Overall reflection

My first impression of this class was from my junior sister. When I asked her some suggestions about which required class I should elect, she strongly recommended this class. “This class was not only easy but also worth-learning, for you can learn some experience from here.”, she said with her bright eyes. “What kind of experiences?”, I asked, with my confusion and curiosity. “Learn and teach a foreign language in public, including some teaching methods.” Listening from her personal experiences, I was totally fueled much energy and enthusiasm, determining to get this credit. Fortunately, I seize the opportunity with luck, thus I started my fantasy learning journal. This journal was both smooth but bumpy, but I am quite satisfied with the overall result, for I already tried my best.

 

The first part will be teaching methods from class. These are worthy to take away, because they are capable of applying in actual teaching sites. For instance, fluency circle is a way that “repeating” what we learned, this can be another way to review. As long as frequently reviewing a certain content, a lecture for example, I am more familiar with that. Another reason I consider this method works is that the frequency of appearing. In other words, the more times you see a words, the much desire to remember comes up. Because our brain reminds us this word appears so many times, we may have chances applying it, both for conversations and assignments. I recall Professor Cc led us to experience this method all on our own in actual; we got a dialogue for us to remember. First, read it aloud to get the first impression. Secondly, try to share your information to others, but reduce the time we look at the script as less as possible. Third, don’t look at the script, convey the idea in your brain to others. Even if this way may be regarded as dull or repetitive, I still recommend it to be one of teaching methods. For this can construct our memories, make students familiarize the content, and provide a required time for them to review. What’s more, I also noticed a group teach Korean with this method I their video, showing that this way is useful to every instructor.

 

The second will be some obstacles I had encountered while learning German. Consequently, I induce some reasons of why obstacles generating. First, I had never learned German before. When the main theme final project was decided, I felt powerless since I was unfamiliar with this language. “Why we choose the most difficult one as our final project?” After pondering this question, I found that perhaps this is a challenge, god wants me to conquer it. Therefore, I chose to take it, making every effort to do my best. Secondly, it may be frustration due to my studies after midterm. There were so many tests and assignment among every class; this absolutely disturbed my mindset. “Am I strong enough to finish this class?”, self-doubt came up, plus my frustration of learning German.