Essay

STUDENT'S NAME : OLIVIA

TEACHER'S NAME : VALERIE

ESSAY TITLE : LEARNING JAPANESE         WITH MY FAVORATE TEACHER

CLASS        : TESOL 31

DATE         : 7. 14

WORD COUNT : 668

[TOPIC]

LEARNING METHOD THAT MY FAVORITE JAPANESE TEACHER HAD

[Introduction]

I started to learn Japanese in highschool.

I successed to study Japanese because the type of teacher and method of teaching was fit with me.

[MAIN POINT OF EACH PARAGRAPH]

1. Learning Style - I am musical learner

2. Effective teaching

3. Involver teacher type

4. Great personality - change the students

[Conclusion]- my opinion

I have personal experience of several language learning. Among those language acquisition experience, one with Japanese learning is the most successful in my learning second language. Learning English is quite natural in Korea and I always studied English in my whole school days. So when I took the class of Japanese in the Highschool, it was quite different from learning English and I was worried whether I could deal with learning Japanese or not. But the reason why I had successful as a language learning experience is the Japanese teacher.

First of all, the style of her teaching method was fit with me. I am a kind of musical intelligence person. I often sing songs and play some instrument such as violin, piano, electronic guitar and so on. At the first time of the class, the teacher used audio-visual teaching technique. She showed us a visual aids-『Nodame Cantabile』, one of the famous drama of Japan. The drama depicts the relationship between two aspiring classical musicians as students of college of music. It inspired me to watching Japanese Drama, also it gave me interests in Japanese and it became stimulation of studying Japanese.

Secondly, the teacher created a safe, friendly, and respectful to the class. She established a great rapport with students so that students not only had open mind to her but studied Japanese more actively. Lots of students in my class liked her personality and she also certainly wanted to be a friend of us. She usually encouraged the class by telling her love story, funmy story, interesting information or the day she had experienced similar with our age. When I had a hard time with something around my life at that age, she became a good listener and gave clear, positive feedback not only Japanese but also my life which she seems to know the subject matter well. So I could just talk to her and she would always be willing to listen carefully and show respect to me and students.

Third, her teaching style was quite modern teaching which was involver type. Owing to the student who took the class consisted with first Japanese learners, she taught us from basic level and encouraged us to speak the pronouncing without hesitation. When her explain was over, she gave us courage to make some examples and figure out how to pronounce it. Furthermore, she encouraged us to participate to communicate in Japanese with each other at the school hours.

Finally, she was a good understander of students whoever is a model student or problem maker. You can easily see and also might have experience of the scene which is a teacher gave students a punishment or yelling at them when they showed unrespectful attitude or did not bring homework. Different from the teachers who punishes their students with any punishment and any reason, she tried to talk to one who did something not good. For example, one of my firends was sometimes late class and missed the classwork quite often, the teacher did not change her  tone of the voice and tried to listen to the students what happened to them and their environment around themselves. At last the student became good at Japanese and she had changed her habit of her style of time management.

The Japanese teacher at my language school was one of the best teacher in my life and I still like to us Japanese. The style of her teaching method is fit with my learning style- a musical learner style. Also she have effective teaching so that she communicates clearly and give clear, positive attitude. Also she was involver so we  had more chance to know the subjects very well. Finally she had a great personality that touches the student's mind. I will never able to forget the experience of my Japanese class and the teacher who stimulated me during 2 years. For the experience be the mirror of my teaching style, it will make the way to become a great teacher.