Introduction to Language Learning Blog

  Journal Entry 5   Welcome to this week’s journal. Today I would like to talk about something a little different, my major in college. So, as you could probably guess, I major in the department of English. For our courses, the majority of them are regarding linguistics, writing, oral training and English literature. And I actually didn’t intend to go to this department in the first place when I was deciding what to study in college. At first, I wanted to study business, but as things didn’t exactly go my way, I then decided to go to NCCU(a rather good business school)’s Department of English, and planned on also majoring in business if things allowed me to do so.      So knowing this, I was taking business courses (economics and accounting) while taking my major’s courses upon entering college. And from my freshmen year, I felt like English majors are definitely at a disadvantage compared to students studying business. Their courses are more oriented towar...

   Well hello again, very pleased that you are tagging along with my little journey of language learning. Today, I would like to share my experiences in the class of “Introduction to Language Learning.”   For starters, what I like most of this class is that there are tons of fun opportunities for students to interact with each other, even when the class size is quite large. In other lessons that I’ve taken in NCCU, the majority of classes either have no social activities or only have activities that ask students to solve problems, and then come up with solutions. The latter one is fun and alright, but can sometimes be quite frustrating when you just don’t have the right idea at the given moment or maybe you are just not engaged in the topic at all. In this course, however, the activities are very engaging, like the jigsaw activity we did the other day, or the game in which we have to come up with vague solutions to our planets’ problem and have to let other groups gu...