Furthermore, changes could be noticed in the classroom atmosphere in the recorded reflective journal where the numbers of students that actively participate in the classroom discussion were significantly increased. In the beginning of the study, the ESL classroom is only dominated by few students while the rest tend to be invisible. After the treatments given, the students were more confident in speaking English and majority of the students were willing to share their ideas in English with the class. Even the quiet students were motivated in expressing their view on their friends’ comments in the classroom discussion. Besides that, some of the students have gained high level of confidence in speaking where they stand up and provided another example to support or differ from the point discussed earlier by their friends. The data collected reveals that the teacher by providing the students a more relaxing learning atmosphere encourages the students to participate more in the class. The …show more content…
The students have shown remarkable changes in their perceptions and attitudes toward English speaking after the treatments. Stornes et al (2008, as cited in Pritchard and Wooland, 2010) emphasized that social classroom structure has impact on the motivational climates. Last but not least, the implementation of advertisement-oriented lessons (social classroom structure) has positively impacted on the motivational climates.
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In a nutshell, the findings suggested that advertisement is indeed an effective teaching material in engaging the students to English speaking. Students have benefited from the advertisement-oriented lessons in many ways specifically in their speaking ability and their learning atmosphere. Next chapter will discuss about the implications and recommendations of this
However, where the achievements of the whole class matter more than the individual. Schuman shares her personal experience of teaching and dealing with different kinds of students in hope that her intended audience will learn a lesson of the importance of class participation. Her views are very instructive, truthful, and encouraging to all college students. The article was elegantly well written by Schuman, who directed college student how to take part in the course and benefit from it.
For many years, companies have utilized advertising as a useful tool to promote their brands, convey a message, or sell their products. In today’s world, advertisements can be seen almost everywhere from enormous billboards along highways to a diminutive ads on a phone. But not all advertisements are successful. To convey a message, advertisements must contain rhetorical devices such as pathos, logos, and ethos. A good example of how rhetorical devices are used to persuade an audience is the Edward Jones “Nine Days” commercial.
I came into my first college writing class feeling prepared thanks to you and your investment in me as a student in your AP Lang class. I developed as a writer more than I ever had in your class, and it definitely helped me in my college writing class this semester. I already knew how important it was to revise and continuously critically think about my writing, as well as the importance of multiple drafts and peer review. My English 110 class this semester was very similar to yours because we also did multiple drafts where I could revise my paper as many times as needed. The big difference was that the focus was on different genres and how to appeal to those, which was something new compared to my high school English courses.
Learning English as a second language can be a struggle for many immigrants across the world, especially when they simultaneously have to find a job, support their families and sometimes even attend school. ESL classes are provided for immigrants in order to improve their English and help them find a good job and acclimate into Canadian society. Both children and adult newcomers struggle when it comes to learning English and taking ESL classes on top of an already stressful life, but learning English has shown to be a much easier process when working in groups. Aside from learning grammar and spelling it is essential to know how to properly converse with other people in English and communicate in an understandable and relatively fluent manner and who better to practice one’s conversation skills then with other immigrants in the same position. Group work has proven to be effective in many situations which is why it should be more often applied to language learning and as Weimer (1987) suggested, “No matter how much we hate or love group work; it is one of the effective strategies of learning a lesson that creates a powerful learning experience among students and that activity as group work has the potential to develop students’ progression in new information, which accelerates learning” (p. 2).
On November 9, Mead School District held the fifth school board meeting of this academic year. Running the meeting was Superintendent Tom Rockefeller, President Board Director Ron Farley, Vice President Board Director Denny Denholm, and Board Directors, Maureen O’Connor, Robert Olson, and Carmen Green. All of the directors were recently re-elected, excluding Maureen O’Connor who isn’t up for re-election until next year. Due to this, there was an almost celebratory feel to the meeting, with many of the Directors, especially Vice-President Denholm, making jokes and being conversational with the small audience. At the meeting, I was the only person attending that was not giving a presentation to the board.
For my educational experience, i attended a school board meeting on April 26th at the District center. This was my first school board meeting, so i wasn 't sure what to expect, but i wasn 't expecting that set up. I was expecting more parental and community involvement, those stereotypical parents who criticizes everything about the system. Instead i found myself with adults who looked like they were doing the same amount of observing as me. There was 8 board members sitting together in a closed square flip top, i didn 't particularly like this because a few members had there back faced to the guests and it felt like guests/other presenters weren 't as important or acknowledged really.
Reflective Practice in the Early Years Tools for Practitioners 1. Introduction “We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey- You have probably heard the term “reflective practice”, but do you really know what this means?
If one is able to cope with the dissonance, at the same time can make a choice faster. 2.2. Visual presentation of an Advertisement with Regard to Its Persuasive Potential Advertisement, as previously investigated, has to draw one’s attention and promote particular product. Amid this feature, the essence of advertising is visual communication. As the role of language is crucial in further analysis, the visual presentation is the first element that make the receiver be interested with the advertisement.
Gurvansh Gill Semester End Reflection Throughout this semester, I learned about many new topics, perspectives, and skills that changed my views on programming. At first I was unsure about whether or not I should take this course because I did not know if programming was a topic I was interested in; however, reflecting back on that, I now know that taking this course was worth it and that I should continue to in the following years of High School. In this essay, I will reflect upon the various projects I completed throughout the course and how project-based learning aided me in becoming more of an independent learner.
One of the unique aspects of the Department of Child Development and Family Relations is that many of the department’s large core courses offer teaching assistant opportunities to undergraduate students. Teaching assistant opportunities are valuable for undergraduate students to decide whether to apply as a graduate teaching position, great addition to a resume, and for a letter of recommendation. From my teaching assistant experience, I was able to fully grasp the concepts of middle childhood development, form a new appreciation for professors and teaching assistants, and reflect on myself as a student. In addition, I had the opportunity to strengthen several essential skills such as organizational skills, leadership skills, and communication
English for Business provides students with the techniques of direct participation. To provide students with the language skills necessary to communicate effectively in a business environment. Students will practice presentation Speaking at a conference Collective bargaining agreement And to explain and defend their views. All this by using the terminology and vocabulary of academic. Whether the latest news about the business of their teaching in the classroom.
Based off assisting these past populations, I have learned that I enjoy getting to know people, I exhibit excellent empathy to any difficult situation an individual is confronting me about, and I can be creative with my work in regards to using my creative abilities. However, my finest strength would be listening and asking questions that help the individual figure out the situation and for me to get to know the individual better. When working with children, I can be creative in terms of keeping the child’s attention such as arts and crafts, physical activities, and understanding their cognitive/behavioral development. As for working with adolescences and adults, people have said I am very approachable and nonjudgmental. I do utilize this quality
Who am I? I am Quentina Burnett and I have been developed by socialization, to be able to fit within the society. Socialization is the process where an individual learns behavior, values, culture, and norms of the society to develop his or her personality to become a proficient person in the society (Keirns et al., 2016). This process starts in the early stage of a baby, to an adult, and continues until the individual dies. The process of socialization gives people and myself the basic social contact and social interaction needed to develop “self”.
By adopting these several motivational strategies in the classroom will affect the enthusiasm of the students in a positive way, thus promoting and sustaining
Advertisement is a method of mass promotion that’s typically used by different firms to reach large groups of potential consumers to persuade and inform them about a particular brand of product or service through oral or visual message. This means that the aim of any advertising is to differentiate and deliver various information about the product and the company to the prospective and existing consumers, it is therefore vital to make the message of the advertising effective, clear, focused and singular to make it easy for the target customers to hold on to it and catch it; as this provides a basis for