpful or any comments?
2. Materials
1) Which was the most useful material?
2) Which was the least useful material?
3) Do you have any idea of new material that can be helpful or any comments?
3. Techniques
1) Which was the most practical technique?
2) Which was the least practical technique?
3) Do you have any idea of new technique that can be helpful or any comments?
4. Procedures
1) Which was the most memorable procedure?
2) Which was the least memorable procedure?
3) Do you have any idea of new procedure that can be helpful or any comments?
Asking students a set of questions to brainstorm that is a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution to a problem. if questions are drawn by the teachers interviewing introduction or suggestion of the lesson, these will help teaching success in lesson of the class. Following are questions;
ReplyDelete1. Activities *****
1) These actitvities will you find 'key point' from these activities?
2) Have you tried these activities ?
3) Collect any words that comes out of you suddenly and name it
2. Materials *********
1) Have you experienced like the episodes in the textbook?
2) What do you guess from these characters? (show the students some characters )
3) Look at the map and find where you have been ?
4) We are going to watch a video about the contend from the textbook.
3. Techniques*********
1) Take notes of contend or vocabularies which you are missing or incomprehensible and questions
2) Share your related episodes with the team members.
3) Discuss those subjects with your memembers and get a solution
4. Procedures*********
1) make a sure that process is another way to take the assessment.
2) What feedback do you get from your peers about this lesson?
3) Write down about your idea after these all activities.
Before the last week wednesday, I had have an Enlish Lesson study to show many of teacners in our school An I try to survey for some imformation for Enlish Lesson to the student. It attempted before the lesson study and I choose random class. My questions are;
ReplyDelete1. Do you like my Enlish lesson?(N=24)
a-yes(18=75%), b-so so(3=13%) c-not bad(1=4%) d-no answer(2=8%)
This question means that I want to know the students are satisfy my English lesson or not.
2. What kind of activities do you like most?(N=24)
a-game(5=21%) b-role play(12=50%) c-speaking(2=8%) d-listening(1=4%) e-song & chant(4=17%)
When I was teaching English, I had showman-ship for them with native teacher usually. Because of that reason students like role-play.
3. Why don't you like speaking or listening?
a-Can't understand(8=34%) b-Haven't self-confidence(7=29%) c-Because of wrong pronounciation(4=17%) d-Engnlish is difficult(6=26%)
According to that research, If the students didn't like game, song and chant that activites level is not good to them and I didn't attemp any others it's my teaching problems. I inteospect myself and after that I will change my teaching methods for song & chant. I'll collect more interesting and easy., simple song using many animations. Because of third quesiona, I'm very surprised. The students speaking sounds were too big usually, I regardes their speaking abilities were good. But it just my own thought. Individually, I asked to correct pronounciation one-by-one. They afraid to speak English except 5-10 students. The afraid of wrong pronounciation means that Korean students laught their peers mistakes and joke them. At that time teachers asked their laughter stop. Because of that questions I have to change my English lesson method. So that opportunity becomes enlightened myself.
* Activities
ReplyDelete1. Do you enjoy the activity or feel bored?
If you feel bored, why do you think so?
2. What do you get from the activity?
3. Do you think it is helpful? If not , why?
* Materials
1. Are you satisfied the material?
2. Do you understand the material? If you don't understand, which part is the most difficult?
3. Do you think it is helpful? If not , why?
* Techniques
1. Are you satisfied your teacher's lead-in style?
2. do you feel motivated to study more from the lesson? Why do you think so?
* Procedures
1. Do you have any problem to follow the lesson sequence?
2. Which part is the most easy and difficult?
Ju Won said(WB)
ReplyDelete1. Activities
- How do you feel about this activity?
- Could you get the object through this activities?
- Was this activity useful to you? If or not, what is not helpful to you?
2. Materials
- Were materials authentic?
- Were materials appropriate for this class?
- Could you pay attention to this class because of these materials?
3. Techniques
-Did teacher use the useful techniques?
-Which one is the most useful to you?
- How were the correction techniques effective?
4. Procedures
- Was these procedures specific and structural?
- Which part of these procedures is the most useful to you?
1. Activities
ReplyDelete-Is this activity interesting or boring?
-If you are a teacher and you can make new activity, how do you change the activity?
-Can you do this activity with your friends or groups effective?
-What is your favorite activities? (e.g, words game, chant, singing, etc)
2. Materials
-What is the most useful materials in our class?
More detailed
-CD and Audio : Can you listen and understand clearly?
Can you follow the speed of sound?
Do you think that using CD is helpful to you?
-Internet site: Is this site useful to study our lesson?
If you know good learning sites, recommend one.
-Paper sheet : Is this sheet connected with today's lesson?
Do you like this activity?
3. Techniques
-Can you follow teacher's class?
-What is the most encourage part in teacher's role?
-If you are a teacher, what do you want to teach your students?
-Do your teacher make you feel comfortable and Can you concentrate the class?
4. Procedures
-Do you think the procedures are helpful for you to learn English?
-Do you feel satisfied with whole part of these procedures or not ? and why?
1. The thing that I enjoyed most in the first semester of the course was that I could share various experiences from my classmates. But I found I'm not good at communicating in English specially in speaking. So sometimes when you encouraged and made us to produce something in English in front of the whole classmates I felt really nervous and uncomfortable. For the next I think I need more preparation for the classes.
ReplyDelete2. The things that I learned in the course that I did not know before were many activities in many aspects of learning English. I want to use some of these to teach language items. And now I know what the APA is a little. It was my first time to write something in APA style so it's not unfamiliar for me but it was interesting.
3. I really want to have and remember useful contents such as activities and examples in my long term memory system.
4. The thing I found most difficult in the coursework is to communicate opinions with classmates in English as I mentioned before and to read the chapter before the class. For me it took quite long time to finish reading the book.
5. The question I would like to ask about what we have done is quite nothing right now maybe because of my lack of understanding about the coursebook. I think I will have something to ask you later.
1. Describe a typical day in English class.
ReplyDelete2. Would you say you have a good teacher? Why?
3. Are you challenged in your class?
4. How much time do you spend on speaking/conversation in class? On reading? On writing? On listening?
5. Do you use a textbook and/or workbook in class? A computer? What else do you typically use?
6. What kind of activities do you enjoy most?
7. Do you do a lot of group work? Role-play?
8. Is there anything about your class that you don't enjoy?
9. Do you believe you are improving your English through your class?
10. What might you change about your class if you were the teacher?