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The Key of  
Educating Second Language 
(related to personal opinion)

TESOL 163
Teacher: Miss Jasmine
Name: Jeong Bohyeon (Belle)

 I had never lived in places where only use English. So I'll write about my experiences of two private academies. The first academy's teacher was a native speaker of English. I enrolled the class because I wanted to learn more about English but the first impression of that class was so awful. There was no communication between the teacher and the students. The teacher had never tried to elicit the students' potential. He wasn't interested in making rapport with students. He just read the text book and marked some words on the board. And there was always a chill atmosphere in class. He didn't care about the ice break. I felt I was like some sort of Non-living things in that place. Therefore I had to quit that class. After several years, An academy that I found was totally different from the first one. At the first class the teacher asked me 'why is this important to you?' That question had made me more motivated. Before start, she (named Amanda) had checked my level carefully, and made the start point very clearly.  She always asked me 'what is your favorite thing, how is your personality like?' When she heard my experiences, she focused on me, and honestly expressed her feelings about what I said. When I was facing a difficult question, she waited for me with patience. I'm sure that her class was with an effective teaching. She always used these three of Empathy, Authenticity, Respect. I think it's the key of building a good relationship between person and person and it is also very important to language learning. I think her way of teaching was about the above-mentioned. Thanks to her effort to try to make rapport with me. With the basic trust that she gave me, her class was my successful experience of studying English. 
 To know every student's strength and weakness and intelligence is quite difficult. Nevertheless, the effort to get to know it, and study about it, is essentially required.
 Thinking about my beliefs about teacher, teacher should be able to help students to be confident, to be motivated. Teachers should know the individual differences, and the Multiple Intelligence. Every student has his or her own intelligence. Therefore  the use of their multiple intelligence to elicit their abilities is considered. Teacher should try not to exclude not a single student in that process. (sounds like a person with supernatural powers)
 There are three different types of teachers. They are the explainer, the involver, the enabler. I think these are all important with some reason. But each of roles of three types of teachers should be distributed with an appropriate rate in class. Without a guide or explanation of teachers, I might say it would be a very long journey for the students. However, if there are too much of explanation or guidance, teacher might take students' opportunities to improve their abilities away. So I'll have to consider about those three types of teachers. But mostly I prefer the enabler. And there was a traditional teaching, with symbols of chalk and talk, jug and mug, etc. This traditional teaching can make students passively. According to the theory of Second Language Acquisition (by Krashen), Second language learning cannot be simple. A young age is ideal for acquiring language as we all know. But I believe that grown ups can still have that possibilities. Acquisition process will never end. There are five main hypotheses about that theory. Acquisition vs Learning Hypothesis, The Natural Order Hypothesis, The Monitor Hypothesis, The Input Hypothesis, Affective Filter Hypothesis. As written, language learning should be considered in many ways. It needs lots of effort, thoughts, plans, and realia etc. It's not just about repeating like Drills. Language Learning education must be delivered covering from the Intergrated Approach to the expansion of Language Skills & System.
 Lastly, with the knowledge from CSULB TESOL, I want to be a good teacher like Amanda who can help students to have success in English. And I'll continue to study for the best way of educating to my students.