2009年2月25日 星期三

1. Many students can't pronunce few of the vocabulary, but they are fluently and correctly in writing and spelling.

2. Is Semantic Mapping(clustering) equal to Mind Map? Because thier functions seems falimilar with each other: provide some order to the chaos.

3. I think not only discourse markers but also punctuation marks can can greatly enhance readers' reading efficiency. For instance, I have a friend who likes to leave out English words or phrases as well as punctuation marks that often makes me hard to understand frequently and exhausets me(especially English is my foreign language) to guess the meaning from his sentences.

4. Using "scan" skill in reading section for the specific information and "selective" type in listening sction to find important(specific) information in a field of potentially distracting information of IELTS test. ---> I am not sure whether the two skills also can apply to the TOEFL test or not.

2009年2月19日 星期四

1. How will Grammar Translatoion Method and Audio-Lingual Method think the " Internalized Systematic Rule ( Systematic Stage of Acquisition) in learning foreign language?

2. Sometimes I think things which make you step out a big forward without thinking and worry too much and premise the unexpected consequnces which has already been accumulated enough time(experiences) or time or potential behind in the back. The process just likes that students begin to speak the target language when they are ready or have passed the breakthrough stage while in the supeior(advanced) level.

2009年2月13日 星期五

IELTS

How to prepare IELTS exam? Many people who got the high band of IELTS told me that it's not a good idea to read the article from the first line of the paragraph. First, you have to see the title or the headline, look for if any illustations are contained in the reading and guess what is going on in following content. Second, begin to read the first paragraph by skimmimg and skip the words you understand. (It means that you don't need to know the meaning of every words). (Learning Strategies Training). Then, you have to guess and predict the main idea of next paraprapg after finishing the first paragraph. Anyway, I realize this learning method is correspond to the methodology of "advanced organization"(Learning Strategies Training).

2009年2月11日 星期三

嚴師出高徒

The excellent students who come from taking a little dose of tough love. I didn't agree this statement totally before until having some teaching experiences. I found the students of Kid Castle whose English abilities are better than another cram school. Not because their intellect are better than others, but their teacher treats them are stricter. The teacher has to take the responsibility of the teaching to the supervisors. Based on this pressure and policy, the teachers of Kid Castle ask their students more than another cram school which the instructors’ demands are much lax of assignment of reciting English texts.

The teacher’s standard of English learning process is also affected students’ learning attitudes which lead them have the different learning results. Students head on you in order to take the check-out of assignments without well-prepared. The worse is, they don’t care this learning attitude because they know the teacher will give them cues when they encounter trouble spots and will allow them to pass the verification loosely.