Second Language Acquisition Assignment

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weekend class

Joanne 김은숙

It was first to meet english when I was middle school 1st grade.  I started to memorize from alphabet.  In this day might not be imagine.  I lived the country side.   I've never seen any english book, or english magazine. so I am unfamiliar with english.  Anyway my first english class started like that.  And then we studied english word and sentence.

I had only one aim that is getting good grade in english.  I didn`t think it is kind of language and nobody told us.   I didn`t have any motive in english.  Now that I think of it  left much to be desired.

I don't think that it is success language learning experience in those days.

It was big stress from my exams seems not to be getting any interested in english as language.  but not now. as I adult learner I have experienced several another country.   I knew that english have power as univeral language of world. even I stayed in japan at that time  I worked at japanese  company.  The  company interviewer asked me  whether to can speak english or not.  In this experience  that`s why I learn english. I have motivation now.  And there is no english text if I don't want I really can enjoy studing english. actually now I am very anxious about this tesol middle text and final text........,

And compared with traditional and modern classrooms, when I was young in my classrooms atmosphere was stiff. I don`t know if u know or not.  korea was under japanese rule for 36 years. so in those day many of parts left military class culture. so class mood was very stiff .  additionally teacher can allow corporal punishment. so TTT very hight. Teachers talk and talk . They were perfect explaniner.

But now a classrooms are very different.  Each classrooms has big screen. So sometims they study with video and computer etc.  and student do homework with presentation programs and excel programs. And many school have class which can discussion in english. so student`s activities very high.

There are many kind of teacher types I met. Fortunately   teachers whom I met are very worm-hearted, generous.  and we can also explain to teacher type explainer, and involver, enabler. in traditional class case, explainer type teacher are lots of there. They talk and talk we just listened to that. but modern class teacher type different , they try to be involver and sometime try to be enabler. There are pros and cons, I think. but the important thing is the teachers try to be better.

what I think effective teaching. I think it depends on the situation.

I am teaching japanese for adults now. what I most important thing is generous mind.  because there are many generation in my class.  so I want to make them easy in my class.  As you know language can`t study very fast, it taks time a lot.

so I hope they climb stairs one at a time with an easy mind.

and learning language is learning culture. so you can use song and poem and novel, and newspaper or magazine etc many material.

and then they won`t be bored to study language.