I’ve learned many things this term. For example, free reading, personality, input or output, instinct to acquire language and other topics. I got a lot of information from books and classes. As a result, I was inspired and my learning style changed. In this essay, I explain that two reasons why my learning style changed and new strategies that I want to try in future. Firstly, I started getting more input than before because one book said that many English learners don’t have enough input. In this case, input means reading and listening. When I was a high school student, teachers always said “You should read text books again and again”. Despite that, these text books were very boring for me, so I avoided reading it. In addition, most of the
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However, I realized that it’s important for learners to receive large amount of input after I read books about linguistics. Moreover, one researcher said that comic books and magazines which written in second language will become the reason to read good books because comic books and magazines are strongly associated with our interesting. This is closely related to free voluntary reading. So I started reading my favorite Japanese comic in English and listening a lot of Western music, and I keep trying to do it even now. I also studied about importance of output. I feel that my seminar every week on Friday is very good opportunities to do output because I give a presentation every time, and students ask some questions or comment in English. However, I thought that the amount of output isn’t enough, so I went to English Learning Communication Space (ELCS) at new building of this …show more content…
I learned about Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). When we consider the rapid language progress, we’re likely thinking of children’s ability to communicate in normal conversation. It is a different type of language ability that the kind of needed to do well in school. This means that we can’t communicate sufficiently if we rely on instructions in a school. I tended to think the reason why I wasn’t able to communicate fluently even though I’ve studied English since I was a junior high school student. However, now I know that it was quite natural for Japanese. In addition to this, I didn’t have much chances to communicate with native English speakers, so I was afraid of speaking English in front of them because I worried if they cannot understand what I say and they feel uncomfortable. However, I noticed most native speakers don’t care about learners’ mistakes, and they understand we’re Japanese. One study show that English as Second Language (ESL) students were caught between silent and possible humiliation, because they feared being laughed at for their English. I was just like them, but I’m not what I
However, I realized that it’s important for learners to receive large amount of input after I read books about linguistics. Moreover, one researcher said that comic books and magazines which written in second language will become the reason to read good books because comic books and magazines are strongly associated with our interesting. This is closely related to free voluntary reading. So I started reading my favorite Japanese comic in English and listening a lot of Western music, and I keep trying to do it even now. I also studied about importance of output. I feel that my seminar every week on Friday is very good opportunities to do output because I give a presentation every time, and students ask some questions or comment in English. However, I thought that the amount of output isn’t enough, so I went to English Learning Communication Space (ELCS) at new building of this …show more content…
I learned about Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). When we consider the rapid language progress, we’re likely thinking of children’s ability to communicate in normal conversation. It is a different type of language ability that the kind of needed to do well in school. This means that we can’t communicate sufficiently if we rely on instructions in a school. I tended to think the reason why I wasn’t able to communicate fluently even though I’ve studied English since I was a junior high school student. However, now I know that it was quite natural for Japanese. In addition to this, I didn’t have much chances to communicate with native English speakers, so I was afraid of speaking English in front of them because I worried if they cannot understand what I say and they feel uncomfortable. However, I noticed most native speakers don’t care about learners’ mistakes, and they understand we’re Japanese. One study show that English as Second Language (ESL) students were caught between silent and possible humiliation, because they feared being laughed at for their English. I was just like them, but I’m not what I