English Out There Online Case Study - Jane, Strasbourg - Episode 6a

Jane's sixth lesson, she chose this and jumped to a level 4 lesson (Intermediate) whjich is one of those available under the free membership.Level 4TopicAimLanguageFocusSkillsLesson14What had happened?To tell stories, using past tensesPast perfect versus past simpleSpeaking, reading and writing stories You can download the lesson plan here for free if you sign up to our free membership:http://www.languagesoutthere.com/articles/pastperfectversuspastsimpleShe handled it pretty well. At one point I realised she was using an electronic dictionary and had to ask her to stop but it was useful to address that as I then explained about how the brain can shut down and stop words coming when the level of anxiety the speaker feels gets too much (lathophobic aphasia as Stevick would call it). I sent here this link from the LOT website which explains it in mroe detail with research references. This really is what EOT does amazingly well. It helps learners to overcome their fear of speaking by building confidence naturally. Here's the text chat history from the session with the link to the page on our site at the bottom: [10:10:45] Jason West: Hey, ready when you are...sooner the better this morning! :) [10:42:18] *** Call from Janeliu, duration 15:08. *** [10:48:10] Jason West: 14,000,000,000 to 1 [10:50:29] Janeliu: 500,000 [10:50:47] Janeliu: 1=0.8 [10:51:05] Janeliu: 1=8 [10:51:23] Janeliu: 40.0000 [10:51:35] Jason West: 62500 euro [10:51:37] Janeliu: 65.000 [10:56:16] Jason West: divided [10:57:26] *** Call ended *** [10:59:22] Jason West: One second, I had to re-boot... [10:59:29] Janeliu: ok [10:59:39] *** Call to Janeliu, duration 13:43. *** [11:03:38] Jason West: huge black cloud [11:05:47] Jason West: scream [11:05:51] Jason West: to scream [11:07:51] Jason West: anxiety [11:10:19] Jason West: http://www.languagesoutthere.com/articles/WhyisitsohardtospeakEnglishsometimes [11:13:23] *** Call ended *** [11:14:01] Janeliu: (wave) (dance) see u next monday [11:14:03] Janeliu: bis [11:14:14] Jason West: :)