Which of the grammatical elements was easiest for you to learn as a student ?
It was easy for me to understand 受動態 , 現在完了, 関係代名詞 , 進行形 , 未来形 etc ...
There were two reasons why I felt easy .
Fitst , there are definite rules . If I could master the rules , I could solve any questions .
Second , there are only a few rules . I was poor at memorizing .
Which of the grammatical elements was most difficult for you to understand ?
I was poor at preposition . There were four reasons why I did not like preposotion .
First , there are many meaning .
ex) There is a book on the desk . [接触]
I went on foot . [支持]
I spend much money on books . [対照]
I bought this book on Christmas Eve . [時] etc...
Second , It is difficult for Japanese to tell .
ex) I stopped at Tokyo 0n my way to Sendai .
We lived in a small village in Scotland .
A lamp hung over the table .
Our plane was flying high above the clouds .
Third , it is hard foｒ me to remember group preposition(群前置詞) .
ex) thanks to ~ / instead of ~ / in front of ~ / in addition to ~
Finally , it is misleading .
ex) 彼女は動物について本を書いた。
She wrote a book about animals . 私たちはそのテーマについて論じる。
We discuss (× about) the subject .
私は彼女の家に到着する。
I arrive at her house .
I reach (× at) her house .
I was also poor at article . There are two reasons why I did not like article .
First , there are many meaning .
ex) There was not a cloud in the sky . [ひとつの]
A rose smells sweet . [種類全体]
This watch loses two minutes a day . [～につき]
Second , there are many idioms .
ex) after a while / by the way / on the way
Which of the grammar do you have confidence in teaching ?
I have confidence to teach 受動態 , 現在完了 , 関係代名詞 , 進行形 , 未来形 etc...
Because there are definite rules , so I thought it is easy for me to teach these grammatical elements . Maybe , I will be able to make questions and explain the grammar easily , and students also will be able to understand it and solve the questions easily . These grammatical elements are not confusing , and there are not many exceptions , so it is easy for students to memorize . What is more , teacher will be able to make chances to use these grammatical elememts , because these are often used in daily conversation .
Which grammar do you think will be difficult for you in teaching ?
① Oral phrase (会話表現)
ex) Here you are / Nice to meet you
Because I will not be able to explain the grammer with the grammers which students have already learned . If I said to students , "Please memorize this phrase." , students will memorize this . But maybe there are students who has question . I am teaching English at cram school , and one of my student said to me , "Please tell me the grammatical rules of 'Here you are'." I was perplexed the question . If he is high school student , I can explain the rule , but he is 7th grade , so he does not learn "Here is[are]~構文" and 倒置 . Then I thought that it is difficult for me to teach oral phrase .
② Preposition & Article (前置詞＆冠詞)
・ There are many meaning .
・ It is difficult for Japanese to tell .
・ It is hard for me to remember group preposition .
・ It is misleading .
③ Idiom
・ There are many same expression .
ex) show up = turn up = appear = come = arrive
put out A = turn off A = extinguish A
・ There are enormous idions .
・ There are not regular rules .
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Assignment 5 ★ May 20 , 2005
☆ Reflection on SNIFFLE's Lesson ☆
Good points of their resson
・ They told students the goal of today's lesson , so Everybody could understood what we learn today .
・ When teachers read the dialogue , they acted out using pictures and charts . Besides teachers repeated important sentences . When they read key words of the sentences , they read it slowly and clearly .
・ I thought that the way of practicing number is very marvelous !! Without notice teachers faded out . (contextualizing→coaching→scaffolding→fading) (At first we repeated after teacher slowly , next we repeated quickly , finally we counted number by ourself .)
・ They did conprehension checks . (They designed activities so students can test their knowledge .)
・ They gave a good account of students , after we prasticed hard .
・ They did gestures .
・ One of teacher wrote imortant grammar on the blackboard .
The points they might try doing differently in the future .
・ They could teach how to pronounce plural"s" and They could give them other examples of it .
(pens[ｚ] , books[s] , buses[iz])
They could teach the grammatical rule of plural .
・ They could teach how to say 58 , 139 etc .
(I think that it is hard for beginner students to understand how to say it .)
・ They could teach new words of "Queen Burgers" menu . And using the menu , students could act out practically to practice how to order menus and how to say number .
＊If teachers let students act out , they should teach "thousand". If students order many memus , students will confuse how to say large number .
・ They could give students chances to practice dialogue with students' partner .
