Session Activity- Go over lizard story, gather words for conditionals
Item Produced- lizard story narrative with English meanings, passive tense tools
Summary- the lizard story did not turn out like expected, the word gathering was useful
Linguistic Effective- the vocab exercises went well
Linguistic Ineffective- The story was difficult for my speaker, and difficult for me to decipher
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- something culturally went wrong with the story. Because of this, it is difficult to create linguistic information with the story materials.
Cultural Effective- The story narrative was a thrilling look into the mind of my speaker. The speaker did not interpreterate the lizards on the page as anything I imagined. He perceived all of the lizards as their own entity, and not as occurrences of the same characters. Also, he perceived both pages to be connected into one large mural, and did not consider each page as a time lapse of the previous image.
Cultural Ineffective-although fascinating, I do not think the story activity was useful to the speaker
Cultural Provisional Improvements- make sure in future issues the images are aligned succinctly
Tomorrow- I want to try and bring two guests and play cards with my speaker
Further Comments- during challenge one I moved position from sitting across the room from my speaker to sitting on the same couch. I will note the changes next session.
