TESOL 95 WEEKDAY CLASS

Instructor: Jayme

TESOL 01: Second Language Acquisiton Assignment

I have liked English in the middle school. So I have learned and written English alphabet by myself before entered the middle one. Needless to say, my favorite subject was English. But after my first exam, my interest for English was getting worst more and more. Because I didn't understand English grammar. Moreover teachers' teaching method was very awful. At that time most of the teachers were used to teach grammatically. When I think about the situation, they were used chalk board without communication with students. They were crammer like as Jug and Mug and Chalk and Talk. It was really boring method.  So I can't talk in English before my English sentences that I want to talk were perfect grammar. The reason why my English speaking and writing are very poor.

Unfortunately, I didn't met good English teacher. The good teacher that I thought was given courage and concern about their students. I was an introverted person so that in those days I needed teachers' encouragement and great teaching method.

If they had have it, many students, including me of course, can speak English fluently.

I think that the most important thing is teaching method.

There are many teacher type in the field(such as kindergarten, primary school, middle and high school, etc.) with traditional and modern teaching methods. A teacher of traditional teaching method teaches GTM(Grammar Translation) but this method doesn't help productive(speaking and writing) to students. On the other hand, A teacher of modern teaching method uses TPR(Total Physical Response) and CLT(Communicative).

In my opinion, the five basic Language Systems(Phonology, Lexis, Grammar, Function, and Discourse) and the four basic Language Skills(Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) are very important principals to teach English.

I have gone English Academy a lot but my English is still poor. I also have a problem  learning method I think. So I am studying TESOL now, I really want to know and learn how to teach English method. Actually, it's very difficult for me and I don't understand all of them in the class. While I am studying Tesol, sometimes it was given stress but I am trying to do my efforts.

To live this world together so called globalization, I have to talk English. Thus I am going to live together foreign society so that I have lots of opportunities to meet foreigners so I have to cooperate each other. To do so, however, I should be better communication among them. And I want to teach English for poor children who don't know English but want to learn English.

Thank you for reading.