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.

outline of talk show

1. introducing us
2. telling what the talk show is about
3. telling our experiences
4. telling about mudang




THE END

creative writing

When I was a highschool student, all day I was a skygazer and wanted to be astronomy. So after school I always made a pit stop in a park because sky looks more beautiful with green nature. But as I was not a brainy student I gave my dream up quickly. Anyway since I was a far from my home, I had homesick many times. Then my Korean friend gave me all sorts of Korean movies. Even though I cringe every time I see scary or too violent movies, they are my favourite genres. One of my fancy action movies is called AJuSsi, a hero owned a pawn shop to have a quiet life because he was hiding his identity. But one day his young friend who the hero feels pampers about her was taken by bad people who are vendors of organs and gyp. So he went off on a tangent to save that friend in spite of exposing himself. The bad guys did not know he was a short fuse and a dangerous person who was trained by a nation. The ending was he finally save the girl and arrested for murders. I felt so angry and sad that he got arrested.

about language learning websites

last friday, Mr.Lebow let us know many learning websites. he taught us where to find those before but to be honest i was not interested and it was a bother to look what they are. however when Mr.Lebow demonstrated writing lyrics after listening a song from Lyricstraining.com, it excited me . so as soon as demonstration was finished. i tried lyrics. guess what? it was hard and i lost an interest with it. then i watched TED, i always pick videos about sea, guess what? i realised i had seen it before when the video was nearly finished. i felt good about it because i know what interests me. its sea animals especially what lives in deep sea. NEXT i tried rice game from FreeRice,com , i felt terrible and stupid after 2rounds. i must study vocabs!!!!!!!!!!!!  Anyway i had a go at popword. at first i sought words then i just clicked wherever and it was more working then seeking words from my knowledge. so SAD.  friday's class gave me a stimulus.

Night work could damage your health

"Save yourself from night shifts' diseases"

The article is about our working shifts at night could end up to serial sickness.

According to researchers from the Sleep Research Center  at the U.K's University of Surrey, many genes

in the body need to follow a regular 24-hour cycle, during which the body sleeps at night. If this cycle is 

broken, up to 1,500 genes could get damaged. From this research, they suggests not to have night shifts 

in order to damage our health. The diseases can be a risk of several cancers, diabetes, mental illnesses and

heart diseases. The researcher recommended us to have a regular sleeping pattern.

We all know that many  Korean workers always work through all nights. I think it's one of Korean's habitation that must be fixed. This article has to be spread all over the country so people we love won't die or get sick.

     VOCABULARY 

1. Diabetes                     당뇨병
2. Immune system           면역 체계
3. Susceptible                 민감한
4. out-of-sync                 화합되지않는
5. Shift                            교대
6. Mitigate                       경감시키다

Source:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1401/140123-night-work.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2542780/Working-shifts-damage-1-500-genes-New-finding-explain-shift-work-associated-health-problems.html