English Teaching Methodologies 2009 Blog

English Teaching Methodologies Class Blog at a Japanese University

Reading Strengths and Weaknesses (aroma)

7 月 29th, 2009 by aroma in Reading Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

My reading strength is maybe rhythm.I read slowly in order to understand the students the contents.But one reason,I couldn’t read quickly, so I did that.

My reading weakness is pronunciation. I was advised the connection of each words.Also, I must speak English without Katakana English.I try to listen every day. 

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Reading Strengths and Weaknesses (ukey)

7 月 28th, 2009 by ukey88 in Reading Aloud Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

My reading strength is “stress” . I always check stress when I don’t know word’s stress.

My reading weakness is “rhythm”. When I read something I concentrate reading each words, so I can’t have on my mind for rhythm.

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Reading Strengths and Weaknesses (Mizuho)

7 月 28th, 2009 by Mizuho in Reading Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

My reading strength is “Expressions”. I changed voice when I read line.

My reading weakness is “rhythm”. When there was the word that I didn’t  understand, it stopped to read.

And my voice was low.

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Reading Strengths and Weaknesses (madan)

7 月 28th, 2009 by madan in Reading Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

My reading strenth is “stress”. When I learn new words, I always confirm the phonetic sign to speak corectly.

My reading weakness is “rhythm”.When I read English, I read each words,so my reading is not fluent and rhythmical. I ‘ll try to read English based on the unity of meaning.

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Reading Strengths and Weaknesses (reddemon)

7 月 27th, 2009 by reddemon in Reading Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

My reading strength is ‘Stress’. I always try to speak appropriate stress. It’ll be useful when I teach stdents  stress of English words.

My reading weakness is ‘Pronunciation’. My voice is low,so it may be hard for people to listen to me. To improve this, I should try to speak higher to enable them to listen easier.

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Reading Strengths and Weaknesses

7 月 24th, 2009 by superj in Reading Strengths and Weaknesses · コメントはまだありません

日本語を読みながら、多分僕の短所はリズムだと思います。時々言葉が多いですから、読みにくくなります。リズムを上達するために、もっと読む練習をして、日本語の単語を覚えなければならないと思います。

僕の長所は僕の日本語の発音だと思います。読めると、よく分からなくても、僕の発音が良いなら、皆が分かると思います。

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Overcomming problems wiwh group work(sayahh)

6 月 23rd, 2009 by sayahh in Overcoming problems with group work · コメントはまだありません

  • Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much

      Teacher have to decide some rules.(For example ,”You have to speak more than 5 sentence”) And  take a thinking time to prepare what they speak.   

  • Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy

Teacher walk around in the classroom,and ask easy question to the group.

  • Students use Japanese

Teacher tell how to say  in English(student may don`t know how to say. )

  • Students do not challenge themselves

 If the activity is to difficult fou students,teacher explain simply and show how to do.

  • The teacher cannot correct learner mistakes

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Overcoming problems with group work(Lucy)

6 月 21st, 2009 by yuyuyu in Overcoming problems with group work · コメントはまだありません

Group works management is difficult

When students do group works, they listen to ideas of all group members and write down on their worksheets. Teachers sometimes attend group works.

 

Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy

Teachers don’t give students free time in class. So, students do something like reading, writing, discussing. I think it is good to note ideas of other people while students listen to presentations, and submit it.  

Students use Japanese

English game(competition among groups, the rule is using only English)

Praising students for using English.

 

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Overcoming problems with group work (3i0n)

6 月 18th, 2009 by 3i0n in Overcoming problems with group work · コメントはまだありません

 ・Cannot correct mistakes

 In group work,  it’s difficult for teacher to look over whole class because group work is class for raising students’ subjective attitude. So teacher has to walk around the classroom. 

・Students use Japanese

 I thought it is good to set levels of using English which is kind of last class we had. Students hate compulsion like being said “You should~.” “You have to~.”  of course “You should speak only English.”. Japanese are very shy and afraid of speaking wrong English. So setting level is good way.

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overcoming problems with group work (walnuts)

6 月 17th, 2009 by walnuts in Overcoming problems with group work · コメントはまだありません

・Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much .

→The teacher can put a ledear per a group. Before activities, the teacher holds a small meeting with leaders and talk about a next activity.  Then, the teacher ask them to try to ask students who don’t speak so much in the activity.

・Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy .

→It is important not to spend much time for one activity, because students might be bored. So, the teacher can fix a time limit for activities.

・The teacher cannot correct learner mistakes .

→The teacher should walk around a classroom during the activity, and watch and listen to students’ activities carefully.

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