2007年5月20日日曜日

the Prosent and Learn Approach vs. Teaching through Input Approach

Hi☆
We had a class about Teaching Vocablary through Input in last Friday.
There are two ways to teach it, that are 'the Present and Learn Approach' and 'the Teaching through Input Approach. '
I link the page that the have the power point which our teacher showed us in the class.So if you whould like to look,please click here
http://www.englisheducation.iwate-u.ac.jp/Hall/kyouikuhou/TeachingVocabulary.files/frame.htm

Today,I want to write about the strength and weekness of each approach for the first, and after that,witch approach I want to use if I am a junior high scool English teacher.

First, I write about the strength and weekness of each approach.

○Strengh
Students listen what the teacher telling with thinking the content of it very carefuly so,their listening ability can be improved.And they can understand what that is in as it was (they can catch the nuance of the word in English.)
○Weekness
Students can't understand if the teacher can't tell them in clearly,not with using the words they can understand.And also, some students may not be able to understand with listening,some students may not be able to understand with the teacher's talking for a long time so students feel boring.(this approach have short amount of acticity)
<Teaching through Input Approach>
○Strengh
Students can understand with various activities the teacher prepared for. So they are be able to input with having fun and using English(If they can't use English properly, they can notice which point they don't understand with themselves)
○Weekness
For students whose character is shy, this approach isn't suitable because the activity is very important in this approach but they can't do it positively.

They can understand with presentation of the teacher or with acticivites the teacher prepared for but there are no writing work in these. Power point tell us checking their knowkledge is also important and I think so too.So, I think writing work is needed to both approaches and I want to checking thire knowledge with writing.(May be someone and say that'It is something like a test!I hate tests!-Laugh)

Second,I write about which approach I want to use if I am a junior high school teacher.
The answer to this question is 'Presnt and Learn Approach.'
I have some reasons for choosing this approach.
I think there are a little opprtunity for students to improve their listening ablity.
I think listening is very important because we catch Enflish with hearing for the first
and think what they say and think and after that get meanings of the sentence and use the Enflish finaly.
And also students think what I say very carefully because if they don't hear, they'll be confuse to study. Keeping listening and thinking for a long time is very difficult to students but I want them they'll be able to stnad to listen to Enflish.
Of course, I don't teach students in this approach always. I think we have to use the methd the most match to students and it is the most important and difficult to choose. To do it without any confuse, we have to know who they are in daily life.

2007年5月14日月曜日

Communicative activities

Hi☆
Today, I write about two communicative activities presented to us in the class of my university.
If we have a English class to teach children, there are a lot of way to teach.
One of the way were the communicative activities.
You can look the page which has the material we used in the lesson here→[http://www.englisheducation.iwate-u.ac.jp/Hall/kyouikuhou/TypicalCommunicativeActivities.files/frame.htm]

The first one was ''Information Gap'' which give different information to two person that which have one have information A but don't have B,and the other have information B but don't have A.
I had this activity fun but that was because I know how to tell the other without any examples to tell the other in English.
I think teacher want to point us only the example of the method because that was the topic.
So I don't make out this perpose is the truly the improvement, but I think we should point a lot of the example of how to tell the other the information exactly.
And this is a improvement I think, if childran make this quiz with theirself, that is very fun.
Making is very difficult because they can't write if they con't understand truly.
So,teacher have to do more support to children but students can have fun and understand deeply.

The second one was ''Interview'' which...are...example, children decide a sentence from some choice to make a sentence interview to others and after the interview time, present the result that they can find out the one who make the same sentense.
I think this activity is very easy way to practice talking with others.
If I improve this activity,I want all students interview to others but there are some students whose character is 'not positive.' For such students this activity can't do so nicely.
So, for the first time we practice with a few time to do the interview and then,make a number to do the interview and when we the interview, not only do 'with anyone you like'but also 'you have to do these person.'
Ofcourse, I don't think we have to do this activity like this everytime but I think we have to think the situation like this...

And last this is a very personal impression to the interview activity...I don't have fun when I did it,
Because I couldn't find the person who have the same idea.
So, I propose that we do this avtivity for the early time in one lesson and make students to find out the same sentense absolutely and make a pair to attend(do?) the lesson with.
After that activity and propose another activity, children can talk with person who haven't talked with.

What do you think about this propose of mine??

2007年5月8日火曜日

Something important for me...

When I was young, my mother bought me many picture books and used to read to me so often.
Thanks to that, I like reading very much.
Especially, I like fiction novels because I can imagine the world in that book and to become a hero, wizard and so on!
Imaging make me feel interesting and that is the nice point of those. We can imagine freely(no one can distablish us!) and to be one of the person(sometimes not a heman) and talk, laugh, cry with the people in that warld.
They tell me many things that I don' t know and useful ideas so I remember it in that world and back to the real world, I can use that to live more confortable.
I can't imagine that there are no books in this world and if there are books, I want to read and get many thing interested me in my whole life.