Etienne and ESL

TESL 0160 Unit 2 Reflection: ESL Students and Group Work - Classroom Language                                                                                                  (Source: Pixabay)  While reading chapter 13 from Brown and Lee (2015), one point stood out to me that I had never considered before; "Do students have the language to be able to complete a group work activity?" They refer to this language as "classroom language", which refers to the vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to carry out a group task (2015). Until now I hadn’t considered this when planning my group-based activities, and yet it is essential to planning effective group-work. Otherwise, the students may feel overwhelmed and not accomplish...

                                               (Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Don_Quijote_in_Shinjuku_at_night.jpg)  Good afternoon! For TESL 160 Transitioning to the Classroom, I have done some research on a teaching job for the AEON Corporation, a company that operates English language schools across Japan. Below is a link to my analysis as well as an activity that I adapted for this context. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMy7TClCUuPI7S61QNWyb2ydtzGgGvBy/view?usp=sharing

                                    TESL 0160 Unit 1 Reflection: English as a Lingua Franca                                         (Source: https://pixabay.com/p-909149/?no_redirect ) Until now, I always believed that in order to learn a language, one must also immerse oneself in that culture in order to better understand it. For example, I have studied Japanese for a number of years and one approach that has helped me immensely is to listen to Japanese music, watch Japanese TV programs, and read Japanese news. In addition to this, I have learned about Japanese customs, which has given me a greater context for how and why the language is the way it is. However, in my case, I am learning Japanese so that I can communicate with other Japanese people, in Japan. What’s important to note...