This is what I noticed about my students' performances during the third implementation session:
Johanna has improved a bit in the use of affirmative statements especially in conjugating the Subject + Verb agreement but she had more problems producing the regular and irregular verbs because she took more risks in implementing new ones in this conversation. She also omitted the auxiliary DID when she formulated some questions. However, she has improved the use of the verbs TO BE in past although Juan noticed that she still had problems using them during some passages of the conversation. Therefore, I believe that Johanna is starting to raise awareness of this aspect. She still needs to work on negative statements and asking questions.
Examples:
• No one was hurt/ We were at the hospital (Verb TO BE in past)
• The police picked up the body? (Question)
Fabiola improved her performance compared to the previous one. She was more careful in using the irregular verbs and switching tenses (from past to present). She also tried to use new verbs in past tense and she had some of them right. Although she did not use many negative statements during the interaction, she was completely accurate when she used these structures. She struggled in asking accurate questions in the past tense, but I consider that she was still in the awareness raising stage. She suffered a slight backslide in terms of conjugating Subject + Verb, but she made fewer errors in using the irregular and regular verbs. She started to pronounce the ED endings more accurately.
Examples:
• I don’t have anything accident in my life.
• I was staying for two hours.
This was Andres’s best performance in terms of accuracy. He used the irregular verbs more accurately, he formed full-length utterances and he also used the negative auxiliary verbs accurately most of the times. Andres’s main problem still is formulating accurate questions.
Johanna mentioned the opposite in terms of using the verb To Be and the past auxiliaries incorrectly.
Diana showed a little progress in terms of being accurate in using some verbs in the past tense. She still needs to learn more verbs in the past tense and to pronounce the ED endings in order to minimize her mistakes. Finally, Diana needs to organize the parts of speech when she constructs complements. Maritza noticed the same as I did.
In this interaction, Claudia managed to use more irregular verbs correctly and she was more coherent in organizing complements. She has also managed to reduce the number of mistakes when she conjugated the Subjects with the Verbs.
Andres pointed out that Claudia had some problems between the use of WAS and WERE
