Presentation Notes

As requested, here are my presentation notes; sorry it took so long!

Group 1

-Good way to start out the presentation-with a question.
-I liked how you asked discussion questions.
-Great job making eye contact and not just reading the whole time!
-Thank you for defining the terms for us!
-Leave more wait time after you ask a question-give students time to answer.
-Great effort, even though you weren't feeling well!

Group 2

-Good way to start out the presentation-with a question.
-Good job of making your presentation interactive!
-Good job of eliciting examples.
-Try asking more leading questions-to elecit information the students already know.
-Try not to read too much, because it feels like you get lost in your textbook.
-What makes a language superior? Is it because of complexity? Who decides?
-Good job with giving lots of relavent examples!
-I like the fact that you did a group discussion activity. Good facilitation of that!

Group 3 (sorry we had to start rushing!!!)

-Good point about taking the time to explain culture!
-Good points-vocabulary says a lot about your culture, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
-Make sure that you interact more with your audience, so that you're not just reading the entire time.

Group 4

-Make sure you make eye contact with everyone, not just me.
-Good questions.
-Stop going over the examples in the book; it's taking too much time! One is enough! :)
-Good job with trying to get audience participation going!
-Go into more depth about sociolinguistics...