Instructor: Vicky Golen
Date/Time: Wednesday 22
July 2015, 11:00-11:50pm
I arrived at the class a few minutes early and introduced
myself to Vicky, the instructor. She told me they were covering summary and
paraphrasing that day and gave me a work sheet to follow along with. It is funny
how much we take reading skills for granted in our native tongue. The idea
of teaching someone summary seems ridiculous because you would thing that it is a concept in most
languages. Why do we need to teach it just because the language is
different? But then I remembered that I had to do summary exercises in nearly
all of my high school Spanish classes. Language breaks down when you have to
teach it. The more I hear people teach English the more the it dissolves.
Languages are just equations for meaning. I got to work more closely with the
students during this class because I was pared with the student next to me for
a few of the reading exercises. I was interesting to watch him piece through
the material.
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