I find the information from About.com this week provides me with a basic introduction to the field of ESL teaching. Learning some of the commonly used abbreviations is highly useful if I am to pursue the career path in teaching English.
The advice included in the Basic Theory 1 about acquiring references for English grammar usages is highly valuable for me. At times, I find myself struggling to explain to my friends, non-native English speakers, why certain word forms or grammar rules are applied in particular circumstances. Now I can fall back onto the two books recommended by About.com in order to equip myself with explanations of English grammar rules.
What a wakeup call it is to learn that the best way to teach a language is to Keep It Simple! I was rather disinterested when I first started attending university for most of the ‘academic words’ that my lecturers used were so complicated and foreign to me but when they began to explain them in simple or plain English, my brain suddenly discovered a secret compartment and registered all these new and difficult terminologies in the system!
And talk about creating confusions for the students, I myself despise lecturers skipping from one topic to another within the time span of half a minute; imagine what this situation will be like for non-native speakers when learning a new language?
Lastly, in this week’s introduction on the Basic Theory 2, it seems to me that it is an extremely practical blueprint for the design or building of an English lesson. Since I have been using English for so many years, I am not at all aware that it involves so much effort and time for a non-native speaker to thoroughly understand and use newly learned linguistic functions; six repetitions later they are still like water off a duck’s back!
I am looking forward to the email from About.com for the 2nd Week and see what interesting aspects that I can learn from them
Albie ^_^
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