说话人 1 00:11
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It's a great honor for me to share our insights into the college English teaching with you. There are 2 parts in today's presentation design and demo class fitting design. We will start with our niece analysis. We are from a comprehensive normal university and shoulder the responsibility of cultivating qualified teachers. Students of our course are the students who receive state financed education and they will have to fulfill their mission to teaching for at least 6 years in the remote and impoverished regions after graduation. Though they are highly motivated English learners and have strong receptive skills, they are weak in productive skills. So taking the students features into consideration, so we selected I English unit 6, I explore 2 for our demonstration.
说话人 1 01:06
The focus of our demo class is writing concession paragraphs. The rationale for our choice is as follows. Concession is a distinct active writing strategy used in this text. Students to use such kind of strategy is a good opportunity to cultivate their higher order thinking. So the topic of this text career choice will help also help to strengthen the students professional belief and enhance a sense of commitment. So based on this text, we set up our teaching objective at the language level. The students have to identify the structure and function of concession paragraphs and remember the typical expressions. With such basic knowledge, the students we asked to employ the writing strategy into their writing task and develop their critical thinking. In addition, this given written task is closely related with the student's future career. So that is also a good way to improve their professional belief and reinforcements of their commitment to their career and to our country.
说话人 1 02:18
In order to realize our teaching objectives, we adopted terrific and poa. In the teaching process, terrific is employed as the guiding principle with the aim to cultivate the student's critical thinking. And the whole teaching procedures are inspired the poa approach. So in the motivating stage, we set the real communicative scenario. Our overseas Confucius institute curious about our state financed education at normal universities and are eager to get our responses. Hello.
说话人 2 02:59
My name is Marcus. I have a few questions regarding the policy. First is it is too early to decide on the career path after high school. And then since the students will have to watch in remote areas, perhaps with a low salary, this job is a business or motivating. Will it have a negative impact on career development and teaching quality? Looking forward to your response. Thank you.
说话人 1 03:26
Well, in this motivating stage and the students will base on this scenario and try their try out their first draft to give the email feedback, and before the class and to have submit online. So in the enabling stage, the student, the teacher will act to ask the skyfolding to get the students to explore, learn and actors the concession paragraphs. And then in the assessing stage, the teachers and students will collaboratively evaluate the first draft and against this assessment checklist to get a better production.
说话人 1 04:03
So in the end, I would like to briefly summarize the highlighted features of our core. First, the teaching process embodies the characteristics of normal universities. Second, so we would like to cultivate the students the critical thinking in the lending process. And 3rd, we seamlessly integrate the language teaching with the moral education, which has just a crowded ways characteristics of normal universities. That is to cultivate the dedicated teachers of the solid knowledge base and the higher standard of morality. And that's the goal we are striving for. Now, next, please allow me to invite my partner for the demonstration.
说话人 3 04:54
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Nice to meet you, young ladies. Okay. Before class, I read your essays. I'm very impressed with some of your views. I'm so glad that you have the passion in teaching job and cherish the feeling of being needed.
说话人 3 05:15
Actually, today we want to talk about how to make an argument. We make the argument clearly, convincingly, and politely. This is what we'll do. We will do today because in USA, mostly you disagree with mccassy's view, right? Now, I ask you to write the samples before class. Okay? It's also on your handout. Now, first, let's look at simple one. Okay? I notice that most of you follow this kind of 3 step structure. In the first part, what did you do mostly? You present whose view? Yes, opposing view, very good. And secondly, you present your own view, yes? And thirdly, your evidence, very good. You provide your evidence. Very clear structure, right? Pay attention to see your view, your evidence, this view. Is there anything sensible in her view? Do you think so? Only, yes. It's like when you argue with someone, it's not possible that he's completely wrong. So what should you do? So when you do that, it's like you were covering your eyes to all the merits in her arguments, right? So what are you supposed to do your writing for? We don't agree with someone. What would you say? You will say.
说话人 4 07:05
I think I will still admit some benefits of her.
说话人 3 07:08
View. Yes. The best way is to at least show respect, right? And to see the world through the. So in this way, what do we need? We need to make a concession. Good concession is an argumentative strategy by which you acknowledge the validity of your opponents view, right?
说话人 3 07:34
Concession paragraphs can show that you can an issue holistically, dialectically, so that you can make your argument persuasively and also risk to fully think about it. Does the author use this strategy? Does what kind of structure the he follow? Maybe you can learn something. You can pay attention to paragraph 2,3, and 4. It's especially the topics in these 3 paragraphs in your text.
说话人 3 08:13
Paragraph 2,3, and 4. Okay. In paragraph 2, what does the author do? Paragraph 2, you can look at the screen, by saying, we are told, we are told to follow our passions. What does the offer do? Is this the rescue or the opposing view? Yes, very good. That is the opposing view. So the first step, you should recognize the opposing view very good. Let's look at paragraph 3.
