Not much I could say. This week's class was cancelled!
3rd Week Reflection
Salam 1 UM. This was the 3rd week of studying in UM. For this week, Puan Fauziah had told us to work in group of six. My group member was Haniff, Faiz, Izzati, Halimah and Sarah. For this task, we need to refer to the book ‘TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM’ written by Susan Halliwell. After the discussion, we need to present it by using the PowerPoint presentation.
The topic that we need to discuss was ‘Working with young language learner’. Young learner’s brain is not a blank slate. When they enter the classroom, they bring together well establish set of instinct, skills and characteristics which could help them to grasp the knowledge well. There are six major abilities that could help children to be cognitively mature in language learning which are:
ü Children’s ability to grasp meaning
ü Children’s creative use of limited language resources
ü Children’s capacity for indirect learning
ü Children’s instinct for play and fun
ü The role of imitation
ü The instinct for interaction
Our group was focusing on the last abilities that the children have which is the instinct for interaction and talk. As we all know, children loves to talk. They frequently asks questions to the elders and sometimes, we become speechless when there are too many questions to answer. We cannot blame them. It is their instincts that lead them to do so. We as a teacher must understand this natural or inborn abilities that the children have so that we would not demotivated them or punished them. For that reason, we could integrate speaking activities such as role play, spelling bee and so on. This could give them a better platform for students to express themselves through meaningful speaking activity.
Other than that, we had been explain briefly by Puan Foziah about assignment 2 where we need to find as many teaching aid such as video clip, pictures, flash card, songs, and stories as we can. This is due to the assignment 3 where we need to use the material. She stressed that she loves to see us having a lot of teaching aids and that mean we must have bundles of material before we proceed to the assignment 3.
I think, this was the end of my 3rd week reflection. Remember, if a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
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