Personal Learning strategies
Being a teacher for more than 14 years, I believe in professional development. This means that I am not only teaching, but acquiring as well new things. Learning is a long life process. I have never stopped learning and improving my teaching strategies and exploring and implementing some best practices that I would come across or learn from seminars, conferences and study days that I have been attending, either as participant or speaker. I want to improve my public speaking skills; hence, I should correct my personal pronunciation.
Certainly, I have a fossilized pronunciation that I have to address because I am a language teacher. I am not a native speaker of this target language. That will not discourage me form improving my voice production. Sometimes, I feel I am not conveying my message successfully, by making my interlocutor struggle hard to decode what is said or what is meant. I speak too quickly. I have to slow down when speaking. I surely use different techniques to promote my teaching performance. I should be giving role model to my students.
I consider the following techniques effective to better my utterance. I would watch the same movie for countless times to hear and watch how the actors speak. My favorite movies are: “Gulliver Travelers” written by Jonathon Swift; the second is “The Lost Secret” series which I used with my students. I unquestionably learnt by hearth some phrases and words from these movies. Radio is of equal importance when you have the journalist and program that you like best. My much loved one is Akron Radio station in Cleveland. Television is very essential as well, namely, morning shows as fluent speakers are selected for discussion.
I am trying to practice my pronunciation by listening to my beloved collection of songs, especially pop and country music. I also use audio dictionaries on my computer to check my pronunciation. There is a motto which stresses that we should check even the utterance of the familiar words.
Engaging in different conversations with native speakers is excellent. I will be learning ‘best from lectures, tutorials, tapes, group discussion, speaking, web chat and talking things through’. One of the best things is used with my students is using various scenarios to put them in a creative ways.
Being a teacher for more than 14 years, I believe in professional development. This means that I am not only teaching, but acquiring as well new things. Learning is a long life process. I have never stopped learning and improving my teaching strategies and exploring and implementing some best practices that I would come across or learn from seminars, conferences and study days that I have been attending, either as participant or speaker. I want to improve my public speaking skills; hence, I should correct my personal pronunciation.
Certainly, I have a fossilized pronunciation that I have to address because I am a language teacher. I am not a native speaker of this target language. That will not discourage me form improving my voice production. Sometimes, I feel I am not conveying my message successfully, by making my interlocutor struggle hard to decode what is said or what is meant. I speak too quickly. I have to slow down when speaking. I surely use different techniques to promote my teaching performance. I should be giving role model to my students.
I consider the following techniques effective to better my utterance. I would watch the same movie for countless times to hear and watch how the actors speak. My favorite movies are: “Gulliver Travelers” written by Jonathon Swift; the second is “The Lost Secret” series which I used with my students. I unquestionably learnt by hearth some phrases and words from these movies. Radio is of equal importance when you have the journalist and program that you like best. My much loved one is Akron Radio station in Cleveland. Television is very essential as well, namely, morning shows as fluent speakers are selected for discussion.
I am trying to practice my pronunciation by listening to my beloved collection of songs, especially pop and country music. I also use audio dictionaries on my computer to check my pronunciation. There is a motto which stresses that we should check even the utterance of the familiar words.
Engaging in different conversations with native speakers is excellent. I will be learning ‘best from lectures, tutorials, tapes, group discussion, speaking, web chat and talking things through’. One of the best things is used with my students is using various scenarios to put them in a creative ways.
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