Tuesday 21st February, 2017

Learning experience in "Seminar in English Language Teaching"subject.

Today,We learned and discussed about "Factor that affect English Teaching" and this topic can be divided : At first Student can be divided to
                                                            - Age
                                                            - Learner differences
                                                            - Motivation
For the age topic divided into 3 types :
The first, Young children ( respond to meaning, learn indirectly, understanding comes from what they see, hear, or touch, need of individual attention, short attention span, keen to talk about themselves).
The second, Adolescents ( discipline problems, like challenges, less motivated, need approval, individual identity).
The third, Adult learner ( Adult have discipline and they have endurance with boredom. They can analyze every thing is good and they have easy to understand and clearly include they have goal for learning that clearly).
For learner differences topic divided into 3 kinds :
The first, Aptitude ( Intellectual ability )
The second, Good learner characteristics ( understanding, responsibility, active, well prepare, to be determined to learn, and etc. )
For the learner styles : Tony Wright, a methodologists, describes four different learner styles as follow :
1. The 'enthusiast'     = goal of group
2. The 'oracular'       = Personal goal
3. The 'participator   = Personal that participant the activity
4. The 'rebel'            = Personal that don't like rules
And Keith Willing think about learner styles as follow :
1. Convergers      : independent, confident, analytic
2. Conformists    : prefer to learning about language over learning to use it ; dependent on authority and happy to work in non-communicative classrooms, doing what they are told, prefers to see well-organized teachers
3. Concrete learner : though they are like conformist, they also enjoy social aspects of learning to learn from direct experience; interest in language use as communication, enjoy games and group work.
4. Communicative learners : language use oriented; interested in social interaction; confident and willing to take risks, perfectly happy to operate without the guidance of the teacher.
For language levels divided :
1. Advanced
2. Upper intermediate
3. Mid-intermediate
4. Lower-intermediate / pre-intermediate
5. Elementary
6. Beginner
And  the last topic, Motivation topic are :
1. Defining motivation
    - Extrinsic motivation
    - Intrinsic motivation
2. Sources of motivation
For the teacher about :
1. Teacher's beliefs
2. Teacher's ability in using English
3. Teaching methods & styles
4. Teacher's use of teaching & learning materials / learning environment
After that, teacher gave a knowledge sheet that it was extra informations which we learned in the class. The teacher told us that "Neuro-linguistic programming, these systems and described in the acronym :
V  : Visual
A  : Auditory
K : Kinaesthetic
O : Olfactory
G  : Gustatory
For the class today I got  a lot of knowledge and I developed English skills. Today,I could get easily to understand information.

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