Humankind has been used many languages to communicate each other. Also, The way of the learning language and teaching is different with each country and past and now. I am going to explain what I had experienced about foreign language environment. Also, Describing what I learned in the TESOL 01 Module relating characteristics of adult learners, traditional VS modern classroom, teacher types, and effective teaching. In this essay, Contained personal experience of learning English in the U,S,A at 1994. And also, learning from high school.

To begin with, When I was in navy service at that time, I had chance to learn English in U,S,A. The Defence Language Institute located on the Texas in America for international military personnel, There were successful language learning experienced that I explain, There were only 8 or 10 students, This mean that, I had many opportunity to talk with teacher and students that I had satisfied with speaking  chance. Teacher should not talk too much to us, Just listening to our speech, repeat sentence. Students talk time much longer than our country. It was new teaching methods never learned before, Now I am thinking about the method name that we call the Audio-Lingual method. When I made mistake to speak some words and sentence pronunciation that I recognized what I spoke wrong and collect, Then, we should take test every 2 weeks. Probably, we knew directly the test result from school. Students got to know whether my level is improved or not. They provided with suitable level of English books and teaching material for each member of student. The most important things is that student could follow up English book and teaching way. When I asked teacher in term of English grammar and vocabulary she taught very kindly to me using the pictures or motions in stead of dictionary. we had good relationship with teach and students. Teacher made efforts to have strong rapport. Teacher always respect each member of students. They tried to good creating a positive learning atmosphere in the classroom. For example ; she was non-judgemental, Also, she had good sense of humor During the class. I could get more confidence from teacher. Finally, I could have more understanding and passion when I was learning English in D,L,I.

On the other hand, When I was a high school student. that time, I had spending hard time in English class. All of teachers used their own way. This means that students must follow the Grammar-Translation method. I was spending a lot of time translation sentence and reading texts. Sometimes, I gave up that translate the passage from English into Korean, The reason why, I was not interesting about learning English during the high school, Even after graduating from university. I

did not know how speak, listening and reading, writing English. I was absolutely failure learning second language. It was not effective and helpful teaching methods for students. This kind of teaching methods depend on explaining or lecturing as a way of conveying information to students.

Conclusion, What I mentioned above, In case of successful learning

English is D,L,I, Especially, Most of students were adult learners that they had goal-oriented and a foundation of life experiences & knowledge. Also, There were obviously modern classroom methods and

and involver teacher. Teachers used many different type methods when teaching to give motivation and students have many chances to speak and write which are productive skills. on the other hand, In case of failure learning English in high school, Teachers used to teach students very strictly. All teachers try to explain that have limited knowledge of teaching methodology. This kind of methods are traditional and explainer type teacher. Effective teaching is to enable students to communicate in the target language. We should not only use one type of teaching method but also use many various type methods. But, It depends on what situation we in front with us. According to the flow of the times, we have to find a way to effective education.

89th WD T jae-ho An(Andy)