Second Language Acquisition Assignment

Hyun Ju ( Nam Hyun Ju )

There is important to learn English in Korea society. Thesedays, young children to elders go aboard to study second language. I think learning second language it is important to adult learners, teacher types and leaning theories.

First, it is important to learning styles. If teacher explain something to some adult, they can understand very fast because they have many experiences. However teacher teaches same things to children they don't understand it. Because they have not been experienced. So teacher think about adult or children. I think if you teach children you should use painting and cassette player.

Second, I am sure the teaching style is also very important for students to learn second language. When I was high school student, I learned in English and Chinese. English class was very boring. Teacher always talk to alone and she didn't listen to student's demands. She always gave student materials. She explained alone. Student were not interested in English class. However Chinese class is very fun. Teacher and student talk to each other. Teacher always prepare gift for actively participating student so classmate always fell very fun to learn in Chinese.

Finally, I think teacher also studies to teach very well, there are many type of learning theories. Personally I like using the visual and auditory. Nowadays I am interested in American drama. Turning on the computer I watch the drama. When I watch the drama, I think " I go to America, and

I make American friends and I learn their culture." so I always listen to conversation and I think this situation. I want to lean culture and lifestyle than out of pure necessity English. We can learn in English through listening to the story. When I commuted by bus, I always listen to the pop. I tried to understand lyrics. I think Auditory is useful for busy person to study English.

We spent much time and money for learning English, I think I am still not good at English as compared with spending time for learning English. Because I think when I went to school, it was important to know grammar in English so we studied grammar with receiving material. Almost student were not interested in learning English. If we meet foreigner, people will avoid them. We learned for more then 6 years but we speak English poorly. If we learned English with roll play or group work, we speak English well more then now. Nowadays to enter the company, we gain high grade in TOEIC. Many university students studied TOEIC but company also demands speaking. My student also go aboard to study English and to speak English very well. If we speak each other making group for roll-play and communicate slowly but steadily, we can have confidence in English and easy to speak to foreigners.

There are lots of difficulties in learning second language. There are many element that adult learner, learning styles, teacher types, good teachers, learning theories etc. I think these are  important and related each other. Almost Korean learn second language. I will be an English teacher, I want to make sure of myself to be a good teacher.