<Essay #1>                                              89th WDT Shin insu(Sasa)

First of all, I think it is important to set the object in mind to learn a second language. I prefer visual mode of learning as my favorite ways in learning English were to be seen, recorded, written, and watched. When I was a high school student in English class, but, it didn't work on me. Because, I was not interested in learning another language at all. So, I feel like the whole time of classes was waste and useless of time. But there was the moment I had a certain motivation.

I've learned Indonesian for 4 months, even though I was not major in language of other culture. To go to Indonesia for the internship program of an abroad company my professor gave out some books about Indonesia to students in my class and I had to spend time studying those. Most of the time in class He basically focused on grammar, lexis and phonology of the language to be able to pronounce it correctly. He was really like an explainer teacher.

It was not easy for me to finish all chapters of the books as soon as possible, but, I understood that we did not have many times to prepare and learn the language perfect before arriving it on another way. I sometimes felt that the memory area of my brain was too full of the strange tongue, because of the way of 'Jug & Mug'. Sometimes the teacher often made us bored and slept by his 'Chalk and Talk'. Although there were the weak points of the explainer teacher, it didn't mean that I didn't prefer that.

I think there are also good aspects for a person, like me, who doesn't have any knowledge about his or her targeted language. The professor always said. "You must remember it." "Do your homework by tomorrow." A kind of the grind made me know some basic rules of grammar and a lot of vocabulary words quickly. Finally, I could make a full sentence exactly, not I could speak it out fluently, but I could do it totally in my head. I think those ways, which are some parts of a traditional teaching, are not so bad to build up some basic rules of a targeted language at beginning for learners, but, it worked just 30% on me.

The better one, but, was the way called “Audio-Lingual method” in class, which I had attended in Indonesia. The teacher, who had lead the class, gave me lively lessens. My classes were playing games with much dialogue everyday. Actually, studying with dialogue had affected to me a lot. I could apply practical expression to my daily life  in Indonesia. Using a dialogue box was also excellent to memorize the words automatically for a short time.

So, I could develop the abilities to listen and speak in Indonesian. I think that to have a conversation with another in a targeted language means it is already successful in  half and a big step for a bilingual. So I might say my experience regarding to the second language has worked on me pretty well.

So, I think to prefer only one way constantly in learning language is not effectual, we will need to use variety ways of learning depends on situations. therefore, we could make our language environment getting better and worth.