Not having any experience of teaching, I got a lot of fresh ideas from this book. I already knew about the word ‘context’ but didn’t realize the real meaning of that word. It is important to define what I know about the context and to know as much as possible about the context in order to make decisions about the course and design language courses as a teacher (Graves , 2000, p.13). Also, I got to know that there were really various aspects of context that I should consider before thinking of what I teach and how I teach: people, time, physical setting, teaching resources, and nature of the course and institution (p.16).
Furthermore, I understood that the complex nature of the beliefs and understandings about learning and teaching influences a teacher to make decision in a particular direction (p.25~26). Beliefs that arose from past experience or work experience play an important role at each stage of course design. According to these concepts, I could have a chance to think about my understandings and beliefs of learning and teaching.
In the beginning I was quite frustrated while I was reading the textbook.
답글삭제The whole concept of designing language is totally brand new idea to me who has no teaching experience just same as you.
But when I changed my point of view from teachers to learners, this made it easier to understand the effective way of designing language course.
When you think of your past learning experience you could recall the advantages and disadvantages you had in your classes.
If we apply our learning experience we had from the
past to our designing language course
It may surely be able to meet the needs of student in practical teaching.