The week’s reading is mainly focused on oral language development in the ESL classroom. It gives an overview of the theories of oral skill, describes how listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills are intertwined in our daily lives, and offers a number of speaking activities that language teachers can implement in the classroom to promote students’ oral skill. These activities or exercises are role plays, discussion, speeches, songs, drama, poetry, and so on. Besides, P&B textbook presents how oral language is developed in each content area such as Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Continuingly, P&B also introduces a couple of tools to assess student’s oral performance: checklists, anecdotal records, and SOLOM. I like the rubric shown on page 144, which includes five measures to assess students’ oral proficiency, because I think it provides a general index of oral language proficiency.
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I find that this is mostly things we know. it organizes them in a body; thus we can recognize how much we already know as well as where we have knowledge gaps.
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