Language Learning /Teaching
Leaning language and becoming a language teacher can be a daunting task because it requires one to dedicate more time to read intensively. Both learners and language teachers should have adequate information to enable them to communicate fluently. This essay discusses, describes, and reflects on ways I will continue developing my language learning, develop my language and my teaching skills when I become a language educator.
How to Develop my Own Language Learning
Developing language learning requires one to be disciplined to be able to learn and attain competency. Therefore, the most important tools for language learning are writing implements such as pen and a notebook. The tools can not only be used to take
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The sole goal of learning a language is to achieve proficiency and communicative competence as they are primary skills in good communication. Achieving language skills requires a learner to grasp the basic language phonology, which includes listening, reading, writing, speaking. One can learn listening skills by carefully listening and analyzing with the view of discovering contrastive sounds of language and their variants (Molnar & Sebastian-Galles, 2014). A learner then practices and uses discriminative exercises to help them distinguish sounds, tones, and intonation patterns. In this case, the learner can then use selective attention to contrastive sounds that are difficult to grasp and use auditory repression, which involves recording troublesome sounds and replaying them until one becomes conversant with …show more content…
Furthermore, various drills can be used to focus on sounds that are difficult to master. After that, learners may take articulatory phonetics to help them understand the speech mechanism and ways it would work. To master reading skills, learners need to employ the strategy of memorization and association whereby they set goals of learning a particular number of related characters every day. Besides, learners can read older texts and expand the kind of texts they read to including the ones written in earlier times. Finally, in reference to developing writing skills, a language learner needs to achieve good control of spellings, punctuation, and alphanumerical symbol. On developing writing skills a learner has a variety of ways to improve the skill. They can employ online communities and social networks where they can write content to be evaluated by other online friends and tutors (Stepanek & Hradilova, 2013). Using this method can help a learner to improve a great deal because of diverse opinions and suggestions from diverse people. Moreover, learners can ask their language associate to check their work for errors after they have thoroughly checked it.
Develop your Teaching Skills when you become a Language Teacher
To be a good language teacher, one needs to have confidence. Confidence plays a vital role in the performance of a language teacher. Teachers can advance
In the article “Becoming a Native Listener” written by Janet F. Werker, describes that infants learn to discriminate sounds of their native tongue at an incredibly young age. The author provides a few studies to show how young infants are able to discriminate against sounds of their own language better than adults. This article was interesting because it shows how infants can identify more categories of speech sounds or phonemes. Babies can discriminate many sounds in all human languages and this shows that at an extremely young age, children are truly special at this age. Even though they can differentiate these sounds when they are newborns, as they get older, they can only recognize the sounds in their native language.
Despite the difficulty of ESL 011, many students take this class because it is an important course. For me, ESL 011 is a challenging class. I have learned and practiced many things, but there are three things I would change about my ESL 011 experience. The first one is the seven-week terms. I would say that the seven-week terms are challenging for students, particularly getting to know the course content within such a short period of time. ESL 011 is academic writing, and it is different from other kinds of writing. In addition, ESL 011 covers paragraph development, such as developing the main idea and supporting information, so students learn how to develop their college writing. In this short time, learners must do a lot of work including
“Language learning is a process of developing new resources for meaning-making, and language learners need opportunities for participation in meaningful activities and interaction supported by consciousness-raising and explicit attention to language itself in all its complexity and variability” (Schleppegrell, 2013.
racie Allen of the comedy team of Burns and Allen was once asked how one should speak French. She replied, “Well, you speak it the same way you speak English; you just use different words.” When trying to assist in instructing English language learners, they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master, as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned in our classroom instruction, such as lesson preparation, building background, and comprehensible input, we can indeed teach our future English language learners all the right moves with all the right words.
Language Development When it comes to the effects of gender on language development, one of the most frequently asked questions is: do males and females develop language differently? Studies have shown both similarities and differences between male and female language development. Apel and Masterson (2001) explain that both genders acquire language skills along the same timeline and that both become active, engaging conversationalists. Although research has shown both similarities and differences in language development, pertaining to gender, a major influencing factor has come from parents. Observations have shown that during the different stages of language development, parents tend to use different types of language with males than with females, which continually affect an individual throughout his or her entire life.
