I find that Sylvia's Scope presentation is neat and informative.
Very sorry that real life was too complicated yesterday for live session and homework. Local bank crisis spotted at noon, preparing urgent meeting with counselor next morning plus plumbing disasters with lots of water and a kind but clumsy handyman kept me VERY busy! One trouble never comes alone!
I hope things are better next Monday.
In the meantime I can share some chunks of a video interview with a middle school student (from our study project at Vancouver Island in 2000) I edited it long ago, and put up on youtube. I wish I had more of this.
http://www.youtube.com/user/susnyropListen to his wisdom from about 20 to 35 seconds into the first one :-)
I am the invisible microphone holder, and my questions are carefully cut out! Guess what? I hated to hear myself stumble over the words, my foreign language English was even less fluent that it is today.
I remarked in another of jesai's videos (somewhere) that you also care for those who are not speaking their mother tongue; for me, this is an obstacle where I am constantly aware of myself whenever I make a recording and listen thereafter. Maybe I should try the spirit of a good brandy before action - this miracle happened some years back when I suddenly was among German only speakers, and my very dormant high school German skills got an instant revival in a Bierstube social event :-)