About Grammar eaching

First of all, I’d like to thank for other groups’ participation and cooperation. Without your participation, we won’t have the opportunity to present what we have prepared for grammar lesson, and review our teaching procedures and styles from your feedbacks.

We presented grammar both based on PPP model (Presentation, Practice, Production) and inductive approach. It seems quite successful to learn imperative through PPP model since it is not a complex grammar pattern. However, when it comes to complicated grammar rules, such as relative clauses, it is difficult for students to learn grammatical rules merely through PPP model. It takes more time for teachers to tailor materials that can match students’ learning stages. No matter what kinds of grammars to teach, the better way for students to learn is inductive approach, that is self-discovered and learner-cantered approach.

For me, it is hard to learn grammar through memorizing grammatical rules because I seldom have chances to exercise these grammatical patterns. Rather, learning grammar by means of reading is better way since I can discovery the grammatical usages from contexts by myself.

In sum, grammar teaching should involve form, meaning, and use rather than focus on discrete rules.

Vocabulary teaching

At first, thanks that group one gives us a great presentation, which is vocabulary teaching. Group one did it good at various activities and active teaching styles. However, this presentation should be focused more specifically on vocabulary. It covered too much from vocabulary to grammar. In my point of view, grammatical rules of comparison should be eliminated. In short, group one do did a good demo for us to follow.

 

Teaching vocabulary is not an easy task. As we were at high schools, the only way for us to learn vocabulary is through memorizing deliberately. However, learning vocabulary through context is the better way. Learning vocabulary by means of reading materials is much easier because it is connected with real life. Moreover, incidental learning can be used in context-based instruction. Wide exposures to reading are the best way to acquire vocabulary incidentally.

My teaching philosophy

As an English teacher, we have to consider at least three domains, that is, cognitive, affective and psychmotor domains. It is the basic principle for teachers to consider these entirely while teaching. Therefore, for me , as a language teacher, we should design curriculums and adapt techniques based on studnets’ levels and needs. In short, being a humanistic teacher who takes students’ affective domains into consider is my teaching philosophy. Learner-centered, learner autonomy, and respecting individual differences are what I will take into account while instructing.

In my opinion, I regard teaching as craft and science. English teaching should base on scientific theories, such as information processing system, cognitive developmental stages, acquisition process, comprehensible input and so on so that teachers can design suitable pedagogy to fit students learning stages. After applying theories to practicum, English teaching becomes a craft.

As I mentioned previously, in order to teach teach properly, English teachers should at least familiarize with Bloom’s taxonomy, Piaget’s cognitive developmental stages and educational psychology. It is still not enough to be a good teacher although we are familiar with theories. We should open our mind to accept the process of trials and errors in language teaching. Modify our teaching timely and emulate others’ are the best way to be a good language teacher.

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