TESOL 初级Assignments 4.docx

1、TESOL 初级Assignments 4Class: TESOL for children programmeDate: 04.20.2018Assignment 1-51.Which age group would you like to teach the most and why?High School Age Development(14-17)I want to teach students about subjects like economics, statistics and business-related courses. The students who age at

2、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 require

3、ment 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 progre

4、ss 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 muc

5、h 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

6、 recite. There was rules for appreciation of speech sounds, but it was unnecessary 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 sc

7、hool 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 periodI then really became good

8、 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 LanguagesSLA: the second language acquisitionL1: native tongue（first language）L2: a new/second language2.What is “telegraphic speech”?According to linguist

9、ics 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, ca

10、tching, kicking, squating, waggling arms, jumping, running, walking fine motor: shaking hands, blinking, twisting, nodding, shaking heads, fingers posture, stamping feet, shrugging shoulder4.Which type of music and movies would you like to introduce to children of other cultures? Why?I would introdu

11、ce 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

12、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 formul

13、a 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 r

14、elationship 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 hist

15、ory. 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 6-86.Name 10 vocabulary words that you think are appropriate for each of the language develop

16、ment 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 “li

17、ke” 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 adjectiveshappy，angry，anxious，colorVerbs：I would teach kids about verbs b

18、y movementsNouns：I would take the items and show them to kids with spelling the letters and pronouncing the vocabularies to themAdjectives: 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.Junio

19、r High Age Development(ages 10-13)Vocabulary：adverbhighly，slowly | comparative adjectives：easier，faster | preposition：at，with，on，in，about | nouns about direction and position: south, west, east, north ; left, right, front, behindI would teach the kids about direction and position words and relevant

20、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”meanHigh School Age Development (ages 14-17)Vocabulary：complex adjectives : extraordinary，incredible，dissatisfi

21、ed | clause introducer：which，where，while | longer words：economics，administration，execution，criminationI 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

22、 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). “Compre

23、hensible 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 between Comprehensible Input(CI) and Compreh

24、ensible Output(CO) is that CI is more about reading and listening, and CO is more about writing and 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

25、 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 chi

26、ldren living in the bilingual environment could have advantages of learning two different languages within a same time.Assignments 9-119.What intelligence type are you？Describe your intelligence type and tell how it can contribute to being an effective teacher？I got: Logical-mathematical Intelligenc

27、eThe 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-solvi

28、ng, thinking about abstract ideas and solving complex computation, he/she would be good at teaching math/business-related courses to high school students. As either math or economics requires teachers the ability of teaching to explain abstract concepts and formula to students with brief and logical

29、 language，a teacher with strengths in logical-mathematical intelligence would enable him/her being an effective teacher.10.Describe a classroom activity for each of the intelligence types.Visual/Spatial LearnersThe teacher show the picture and let the students to speak out the words. And the fastest

30、 student who recognizes the vocabulary would gain some award.Verbal/Linguistic LearnersAsk students preparing words and research the source for a specific topic. Then divide the students in two group to debate with each other in class.Mathematical/Logical LearnersLet students to do the ligature game

31、：divide students into two group and give each group a dice，let each group member throws the dice randomly in one round， then ask them to do the arithmetic with speed competition.Bodily/Kinesthetic LearnersOne student to pick up a piece of paper from the box with the instruction, the rest of the stud

32、ents try their fast to speak out the verb/activity on the tape.Interpersonal LearnerLet every two of students to form a little group to practice conversation then let them stand in front in class group one by one, after all of students finish talking, the teacher give the feedback of each group and indicate the best group in which the students have better understanding of sentences and words than the other groups.Intrapersonal LearnerFind proper topic for writing an essay in a class，through which students could use dictionary