TESOL 初级Assignments 2018.4

Class: TESOL for children programme Date: 04.20.2018

Assignment 1-5

1. Which age group would you like to teach the most and why? ● High School Age Development(14-17)1

I want to teach students about subjects like economics, statistics and business-related courses. The students who age at this period have already learned English for 6-10 years, which makes the verbal-based instructions and lectures easier understood by students. Teachers who would like to give lectures about more abstract concepts which requires students the higher perception and English skills. Students meet requirement with enough English reading and writing skills can take subjects like economics, history and mathematics.

● Describe the characteristics of your 3 most influential teachers

throughout childhood.

1. piano teacher Gao：She always asked me training daily and she

was very serious about the weekly progress I made after the last course she had given. Keep playing piano for 8 years everyday influences me a lot. Gao was not a teacher with mild personality, and she was always demanding in my memory. 2. Host training teacher Wei: He is the most talented teacher I had

ever met. He did not talk concepts much during our one-to-one course. I recited the poem over and over, and he gave feedback about every word and tone. We concentrated on the feedback and made adjustments on one piece of poem again and again. He told me if I want to get the China Teenager Host Award I just needed to mimic his version of recite. There was rules for appreciation of speech sounds, but it was unnecessary

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to understand. To learn pronunciation, the only thing you need is trying your best to mimic.

3. Math teacher Zhou when I was in primary school：I did not

perform pretty well in academics after I transferred to another school when I was 10. Mrs. Zhou was my math teacher in the new school，she always encouraged me and thought I was a talented student on math. I then to start to have a faith in me that I actually could be excel at studying. This faith rooted in me during my whole student period——I then really became good at math and I even chose Finance as my college major.

What are the acronyms for TESOL，SLA，L1 and L2? ● TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ● SLA: the second language acquisition ● L1: native tongue（first language） ● L2: a new/second language2

2. What is “telegraphic speech”?

According to linguistics and psychology， Telegraphic Speech is the speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children. It has the feature of concise, direct and precise.

3. Name five different type of gross motor skills not mentioned in the text. Do the same for fine motor skills.

● gross motor: throwing, catching, kicking, squating, waggling arms,

jumping, running, walking

● fine motor: shaking hands, blinking, twisting, nodding, shaking heads,

fingers posture, stamping feet, shrugging shoulder

4. Which type of music and movies would you like to introduce to children of other cultures? Why? 2 TESOL for Children Certificate，2018，Page4

I would introduce the cartoon movies and folk music to children. The cartoons are with positive attitude and value, which is good for shaping the value of kids. The folk music are made with simple words and contains the native culture, which is good for children to learn the culture and memory the L2 words.

5. Name and describe one exercise that can be utilized for learning English involving Science，Math, and Social Studies separately.( The answer should contain three different exercise.

● Science：running is a good exercise for students to learn the

relationship among distance, time used and the speed. The formula among these three factors could be abstract for students in class, let them run in different speed within the same distance and record the data is a good way to learn(physics).

● Math：table tennis can be utilized for learning English and geometry.

If you want to get score, you need to calculate the relationship between the ball you want to strike and the white ball. Students need to speak out the color and the angle after he/she strikes the ball. ● Social Studies：playing soccer can be really good exercise for social

studies，as this sport has changing rules in different countries and period of history. Moreover, students could learn vocabularies about the verb when playing soccer and interact with team members, which involves in many knowledge about team management and teamwork cooperation.

Assignment 6-8

6. Name 10 vocabulary words that you think are appropriate for each of the language development stages. (How would you introduce them to the student for learning?)

? Early Childhood Development (age 5)

Vocabulary: I，me，her，she，he，him（subject）| eat，drink，play，like，do（verb） I would

Explain these words use body languages, such as pointing out myself and speak out the word”I”and “me”， then use “like” to form sentences to help kids figure out the relationship between the subjects and objective.

? Elementary Age Development（ages 6-9）

Vocabulary：more verbs—— jump，run，sit，stand，study | more easy nouns—— homework，food | a little of adjectives——happy，angry，anxious，color

Verbs：I would teach kids about verbs by movements

Nouns：I would take the items and show them to kids with spelling the letters and pronouncing the vocabularies to them

Adjectives: I would use face expressions to teach kids about the words expressing emotion | the colorful flashcards exchange game to teach them the color-series words.

? Junior High Age Development(ages 10-13)

Vocabulary：adverb——highly，slowly | comparative adjectives：easier，faster | preposition：at，with，on，in，about | nouns about direction and position: south, west, east, north ; left, right, front, behind I would teach the kids about direction and position words and relevant prepositions by the combination of the change of position between me and another students； and I would drop a piece of feather and a ball from the table to show them what do “slower””faster”mean ? High School Age Development (ages 14-17)

Vocabulary：complex adjectives : extraordinary，incredible，dissatisfied | clause introducer：which，where，while | longer words：economics，administration，execution，crimination

I would teach children in this age by explaining the meaning and creating sentence including these vocabularies to them.

7. What is “comprehensible input”? What is“comprehensible output”？How are they similar? How are they different？

? According to the theory generated by Stephen Krashen,

“comprehensible input” is an “intaking” second-language-learning process, in which the learner acquire the language a bit more difficult

than he/she could handle at the current level(Krashen，1985 page103). “Comprehensible Output”is the theory created by Merrill K. Swain and Sharon Lapkin according to the theory of comprehensible input. It means that“we can only understand that which is paralinguistically comprehend,（TESOL Examination Syllabus，2018）” ? The

differences

and

between CO

is

Comprehensible more

about

Input(CI) writing

and and

Comprehensible Output(CO) is that CI is more about reading and listening,

speaking(talking/communicating which engages other S2 speakers in a conversation)

8. Are children of bilingual households at disadvantage？Why or why not? ? I think children of bilingual house holds are at advantages to learn

multiple languages. According to the concept “common underlying proficiency“ mentioned by Jim Cummins, two languages learning process involves the same part of the brain, and the different words in two language systems are stored in the same memory area of a kid, which means children living in the bilingual environment could have advantages of learning two different languages within a same time.3

Assignments 9-11

9. What intelligence type are you？Describe your intelligence type and tell how it can contribute to being an effective teacher？ ? I got: Logical-mathematical Intelligence4

The logical-mathematical Intelligence are good at reasoning, recognizing patterns and logically analyze problems.“ These individuals tend to think conceptually about numbers，relationships， and patterns”Because people who have advantages in logical-mathematical intelligence are good at problem-solving, thinking about

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