I could enjoy myself ☆ Sniffle's class was devised well !! Junior high school students will be interested in learning English if students took their class (V)o￥o(V) I feel admiration for their wonderful lesson ☆★☆
Good points of their resson
・ They told students the goal of today's lesson , so Everybody could understood what we learn today .
・ When teachers read the dialogue , they acted out using pictures and charts . Besides teachers repeated important sentences . When they read key words of the sentences , they read it slowly and clearly .
・ I thought that the way of practicing number is very marvelous !! Without notice teachers faded out . (contextualizing→coaching→scaffolding→fading) (At first we repeated after teacher slowly , next we repeated quickly , finally we counted number by ourself .)
・ They did conprehension checks . (They designed activities so students can test their knowledge .)
・ They gave a good account of students , after we prasticed hard .
・ They did gestures .
・ One of teacher wrote imortant grammar on the blackboard .
The points they might try doing differently in the future .
・ They could teach how to pronounce plural"s" and They could give them other examples of it .
(pens[ｚ] , books[s] , buses[iz])
They could teach the grammatical rule of plural .
・ They could teach how to say 58 , 139 etc .
(I think that it is hard for beginner students to understand how to say it .)
・ They could teach new words of "Queen Burgers" menu . And using the menu , students could act out practically to practice how to order menus and how to say number .
＊If teachers let students act out , they should teach "thousand". If students order many memus , students will confuse how to say large number .
・ They could give students chances to practice dialogue with students' partner .
I could enjoy myself ☆ Sniffle's class was devised well !! Junior high school students will be interested in learning English if students took their class (V)o￥o(V) I feel admiration for their wonderful lesson ☆★☆
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Assignment 4 ★ May 13 , 2005
Working with Input ☆彡
Which points of this lesson did you agree with or find helpful and why ?
First , I thought it is helpful to reformulate utterances . Because when Mr.Hall said to us , "Reformulations of utterance" , I did not understand what the words meant . But I could understand it by myself , after he said to us , "It is to say one thing in various ways" . It is easy for us to understand the words which was translated into Japanese , but if we understood difficult words by ourselves , we would get pleasure and the pleasure make an impresion of the words .
Second , I agreed with using the real things and pictures or charts . When I took Spanish class , family tree helped me to understand the explanation and new bocabularies . That is , the explanation with pictures is much more intelligible than the explanation without using pictures , because if teachers wrote pictures on blackboard , we could image and understand through the pictures . It is helpful to use not only ears but also eyes .
Third , I also agreed with doing total physical response . Because I could really enjoy myself , and I could understand and remember new bocabularies easier by using my body . Maybe students will feel same things with me . I think if we had more time to do activity of students during classes , we will not bore students . Only teacher's explanation is monotonous , so this activity will stimulate them .
Finally , It is helpful for us to make gestures to teach new vocabularies . When Mr.Hall tought us the names of our body's parts in Spanish , he used this way . For example , when he taught us how to speak shoulder , he touched his shoulder . And when he explained strength , he frowmed and spoke in a deep voice . So I could understand those words which I had never heard before in only Spanish . Thus , it is effective to do gestires to teach students new vocabularies in their second language .
Which points of this lesson did you agree with or find helpful and why ?
First , I thought it is helpful to reformulate utterances . Because when Mr.Hall said to us , "Reformulations of utterance" , I did not understand what the words meant . But I could understand it by myself , after he said to us , "It is to say one thing in various ways" . It is easy for us to understand the words which was translated into Japanese , but if we understood difficult words by ourselves , we would get pleasure and the pleasure make an impresion of the words .
Second , I agreed with using the real things and pictures or charts . When I took Spanish class , family tree helped me to understand the explanation and new bocabularies . That is , the explanation with pictures is much more intelligible than the explanation without using pictures , because if teachers wrote pictures on blackboard , we could image and understand through the pictures . It is helpful to use not only ears but also eyes .
Third , I also agreed with doing total physical response . Because I could really enjoy myself , and I could understand and remember new bocabularies easier by using my body . Maybe students will feel same things with me . I think if we had more time to do activity of students during classes , we will not bore students . Only teacher's explanation is monotonous , so this activity will stimulate them .
Finally , It is helpful for us to make gestures to teach new vocabularies . When Mr.Hall tought us the names of our body's parts in Spanish , he used this way . For example , when he taught us how to speak shoulder , he touched his shoulder . And when he explained strength , he frowmed and spoke in a deep voice . So I could understand those words which I had never heard before in only Spanish . Thus , it is effective to do gestires to teach students new vocabularies in their second language .
Which points of this lesson did you disagreed or did not find helpful and why ?
