A Reflection on Week#3 discussions

I was amazed and interested after watching the video about the differences between Asians and Westeners thoughts and cultures of language. I think one of the big difference between them is Westerners have strong individualities whereas Asians are the opposite. Especially in Korea, there is a word 'Jung-정' which means attachment and we say ' You have a lot of Jung'. The other big difference is Asians do not have creativity like Westerners have. To support this, we believe it is a good culture that if parents set a path for offspring and they should follow that path. May be because of this, many Asians have a hard time thinking about their real future and what they want. Also, Westerners are more open minded so they do not have a bad prejudice about tattoo and we can see so many various and characteristics.
I hope good things between Asians and Westerners' culture and thoughts combine well in future.

What materials, tools, and/or sites have been most useful to you as a language learner?
For me, watching or listening the medias has been the most useful material to me as a language learner. I once heard that listening English 6 hours a day help English listening skill so I occionally listen to Arirang Radio. It is fun because the contents of this are various. They are suitable for young generations because some Korean celebrities appear on the radio. Also the hosts are bilingual, they teach new words and say same sentence twice in English and in Korea. It is really helpful.

Can you think of times when you learned language by the different historical approaches…

   - Grammar Translation Method?

 

At school, and Hak Wons, i learned so many grammars but i never remember them

 

    - Audiolingual?

 

I learned many dialogues in English classes at school.  First we heard conversations  then practice with partners.

 

- Communicative Language Teaching?

 

 During study in university, i took several conversation classes that had CLT

 

Which have you experienced the most?

 It's GTM that i have the most experienced but sadly i'm not good at grammar.

How will you balance these approaches as a teacher?

I will use grammar traslation method as lightly as possible like a game for example I will make matching games for sentences or idiom pharases that goes together so students can learn and aquire grammar easily.
For audiolingual, I will play a famous song among students, so they can listen and dictate as they have a jolly time.
Then students can communicate themselves with free talking. That way they wouldn't have a pressure of using English.

A reflection about what was discussed during class

Our group spent much time of talking about 'i+1'input but we all only thought of 2 common ideas. one is reading English books that are published for childeren like Penguin Publisher and the other is watching media with subtitles. In my English learning life these really helped me improve my English.   When i choose an english book first i see a sentence and find words that i donot understand. if i find more than 2 ~3 unfamiliar words i drop it and find another book. Also personally there are steps with watching media, at the very first i saw children's media like Sponge Bob and when i get used to this and understand i watched sitcoms such as Malcom in the Middle and Friends. Then I began to saw movies and soap dramas and still see them with subtitles.