I have learned a whole of new and useful techniques that I believe that I can put into practice in the classroom when I teach english in japan on the 20th of April 2012...
I am pleased to have this opportunity to think about my motivation for doing this course, what I have gained from the experience and what I have learned...
By taking this course, I’ve learned so much about the grammar aspect of teaching english, the methods/techniques used in class, and how to write a lesson plan...
• What I have learned from this course; well for one thing there is a lot more to the english language that I ever remember being taught in school!
• I have gained insight into the dynamics of learning a new language from varying degrees of existing knowledge bases...
I feel very comfortable in front of a class or audience but this course has taught me exactly what ESL students need and how their needs differ from those of english speaking students...
Being a native english speaker, I assumed, quite inaccurately I might add, that the course would be a revision of what I learnt (or thought I learnt) in school...
I have reviewed the parts of speech (I learned them well in college but great to have to study them again, I have always liked english studies) but also have learned more details of present , past and future tenses; and new items such as Conditional and Reported Speech plus Passive voice and other grammar items...
Personally, before starting this course I had already taught english for some years and over these years I have experimented and found some solutions about how to cope with many different situations and problems...