Introduction to Language Learning Blog

  I would like to give an ending to this wonderful journey. Although I know true to myself that I wouldn't get into language teaching in the future (at least for career option), I still enjoy this course a lot. I feel like teaching skills can be implement into other aspect in lots of ways. Like take meetings for example, maybe you would have something or a concept that would be difficult to explain if plainly expressed by words, but through activities, it may be better for people to understand. Also, with the projects that we have done through the semester, it also gave us chance to practice problem solving. So in the end, although language learning isn't exactly what I want to do, I think I still learned a lot. Thank you for following the journal. Hope you would have a fantastic new year! 

 This week, we watched tons of video from different groups, and some were very professional! They got great editing, sound choice, and video content, which I deeply admired. For my own group, me and Ramon was the ones to make the video. And because we kind of start off late, we rushed the process and I feel like we could do better next time.

  In our second week, we start with the review part, where we went over the things we talked about last time. And then, it’s the evaluation time! We have the groups compete with each other and the winners would get candies! The first competition was Kahoot, in which we put vocabs, phrases and interesting trivia knowledge about the Spanish culture. As we went on with the games, we noticed that the time limit for each question was a little bit too short, and some students didn’t quite have enough time to solve them. That’s something we should watch out on next time. But overall the Kahoot activity went well.   Then, the second activity is about training students to speak and listen well. One part is to let students finish sentences that we give out. Another part is to let students find mistakes in a sentence. Then, after the activity is done, we give out our rewards to the winners! And long story short, it pretty well!   From the other groups, we learn further knowl...