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English Education Jan.20

     Today, we learned about content-based language education. Many people are learning English, but in fact, most of them are not good at speaking and writing. Because of it, people focus on content-based language education. A recent book on content-based language teaching is "Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching" by Patsy M. Lightbrown. Recently, CLIL is one of the popular type of content-based language learning. In Canada, "Immersion Education" is popular now. There are three important principles of modern immersion education; Comprehensible input, Structured and extended output, and focus on form.
     At PUK, there are project which connects with content-based language learning. That is "Intensive English". Also, Japan Studies is associated with immersion.

English Education Dec.23

     Today, we learned about how we can improve our English skills such as listening, reading, writing and speaking. If we want to improve vocabulary, it is effective to do extensive reading, vocabulary notebook, English Central and so on. Also, We did activities as previous class today. We found a partner and did "elicited imitation". It was a little bit difficult, but so fun. We had to imitate 5 sentences, and I did four sentences well. Maybe I'm good at elicited  imitation!!!hahaha Actually, I'm not good at listening to English, so I think this activity helps me to improve my listening skill. I'll keep doing it when I have a free time.

English Education Dec.16

     Today, we learned about working memory, dictation, shadowing and so on. Also, it was first time to know about Alan Baddeley who works at University of York.
     At first, I write about working memory. There are four components of working memory, central executive, visual sketchpad, episodic buffer, and phonological loop.
     Also, we did some activities today. We found a partner and tried "working memory task". It was so interesting, and I thought that it is so effective method to improve our English memory. I think it is not so difficult and don't need anything, so we can enjoy it whenever!!!!

English Education Dec.9

     We learned about CLT, ACCESS and TBLT today. It was a little bit hard for me to understand them, but I write what I understand through today's class on this blog.
     The first one is CLT. CLT stands for Communicative Language Teaching, and it started from the 1970s. However, CLT has some problems. For example, teacher don't really know what CLT means, or teachers don't have the skill and technique to teach communicatively.   
     The second one is ACCESS. It stands for Automatization in Communicative Contexts of Essential Speech Segments. Its main tasks are genuinely communicative, Inherently repetitive, and functionally formulaic. (In fact, I couldn't understand it well........)
     The third one is TBLT. It stands for Task-based Language teaching. It was launched by N.S. Prabhu in 1987. He suggests that it is more motivating for young people to learn a new language while working together on some kind of task. Also, there are seven types of task. 
     I couldn't understand well today.....,so I want to ask my teacher about them again!

English Education Nov.18

     It was the first time to take the class by Lavin teacher. We went to the library and I tried to find a book about mobile learning. According to the book, we can learn how to use mobile devices for teaching and learning language and literacy through the book. Therefore, we can also learn how they have been changing during development of hardware or software. Also, Lavin teacher talked about an important book whose name is "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LINGUISTICS". I want to know about them more and more through his class, and use them when I teach English to someone.

English Education Jan.20

     Today, we learned about content-based language education. Many people are learning English, but in fact, most of them are not good at s...