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Jingzhu Wu |
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Statement My teaching Teachers should seek student-oriented, up-to-dated, and effective teaching methods, materials, and activities while making teaching plans. Language teaching can not be taught without motivating students’ involvement by means of sensation and imagination. Through physically and mentally immersing oneself in the language, language can merge into one’s life and become an asset. In addition, language instruction has its own characteristics. Language is the tool to communicate with people of different cultural background and eventually, the bridge to reach other cultural destinations. In this regard, cultural interpretation and comparison should be the main thread connecting classroom activities in terms of individual presentation, group performance, role-play, and campus interview. Students’ success or failure of learning language is closely related to the attention and the fairness they received from their teachers and the closeness with their teachers. Language teachers should be accessible to their students in classroom as well as in office. As language teachers, we should always, first, be good listeners and then give them enthusiastic encouragement and sincere suggestion. Teachers’ attention to students will build the student’s confidence. As well, teachers’ feedback to the individual will bring lasting learning memory. In addition, language learners are sensitive to the levels of language abilities among their classmates. Giving attention evenly and treating students equally will let them feel that everybody has the chance to practice language in classroom. Language teachers should also play as language doctors and be very sensitive to how students speak, converse, and express themselves in terms of pronunciation, tone, word usage, and grammatical structure. They should make all the necessary corrections in order to help students reach language precision but in the mean time, not hurt their self-esteem. The world is changing constantly, so is language instruction. Language teachers should be open to the world of language instruction and are always willing to adapt to new methodology, pedagogy, and technology in order to perfect their teachings. |
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