Essy

I believe that I can be an enabler

My Second Language Acqisition Experience

Teacher : Valerie Hamer

Name : Anne(Kim Mi Hyang)

Class:33rd.TESOL

Date : 14th.Sep.2010

Words: 703

OUTLINE

I. Introduction

I will look back the way reflecting it to the theories which I am studying.

II. Body

-As everyone have their own unique face, they also have their own           unique learning style.

-Teacher types influence students to make good result or not.

-Listening to students is the first priority necessary condition for             effective teaching.

-Modern classrooms have very helpful features for the students to learn      English.

III. Conclusion

I believe that I can be a enabler for somebody`s English acquisition.         Thanks to my teachers for struggling with poor educational conditions.

I. Introduction

English was a word that represented all unknown worlds when I started to learn it. But I`m not sure if the road that I have walked with English was good. Now I will look back the way reflecting it to the theories which I am studying.

II. Body

As everyone have their own unique face, they also have their own unique learning style. If someone is a verbal/linguistic intelligenced person, he or she might prefer reading aloud or storytelling than listening the teacher`s lecture. Musically intelligenced one would more likely to do rhyming or singing than book making. I was a good verbal, musical intelligenced student but unfortunately, there were just few chances to pronounce or speak English in my middle school English class. If there were no tapes that my mom bought for me to listen to the rhythmical reading and to copy it, I might have given up learning english. Therefore, learning styles are considered seriously when someone starts to learn foreign languages.

Teacher types influence students to make good result or not. The Enabler can be the best teacher type. This teacher knows about the subject matter very well and about methodology and about people(student). So this teacher can move between three types-Explainer, Involver, Enabler-depending on the day, the class and the aim of a lesson to make his or her student enabled. This teacher can use various skills, methods and activities without rejection symptoms. But my first English teacher couldn't do that. He was a explainer. All he can do is lecturing. The only method to enable his students to practice English was repeating after him. How boring it was! It was so boring that I almost frustrated. Becoming Enabler is not easy but to make a successful teachers have to be Enabler.

Listening to students is the first priority necessary condition for effective teaching.

Because if a teacher can sincerely listen to his or her students, it means the teacher is patient, shows respect, can give students clear feedback. Even if the teacher recognized that there is something need to be prepared before answering to the students question, it is better than not to recognize that students are missing something. In that case the teacher and the students can communicate clearly and the teacher can help the students solve their problem, overcome weak points and achieve their goal through studying together. If my middle school English teacher knew this we could make our class more effective and goal oriented than it was. But by reason of lacking time, the strict rule between teachers and students there was no enough listening to students, so despite I studied hard the knowledge that the teacher taught me and even got a good grade in the test, I couldn`t speak English as well as I expected to do. Therefore, listening to the students is Alpha and Omega in effective teaching.

Modern classrooms have very helpful features for the students to learn English. Modern classrooms are different from Traditional classrooms. There are lots of materials that make it possible for teacher to use various teaching methods. For example computer based classroom allows teachers to use audio-visual teaching method and plenty of teaching materials make it possible for students to do many kinds of interesting activities. In addition, thanks for free atmosphere, active students and smaller size of modern classrooms teacher can stay as an facilitator. In this kind of classroom I could tell my teacher what I wanted to do for making progress in my English but the classroom size was too big and the closed atmosphere did not allow me to ask teacher for something.

III. Conclusion

While I was looking back, I found an important thing. Even though my English teachers tried to do their best, other conditions were too poor. Nowadays in learning English, lots of things are changed compared with before. Learning style, teacher types, effective teaching methods and classroom atmosphere are improving steadily and have affected each other. Now, I believe that I can be an enabler for somebody`s English acquisition. Thanks to my teachers for struggling with poor educational conditions.