2021年2月1日月曜日

SLA Junior Seminar 2-13: The Chrysalids

 In Waknuk, children must be perfect. It is wrong to be different!

    David always dreams of a city he has never seen before. Since he lives in Waknuk, it is best for him not to stand out. When he was 10, he met a girl called Sophie. They play together until Sophie's shoe gets stuck between two rocks. However, Sophie refuses to take off her shoe because her toes are different from others. David knows her secret by chance, but he never tells anyone. According to the belief in his region, people must be perfect. This belief is based on the idea that man is the image of God and should have a head, a body, two legs, two arms, ten fingers, and ten toes. Therefore, anyone who doesn't match the condition of God would be punished. David knows it well but his life becomes dangerous after that. 



2021年1月31日日曜日

SLA Junior Seminar 2-12: Hamlet

 When a ghostly figure appears to Prince Hamlet, he discovers the dreadful truth about his father's death. 


     Hamlet of Shakespear is a classical representative work. Prince Hamlet is a fictional character in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, son of the previous King of Denmark. Hamlet doesn't trust the new King as he meets the Ghost of his father who was poisoned by King Claudius. His father wants Hamlet to be brave and kill the King for him. In terms of that, Hamlet makes up his mind to kill his uncle. Since Hamlet worries that they may kill him so he pretends to be crazy while revenging the killing of the King. Can Hamlet succeed in revenging?




 

SLA Junior Seminar 2-11: Nicholas Nickleby

 After his father's death, Nicholas has no money, no job and a family to support. 

    


     Nicholas Nickleby, an 18-year-old son, is left to take care of his mother and his sister Kate after his father's death. His father left them no money so Nicholas sought help from his uncle Ralph, a cold-hearted moneylender. Nicholas was sent away to Dotheboys Hall to teach. However, his heart was filled with pity for children who suffered cruel treatment by evil Squeers. Then Nicholas made a decision to leave the school immediately with Smike who become his close companion. Nicholas did not know how to come back to London. Meanwhile, he only had a little money. Can Nicholas find a new job in London, or will he become happy with his family?

2021年1月27日水曜日

英語教育講義⑮

        In the final class, we did a quick review of what we have learned in the last half semester. Then we were divided into several groups to discuss which was the most impressive section for each other. Actually I have got interested in the last section which was about CALL. Blog is familiar to most English major students at PUK. Blog can be informative, personal or academic. It is a good way to get much better at writing in English. Through blogging, we could practice using words and grammar properly. Furthermore, it allows us to blowers other's blogs to learn new vocabulary or ideas. Therefore, a blog is a place to practice your written English so we should work on it continuously. 




英語教育講義⑭

        Today's class was about one of the methods of teaching which was CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). In the early days, the computer plays the role of tutor so that students can study alone. Afterward, computers are regarded as a tool since several softwares are used quite often such as PowerPoint, and Word. There are some more benefits for students to use the computer to study. For instance, they could notice the mistakes by themselves while finding the error from other student's essays. There is another example is that the strategy of teachers how to improve the overall performance. It is different for teachers who need to control the whole class. In terms of that, they let the students who are good at speaking English to assist the teacher. It is a good way to make a group have a presentation. As a result, students could improve their level of English ability in a short-term period. From my point of view, I think these are effective ways to help learners to obtain English skills. 




2020年12月30日水曜日

英語教育講義⑬

    A good teacher helps students' language skills by pushing beyond their interlanguage so that they could improve their language. To think about the situation in Japan, teachers spend a lot of time in teaching language. In this way, they don't have enough tie to the content using English. If they do so, students could have comprehensible English. On the other hand, students in Canada have more chances to notice and practice English. 

    To ensure students understand, using a lot of pictures will stimulate interest in language. In the language activity, teachers need to push students to make sentences. Since it is important to make students understand, teachers also need to care for the grammar or the form sometimes. More importantly, they should make the whole activity go smoothly. 




2020年12月29日火曜日

英語教育講義⑫

    This lecture emphasizes the importance of content-based language teaching. This method of teaching is conducted well at Sophia University, Linden Hall School and Katoh Gakuen High School in Japan. They are based on the European program, which teaches students in second language. 

    In addition, immersion education began in Quebec which is an English-speaking area. It starts with parents basically, and eventually succeed. Most children learned to read and listen to French without special training. As Stephen Krashen has said that getting many inputs so that comprehensible input would be enough. Most children could read and listen to second language enough. Nevertheless, their speaking and writing didn't work so well. Consequently, teachers need to make sure students understand the contents 










SLA Junior Seminar 2-13: The Chrysalids

 In Waknuk, children must be perfect. It is wrong to be different!      David always dreams of a city he has never seen before. Since he liv...