REPORT

traditional-modern classrooms

teacher types

effective teaching

theories of 2nd language acquisition

Name : Molly

Teacher's name : Valerie Hamer

Class # : 34(WK)

Date : Nov,13th,2010

My second language acquisition experience

Traditional - modern classrooms.

You know, traditional teacher made students memorize english. When I was a middle school student, I learned alphabets for the first time. The teacher taught me alphabet using his voice. It took 30 minutes to learn alphabets. And then it was a homework to completely finish memorize them. Some students got stress to finish the homework include me. In modern class, there are many worksheets, books and flash card to study alphabet. And also there are a lot of games to acquisite the alphabet. Students don't need any effort to memorize them. They know alphabets naturally. Students don't need to put effort to memorize them and get any stresses. In modern class students acquire english naturally.

Teacher types

When I started a work teaching kindergarten students, I didn't have any experiences and knowledges. So I attended the class that the other teachers class to learn how to teach students. I know it's not good way to distinguish a teacher who get a Tesol certification from the other who don't get anything. The teacher who has sudied teaching methods know how to communicate well with her students. Also when the students get a wrong answer, she just listen well. She make them get a confidence. That's why what I want to be. She prepares a lot of games, worksheets and activities. She tries to make the students acquire english by natural.

On the other hand, the teacher who has never studied about the teaching methods has no activities, interesting stories and examples at all. As soon as she enters the classroom, she make the students open their books. She tells about the simple directions and played the CD player. Students listened and repeated. Only the teacher can talk in that class. Sometimes she was yelling in korean. It was terrible.

Effective teaching

If students accept language as a play, it can be an effective teaching. Actually I'm not sure about an effective teaching, so I attend this TESOL class. But I feel the class atmospheres whenever students are bored or not. At least, my students attend the class actively and look happy, it can be success.

Theories of 2nd language acquisition

When I was a middle school student, a friend of mine liked pop song very much, at that time I just know alphabet, though. One dey, I listen to the song 'Love me tender' through the radio. I wanted to sing a song like my friend. So I recorded the song and repeated many times. And then wrote it down in korean sounds. After that, I got interests about pop song and pop singer. And I started to find the Hollywood gossip. To read the gossip and to know about the pop song, I studied english. Pop song and pop singer attracted me and I wanted to study english. Now I am interested in everything related with english language. People who speaks english, drama, movie, song and article. I think that studying 2nd language is not only study language but also know its culture.