Week 8 Assignment: Case Study RICA Prep Assignment

Week 8 Assignment – Case Study Rica Prep Assignment
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August 25, 2019
Developing a teaching plan that is tailored to the student’s needs is crucial for learning. Thus, an analysis of the student’s skills should always be done first in order to set the baseline for his improvement. In line with Week four’s and seven’s activity, it could be said that the student possesses a lot of strengths that gives a lot of potential for development. For example, Week four’s activity have shown that the student is already knowledgeable of the different high-frequency words, with regards to both its meaning and pronunciation. This strength is further complemented with the student’s quick pick up. However, the student still commits plenty of pronunciation and usage mistakes, especially when it comes to words that are harder to pronounce. He is also highly vulnerable to the unconscious use of monotonous expressions and voice.
In order to solve these problems, the teacher could utilize both (1) instructional media and (2) in-group discussions between students. On the one hand, the use of instructional media could significantly increase the meaning and pronunciation of a word more clearly by ‘placing’ the words within a context CITATION Gut14 \l 1033 (Gutierrez, 2014). In order to do this, the teacher could let the student watch videos specifically created about the matter and pose guide questions or quizzes at the end in order to ensure their attention and critical analysis of the film. In fact, the students could also be assigned a particular video to watch at home in order to a add supplementary knowledge about the matter. On the other hand, the in-group discussions would be done in two groups where the teacher would act as a ...