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        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...