First , I disagreed with using students as examples . There are not only positive and cheerful students but also negative and quiet students in the classes . So we should not use this way easily , we should use after we can understant students's character well . Perhaps , we may say the words which the student worries about , and we may hurt their feelings . Whether students are interested in the subject or not depend on it that they like the teacher . So we have to behave carefully , and take full responsibility for this behavior .
Next , I did not find helpful about traditional vocabulary learning . Of course , there are many advantages , for example , we can learn many words once , teachers can teach fast and so on . But there are many disadvantages , too . For taking entrance examination , I had to remember new vocabularies as many as possible in the class . So most of high school English teachers did traditional vocabulary learning . During the class , I could remember many new vocabularies and I felt this is the best way to learn them . But I forget those vocabularies easily day by day , and finally I forget almost of them . So I thought this way can not make long-term memory , because we can not use them practically . It is more efficient to learn them certainly even the number which we can learn is small than to learn many vocabularies uncertainly .
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Assignment 3 ★ May 3 , 2005
My first Spanish class
1) How much of the presentation in Spanish did you understand?
I think I could understand 80 percent of today's mini lesson . It was easy for me to understand Spanish words like Padre , Madre , but it was difficult for me to do handout without looking at blackboard because I could not remember .
What made the input comprehensible and what could have been done to make the language easier to understand?
・ At first teacher drew family tree , so it was easy for us to image and expect .
・ The theme of today's mini lesson was intimate for us , so I was interested in the study . (The words which we learned today are used frequenrly and we have many chances to use these words .)
・ Teacher spoke Spanish slower pace , clearly and simply .
・ Teacher said same things again and again , so I had a time to think and understand .
・ The expression and gestures of teacher helped us to understand Spanish .
2) Did you learn any new words or new grammar in Spanish?
・ Mi means my .
・ Si means yes .
・ No means no .
・ "---a" means female .
・ "---o" means male .
・ Persona means person .
・ Titulo means relationship .
・ Quien means what .
3) How did you feel about being a beginning foreign language student?
I was nervous at first , because I hardly understood what thacher was speaking . I had both hopes and fears , but fears were much bigger than hopes . At first I was not interesting , because I could not understand at all . The hurdle which we have to get over to learn something new is very very high , it is beyond my expectations . I really remembered and understood the feeling of students who try to study somethig new . I realized that begining is the most important terms for students to become interested in the subject . The attitude toward study develops on whether students are interest in the subject in the begining or not . That is to say , we have to grip the attention of students , and we have to interest them in the subjects . It is our duty , and we have to perform the duty . For that purpose we have to choose a theme carefully and research teaching materials closely .
I felt importance of teachers again , and I remembered the feeling of students who study English for the first time . What is more , I felt the difficulty of teaching a foreign language to learners , because first of all we have to fascinate them .
1) How much of the presentation in Spanish did you understand?
I think I could understand 80 percent of today's mini lesson . It was easy for me to understand Spanish words like Padre , Madre , but it was difficult for me to do handout without looking at blackboard because I could not remember .
What made the input comprehensible and what could have been done to make the language easier to understand?
・ At first teacher drew family tree , so it was easy for us to image and expect .
・ The theme of today's mini lesson was intimate for us , so I was interested in the study . (The words which we learned today are used frequenrly and we have many chances to use these words .)
・ Teacher spoke Spanish slower pace , clearly and simply .
・ Teacher said same things again and again , so I had a time to think and understand .
・ The expression and gestures of teacher helped us to understand Spanish .
2) Did you learn any new words or new grammar in Spanish?
・ Mi means my .
・ Si means yes .
・ No means no .
・ "---a" means female .
・ "---o" means male .
・ Persona means person .
・ Titulo means relationship .
・ Quien means what .
3) How did you feel about being a beginning foreign language student?
I was nervous at first , because I hardly understood what thacher was speaking . I had both hopes and fears , but fears were much bigger than hopes . At first I was not interesting , because I could not understand at all . The hurdle which we have to get over to learn something new is very very high , it is beyond my expectations . I really remembered and understood the feeling of students who try to study somethig new . I realized that begining is the most important terms for students to become interested in the subject . The attitude toward study develops on whether students are interest in the subject in the begining or not . That is to say , we have to grip the attention of students , and we have to interest them in the subjects . It is our duty , and we have to perform the duty . For that purpose we have to choose a theme carefully and research teaching materials closely .
I felt importance of teachers again , and I remembered the feeling of students who study English for the first time . What is more , I felt the difficulty of teaching a foreign language to learners , because first of all we have to fascinate them .
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