Vinnie CO #5

     Today I visited Dr. Ciapattas speaking class for beginner level students. It was a smaller class and there were only two students. The main focus for this class was pronunciation so she started with talking about how it was very important for both students to really focus on it. The exercise today was a reading exercise where we read aloud as a group through the article. First the teacher read it at a pace that was appropriate for the skill level and then the students took turns reading one passage at a time. When the students messed up on a word she would help them through it and do so in different ways. First she would try to use the repeat after me method and if that different work she would focus on the specific sound they might have been struggling with. Something I noticed this class was this was a really hard thing for some of the students because they felt demoralized when they couldn't figure it out. But Dr. Ciapatta reminded them that the only way to learn was to be uncomfortable and that this was going to help and they could do it. 

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