Session Activity- get words for love, light conversation to catch up with speaker's life
Item Produced- scale of love to hate vocabulary, carpentry vocabulary and knowledge
Summary- lively talk about love, carpentry, and work
Linguistic Effective- Asking questions about hate made it easier for my reserved speaker to talk about the sensitive topic of love.
Linguistic Ineffective- After the long break, it was very difficult to understand my speaker's words. Breaks in our once a week cycle make me very rusty
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- add in the importance of covering hate
Cultural Effective- hearing his answers were valuable on two different levels. First, I was able to grasp his scale of affection from love to hate. Second, the manner in which he answered (reserved, and only divulging information after pregnant pauses) gave me a lot of insight into the mental workings of my speaker, and his preferred communication style
Cultural Ineffective- Nothing of note
Cultural Provisional Improvements- changing seating position has impacted the content and style of our lessons. Activities have become more relaxed and the speaker is answering more candidly
Tomorrow- I want to try to bring up a conversation directly related to one of the vocabulary banks
Further Comments- It seems like I have a guilt for not having all of the orthography and data basing completed. It bothers me because I feel like it is difficult to move on without these steps. I am also feeling like my speaker is frustrated as we learn a lot of words one time, but they are never implemented in later lessons
