SLA week 2: Interview with Sally:

Interview with Sally

About Sally: She is my 11years old student who is attending Un-Book elementary school.

She is learning English about 4years from Un-Book elementary school. Her English skill is pretty good, she trained phonics sound by native English teachers.  She was little bit nervous in front of the camera that time.  She understood the questions, but she didn't make a complete sentence.  I am working with her more sentence structures and vocabularies. 

Interview with Hace Lee

About Hace: English Academy director, Graduated University and studied English in Korea

Hace and I have known each other about 1.5 year as an English teacher and school director.

Her English proficiency level is pretty high because she has to communicate with native English teachers at school.

Some school director didn't like to communicate with native English teachers, their English fluency or accuracy is not enough, they believe so.  One of my native English friends told me that the school director didn't like her much she said. They had hardly spoken between my friend and her boss. 

I explained her that your boss is just little bit shy to speak English!!!

Hace started to learn English since in her middle teenage. 

Her English proficiency and accuracy is pretty good. 

Her interview was successfully done with me. 

Methodology: This is a typical English kindergarten in Gangnam

This is a typical English kindergarten in Gangnam, Seoul.

I tried to use some teaching method we learned from the last class.  They are 4years old kids, and they are really amazing!  

I did know how to say even Good Morning in my early childhood.

Korean kids started to educate English in their early childhood, I would like to train them to be fluent bilingual speakers as they grow up.  
So they will be bilingual speakers naturally and without signs of stress and over studying.

The first method that I used is Choral Repetition.

I said Good Morning to everyone. It is general a general greeting to start of the class.  Every kids has one chance to speak out in the class! There are no chances to practice English at home.

The second method that I used is Individual Student Repetition. 
Some young learners have no interest or motivation to learn English. 
That is the most difficult situation to teach them. I tried to only Eundong to say the word.  After individual focus, he has more interest about the lesson.  I think who are teaching second language or childhood must have very soft personality.  No yell!

I think that small voice tone is more effective communication method for them.  
I also used many visuals, English songs, and muti-media, too.  
This is the way to make the lessons interesting.