J Y

          On Christmas day was our second class of big teaching. The main goals of the big teaching on this class were reviewing and games that helped the learners review. My group and the other two groups all prepared some activities that were a little bit different from ones in the previous week.         The Korean group first guided us to play an easy game which was called carrot squat. In the game, each person represented one kind of food taught last week, and one person had to call another person’s food name in the game. The one who could not call the name right would be eliminated. The game would not come to an end until all members of one group were all eliminated. Carrot squat was a fast and easy game for the learners to review the vocabulary taught in previous class. It also added fun in this class. After this in-class game, we had another game that we needed to run up and down the Ji-tao building. The...

        On 12/18 we had our first big teaching in Introduction of Language Learning, and this was my first to teach others learning a whole new language. My group taught Japanese, which was a common foreign language that Taiwanese liked to learn. In the classroom of big teaching, there were still other two groups which taught Korean and Malay. The learning and teaching on the two big teaching days were quite interesting and worth recording.         The first group that taught Korean was funny and interesting. They made their class looked like video games. The main character, which was called “ajuma”, caught our eyes of this class. “ajuma” meant old woman in Korean, and it could be often heard in Korean dramas and TV programs. They had the teaching based on the scenario of buying food from ajuma, and the they taught us how to get food from food stands in Korean. One thing I perceived from this teaching was that the...

        In the first year of senior high school, when I became a 10 th -grader-student, I met several teachers that impressed me a lot. I could still remember how their classes looked like and the contents they taught. Among those teachers, I remember my English teacher, who was also my homeroom teacher the most. As a freshman of senior high school, I was not shocked by the high pressure of the courses because I had learned contents of high school English classes when I still stayed in the first cram school, the same one I mentioned in the second blog. Getting scores that satisfied myself was not too difficult for me. But with the help of my English teacher, I thought I learned English with more solid grounding.         The teacher held lots of teaching activities during the class in that year. The first activity I remembered was playing games with kahoot!. I was fascinated by the way we competed with each other a...

Before this speech, I often wondered how to make myself speak English as fluent and accurate as the native speakers. There were lots of classes and ways which emphasized that learners could improve their oral skill effectively in Taiwan, but the results seemed not as obvious as I had imagined. The reason that I care about improving oral skill is that oral is the most direct way to put one language into use. Students in Taiwan spend lots of time learning the other three skills but exclude the most direct skill, and the phenomenon have appeared for decades. Many people seek help from cram schools to improve their oral skill but eventually failed. Terry introduced his journey and the way he indulged in learning languages in many countries. The way he adopted was called “language immersion”. He went to many countries and live with the locals and travelers from around the world. He learned foreign languages just like babies learn their native languages. Not only do the instructor not co...

  Yesterday, I attended the speech held by our department, and the topic of the speech was the career that students from department of English could choose in the future. The lecturer, Sonny, was a professional translator. In this lecture, he not discussed three kinds of careers that most students form department of English would probably choose in the future, including English teaching, working in foreign companies, and translation. Sonny discussed about the education of English in Taiwan in the speech. He pointed out that people should put more emphasis on writing and speaking than reading and listening. Also, there were too many people who did not view basic skills as important ones, and it was caused by “fast food culture”. People who wanted to improve their English skills should follow the three steps: being correct, being fluent, and being local. When learning, try various ways to learn English and learn to express in English. People could read news, letter, ads, novels, bi...

        In the summer vacation before I became sophomore, I made my heart to learn Korean. As the semester begins, I was quite excited to learn it. Since I had listened to k-pop songs for half and a year and learned alphabets on the Net, it was not difficult for me to dip into learning Korean. Before I start the class, I was always busy remembering many names of idols. Memorizing the alphabets and the pronunciation was a piece of cake for me.         Time flies, I learned more and more about Korean, but I also faced some difficulties when learning. I was poor at learning grammar, and I found it difficult for me to learn Korean auxiliary verbs. The same word would serve as different usage in different sentences, like past tense used in past sentence and in hypothetical sentence in English. There was a period that I mix all the usages of auxiliary verbs when practicing composing the sentences. Finally, I sorted out al...