What's the deal?

So, I apologize to all of you....I cannot seem to be successful at 'commenting' but only creating new posts. I don't know what the deal is because I have commented on posts prior to this. So, here I am created a new post in order to respond to other posts. :)

In response to Sharon's 'visiting' teacher' post:


Sharon, this is great! Thanks for sharing about it in class the other night as well. I'm so glad to hear that the pilot is going well! And Kari, I loved your lesson last semester, and it's great to hear that it was a success, not to mention great experience for you! What a great thing for the ELI department and a great connection to make between our department and ELI. I hope it's the beginning of a continuous, successful program.

In response to Lori's 'Activity 3' post:

I think the ideas here are really good. I especially keyed in on your ideas on assessing listening because that is what I'm working on with the guy I'm tutoring through Arlington Reads. I like the idea of watching a scene from a show or movie, then trying to improve the comprehension score. I think shows/movies are relevant to students, and it gives them a different way of hearing natural speech.

Also, Cindy gave me a good listening activity that went over really well with my student. I wrote down some sentences beforehand (for me to look at only). I took one of those sentences and said it really fast, and he tried to see what he understood (if anything) from the sentence. Each time I repeated the sentence, I slowed it down a bit until he comprehended every word. I hope that makes sense. He really like it and was especially excited once he was able to understand it. At first, I was having him write down any words he comprehended, but I realized fairly quickly that his writing proficiency is rather low, so then he just told me what words he was able to understand. If you want to work on listening/comprehending with your student, I recommend trying this one. Thanks, Cindy!