说话人 3 09:03
The author said this advice makes sense. What is he doing? Yes, make a concession. It's conceding that this opposing view may have some, right? How about last paragraph 4? What does the author do? He says, but put some pressure. And the old to philosophy is, so he is actually, countering, right? Very good. He's actually countering with another argument. You see, recognizing, conceding and countering. It's a very clear structure. So you can follow this structure when you write.
说话人 3 09:49
Okay, up to now we have known the meaning, I, the function, an structure of concession paragraphs. Now let's go one step further and look at another example. In this example, in the sample, the author does use the strategy of concession. Convincing enough. It's also on your handouts. I've already asked you to assess it against this checklist. So please discuss with each other, tell each other to which question you said no question, or questions you said no.
说话人 3 10:44
Destiny you said no. To which one? Means there's a problem in it. What's the problem? Anybody who finds the problem.
说话人 4 10:59
In the first point of for coherence I don't think the author has a acknowledge the opposing point of view.
说话人 3 11:09
And also, how about the details?
说话人 4 11:13
I actually think there are enough.
说话人 3 11:17
Some tails, some. Is it enough? Let's look at it together. You see, the author says there are a series of measures taken, right? And also said the teaching quality has improved a lot. Does he mention what kind of measures does he mention? How much is it improved? Not at all, right? So it is not enough to make it convincing. What should we do? Give more examples, right? Give more supporting evidence.
说话人 3 11:54
How? Let me give you some clues. You can cite like government documents with statistics. You may also cite academic papers and maybe news reports from reliable sources. Think? So you can also use, in this.
说话人 5 12:14
One, I'm teaching English in the middle school in.
说话人 3 12:18
A small town. Now we can get salary subsidies, teacher training programs. I'm not working in big cities. Feel needed by my children here. Okay. This is an interview of alumni working in small towns and villages. Do you think it can serve the vivid illustration of what kind of measures are taken to ensure the living conditions and between quality? Okay. Yes. Okay, very good. Customs, you said. No.
说话人 4 12:52
I have a question. So you say we can use interview to illustrate our point, but is it, I mean, the case can be generalized to the whole population, to the whole student.
说话人 3 13:03
Population? No, that's why we need to make a lot of information, a lot of interviews, not just this one. Okay. This is just a video clip. One video clip. You can interview the whole group. Okay, very good. Have you noticed that? Do you find any transitional words in it, in this sample? Although the word the author are used, concession strategy does not make it explicit.
说话人 3 13:33
No. Okay. Here I have some choices. I have some expressions for you to use to write a very good or very coherent concession paragraphs. Okay? You have already seen some of these expressions in your text.
说话人 3 13:54
Now I think you can do some exercises. Now. Here I have a passage which is a very good, very well structured concession paragraph. See which expression or expressions can be used.
说话人 3 14:27
First one. First one. Which one do you choose? First one.
说话人 4 14:32
It might be possible to consider.
说话人 3 14:35
That. Yes, it might be possible to consider that. Oh, I may say admittedly right. Is it true or you have a point in arguing that, right? And how about next one? You are actually doing what?
说话人 3 14:49
Countering. Very good. So you can use however or nevertheless, right? I would suggest or would argue, okay, very good. This is actually a revised version of one student's essay. I revised it before class. Hopefully with what you've Learned today, you can also revise your first draft. This is your assignment.
说话人 3 15:23
好，有请评委提问。
说话人 6 15:25
OK， thank you very much for the good。 Work, I'm impressed actually by your constant deliberations on helping students become aware of the critical features for the language possibly used in expressing the concession logic, which is really good. Then what do you think you did typically to integrate this work, this part of work into the full or all education practice as we know, which is for organizing this?
说话人 3 16:01
Thank you. Are firstly, I think it's important to develop students critical thinking, which is a very important part for the whole person at education. So that's why we choose concession as one of the teaching focus, so to develop critical and another one, when we choose the teaching materials and especially the writing task we focus on, we want to emphasize the characteristics of normal universe, especially the state finance education at normal universities, because the students receiving this education have to integrate their personal goals to the country's goal. This is also a very important part of the whole person education and to develop their beliefs. And maybe.
说话人 5 16:54
Okay, would you please use examples to explain how you meet the 3 evaluative standards of the enabling stage, that is the graduateness, variety and alignment.
说话人 1 17:06
Well, so for this. Thanks for your question, for this evaluation part, and the students have to, under the teacher's guidance, they have to move on to. They are dropped step by step. So they have to gradually to find out what's wrong with that and what's the problems. And then after that the students have to get the further improvement also throw the guidance the teacher to guide to get the higher part, maybe to maybe develop the higher order things through maybe the improvement of, of the development and then maybe especially with the help of teachers guidance and also the students collaborative, maybe evaluate or assessments together so they may find especial play some higher part and also maybe find though the good ways for them to, to do better for this part and to make some product especially better productive skills to improve for this. That's our maybe actions in this class and also in our teaching sincere.