The purpose of this assignment is to explain the impact of English language learners in the classroom. As a foreign student, English language learner in the United States faces multiple challenges for achieving academic success. To successfully complete a task, they need to master both English as a language and how it is used in core content classes especially when they are an adult. When trying to assist in instructing English language learners, they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master, as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned in our classroom instruction, such as lesson preparation,
Teachers’ should not be held accountable if the students doesn’t succeed in learning a new language, because ELL students’ success comes also from good behavior and social emotional skills that are developed at home. (Winsler, Kim and Richard 2014) describe that the child’s skill and fluency in the first language-spoken can be an important factor in successful second language acquisition because they use aspects
After reading the essay On Writing by Stephen King, it was apparent that improving writing skills is important. The beginning to forming a better career is to first read because “one learns most clearly what not to do by reading bad prose”. (King) Improving writing skills can further improve verbal communication skills and help to advance in life. When someone improves their writing skills, they can then improve their verbal communication skills. Improving both verbal and written communication skills will lead to a better career path.
Students’ background will determine as well the abilities of students, parents’ level of education and origin will enhance students’ language skills or will limit them; once the students arrive at school if the teacher promotes the interaction within children through lesson activities that target the competence of language, students learn from other students. If the cultural diversity is promoted in the classroom by the educator, all the students’ cultures will be linked to the curriculum, and the language development plus a cultural enrichment will diminish the opportunity for students to fall
All the people have an inquisitiveness to discover and learn different knowledge and experiences; we all have this ability to acquire knowledge and experiences through study, experience, or by being taught from the first day we born. As we grow up we have the neediness to be able to communicate with the others; consequently, we begin to develop the skills to talk catching all the words we hear around us that are important to the development of literacy. With time we are old enough to attend school, which is the place where we improve all our cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and math, but not all the people have the same know-how or capability to acquire this knowledge. In my personal experience the buildup and development of my literacy
Consequently, usually around the sixth month, the infant begins to babble. A large variety of sounds are produced in this period, many of them do not considered occur in the language of the household. During this period, children are learning to distinguish between the sound that are part of their language, and the one which does not. In the stage of babbling, children are learnt to maintain the correct sounds and suppressed the one which are incorrect.
How do children acquire language? What are the processes of language acquisition? How do infants respond to speech? Language acquisition is the process of learning a native or a second language. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observations that children copy what they hear and the inference that human beings have a natural aptitude for understanding grammar. Children usually learn the sounds and vocabulary of their native language through imitation, (which helps them learn to pronounce words correctly), and grammar is seldom taught to them, but instead that they rapidly acquire the ability to speak grammatically. Though, not all children learn by imitation alone. Children will produce forms of language that adults never say. For example, “I spilled milk on hisself” or “Debbie wants a cookie”. This demonstrates that children have the desire to speak correctly and have self-motivating traits to communicate. This supports the theory of Noam Chomsky (1972)-that children are able to learn grammar of a particular language because all intelligible languages are founded on a deep structure of universal grammatical rules that corresponds to an innate capacity of the human brain. Adults learning a second language pass through some of the same stages, as do children learning their native language. In the first part of this paper I will describe the process of language acquisition. The second part will review how infants respond to speech.
Good reading skills are very important in learning languages. Reading improves spelling because as students learn to sound out letters and words, spelling comes easier. It helps to expand the vocabulary, since the best way to acquire a large vocabulary is to read. Students learn new words as they read and put them in their mind for later use. . They also unconsciously absorb the information about things like how to structure the sentences, how words are used in different contexts, and it gives a better understanding of the word usage and definitions than the cold facts of a dictionary. It improves a person’s vocabulary and knowledge without the person even knowing it. Even if students do not understand every word, they will hear new sounds, words and phrases which they can then try out, copying what they have heard. They can comprehend ideas, follow arguments and detect implications. Reading texts also provide good models for English writing. Krashen (2004) found that reading is extremely important in learning English, since it is the only way to “become a good reader, develop a good writing style, an adequate vocabulary, advanced grammar” and the only way to “become a good speller”.
In most institutions of learning today, the classes are made up of students from different ethnic backgrounds. These have different traditions and also speak different languages. In a typical classroom, the majority of the students will speak the same language. The teacher must then employ strategies which will accommodate all the students in the class. This will ensure that every learner gets the best quality of education. This will enable them to be better prepared for career and expressing themselves. In this paper, strategies to assist learners of the English language in their literal development for third grade learners. In the paper, three strategies that can be used by the teacher will be discussed. New strategies and research that will help the English language learners to gain in depth mastery of the language will also be discussed. Due to the widespread learning of the English language in most schools, addressing issues of the language learners is of vital importance. Teachers should have the understanding that cultures are what give someone identity and therefore no student should leave their culture for another. Instead, there should be the blending of different cultures so that students can appreciate and learn from each other.
Obviously, the most recent focus in education has been reading, and naturally, a language arts teacher must focus on reading in order to help her students develop into well-rounded communicators. Learning to implement new ways of tea...