we have learnt about motivation and reward in learning process. In my opinion, I think that having our own motivation is the most important thing for learning as well as teaching.
Having specific motivation helps learners to concentrate on their studying and it also encourage them to do not give up their purpose. In my case, when I was in NewZealand for studying, I had a hard time to study IELS which is test to enter the national university among students. Because my agency manager recommended it to me, I just chose to be in that course without any exact motivation. Every students was in this course so as to acheiving their own purpose unlike me, so it was so difficult to continue to study IELS. I used to think of dropping out of that course. However, I changed my mind and I decided to have my own goal. It was getting more than 6.5 score in real IELS exam. After having decision, I did my best in this course and I finally got a good score in test. Thanks to this experience, I always make my students have their own motivation. When I met them at the first time, I asked them what their reason for studying English is. But, no one answered about that question and even one student said to me that he just wanted to get a good mark in school exam. I was disappointed about their behavior. However, most of korean students might be same as them. If they do not have their own motivation, they will feel bored in term of studying English.
In conclusion, I always would like to try to have a specific motivation in every task as a learner and I am going to help my students have their own goal as a teacher as well.
2. Choose one aspect of something we've covered in this course and describe in some detail how you would apply that to a future lesson?
we also have learnt about various learing styles in learing process. Accoridng to this theory, every people has their own learning style depending on their innate talents such as visual learner and kinesthetic learner. It is very interesting to me, so I would like to apply this for my students in the future.
At first, the most important thing is that I have to find which learing style for each student fits. I think that it is quite difficult thing, so it is also useful to make test paper in order to finding learning style such as IQ and EQ. Nowadays, every people find out their own IQ and EQ ability easily. I hope that test for finding learning style will be made soon. However, I would replace it to have a aptitude test for students. By result of this test, I could decide their learning style. For example, if one student is good at sports, he might be kinethetic learner. Also, if another one is interested in playing instrumemt, he could be aural learner.
After deciding their learing style, I would seperate my students and make several classes depending on their learing style. And then, I will teach English for them relying on each classes. For instance, for verbal learner class, I will focus on teaching a writing and reading a book. Also, for kinethetic class, I will lead them to instruct English with sports activities instend of studying in classroom.
I think that this teaching method is a kind of revolution. However, I would say that this way will help students enjoy studying English and they will not feel tedious during class. If I have my own English school, I would like to make various classes depeding on learning style and also I want to allocate professonal teachers each class.
3. Which topics or methods are you interested in learing more about during the second half of the certificate program?
I am very interested in how students in another countries acquire their second language and what the most common learing methods for them is.
When I was in NewZealand, there were many students from all over the world at my language school. I was very surprised about their English skill. Although they were lower intermediate level, their speaking skill was like a native speaker. My level was intermediate, but their communication skill was better than me. How come? Maybe, most of korean students was same as me.
On the other hand, even though they were good at speaking, their grammar and writing was worse than me. They always made grammar error when they were doing writing task. However, their acquisition skill was better than me, too. We had a level test once a month, they used to go up their level easier than me. It is still curious thing to me.
In my opinion, foreign students have another certain method unlike korean. In korea, most teachers concentrate on behaviorism teaching method, so we are forced to memorize every tasks and we cannot lead our class by ourselves. In contrast, foreign students used to lead their class freely and they always have a confidence when they was speaking. I really wonder what makes them like that?
