In today’s class we started with Sinclair and Coulthard Model of Discourse Analysis. According to this model, in a class the lesson is divided into transactions which is further divided into exchanges which is further divided into moves which is further divided into acts. According to this model there are 22 acts which are marker,…
A big shock came at the beginning of the class as Dhanapati sir gave us each one presentation and one field work. Well the presentation is fine as I can do some research on the topic of ‘Symbolic Interactionism’ and prepare a good enough presentation. But the real challenge is to prepare at least half…
Today also we continued from where we had left last time. We made sense out of different phrases and images shown to us. We also learnt about locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. Locutionary acts mean saying something about something using words while Illocutionary mean doing something by saying something and Perlocutionary mean the effect of…
In today’s class, we had a lot of fun making sense of discourse as given in the diagrams given by Dhanapati Sir. Some of the images that we had to make sense out of are as below:
Today I was almost shocked to not see Gnawali sir in the class as he is mostly regular in his classes except when he has other works and it seemed that today was one of those days. Our class was taken by Usha Kiran Wagle who started by taking our multiple intelligence test. I found…
When I got the handout for the day, I knew that it was going to be something related to task. And as I assumed, similar events happened in the class. First we were made to do a role play that was titled noisy neighbor. We were divided into pairs and one of the person will…
In today’s class before going on to Communicative Language Teaching, Gnawali sir briefly explained about the silent way and total physical response. Both of these methods are rarely used by themselves in a classroom but they may be used as a subsidiary method. Gnawali sir couldn’t give much example on silent way as he didn’t…
Unfortunately I had to be absent today due to personal matters. But I guess I could write a reflection based on the presentation paper I got and my friends. In today’s class Gnawali sir taught about Suggestopaedia and Natural Approach. To talk about Suggestopaedia, it is an affective humanistic approach to dealing with language. It…
Today Gnawali sir started with a drill exercise. And it was obvious that he was going to teach about grammar translation method and direct method. He already had us read the related chapters beforehand. At first he gave us some brief history on language teaching methods. According to which Latin was taught in grammar schools…
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