“Yes” yet their heads were shaking "No”? The difference between the words people speak and our understanding of what they are saying come from non-verbal communication, otherwise known as “body language”. As you will learn in this video, by developing your awareness of the signs and signals of body language, you can more easily understand other people, and more effectively communicate with them. As for Amy Cuddy starts by asking us to focus to what we’re doing with our bodies. Are our shoulders
taught me a few new aspects of language learning. The first important factor learnt from the paper and workshop was its introduction of the methodology of conversation analysis. I learnt that conversation analysis (CA) ethnomethodological methods attempt to analyze in detail talk-in-interaction and to explain social and communicative competences. Moreover, CA emphasizes on illustrating how participants make sense of situations, verbal ques, and social structures in language through speech actions and
target context, as well as resonance and discrepancies between these two ‘utterances’. Translation from one language into another has its own challenges, complications and difficulties. Many characteristics of a given language are unique to that language and cannot be found in other languages. Moreover, cultural elements of a society affect its language, As Andone (2002: page 130) states, “Languages are seen as part of the process by which identities formed. In this context, the understanding of translation
to use about language development. In this reflective essay, I will discuss about what three big ideas about language development that stood out to me during the presentation, some of the red flags that teachers need to look for in the classroom in response to language development, my overall reflection of the guest speaker experience, and if I feel that the information learned will be beneficial to me in the future in my classroom. First, I will discuss about what three big ideas about language
According to Trent (2012), teacher identity can be divided into two main categories which are Practice and Language. These two items involves several processes like, engagement, arrangement, and creativity, transaction of implications, duty, assessment and authorizing. Teacher identity is consisted of items mentioned above. Author believes that agency and discourse occurs when Practice and Language are combined. Trent (2010) combines those items by naming it as an integrated framework of the teacher
with tools. In contrast to direct forms of education, indirect forms of education such as observation, experimentation, and learning by means of reflection allow students to fully understand what they learn and apply it in a variety of settings, ranging from a classroom to a
antecedents that individuals use although they have been condemned historically over the years. Importantly, the reflections by the writer are to annihilate the silence about the issue and provide a language that
assumptions about what makes this discipline effective. Teaching is part of a life-long and non-stop learning process. Reflecting upon the way I conduct my classes provides me with many dimensions of learning and with many dimensions of professional growth too. It helps me to improve what I do inside the classroom on a daily basis with my students and it helps me to overcome my weaknesses in my field of work as well. First, in order to improve the way I, as an educator, teach my students, reflection on my
complex skill for second language learners. This difficulty can not only be attributed to creating and organizing new ideas, but can also be extended to the ability to transfer ideas to the appropriate context (Richards &Rendayana, 2002). Many factors are involved in process of writing that intensify the complexity of writing skill. Factors like mastering the elements of grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, content, organization and style are only few areas to consider in second language writing process (Hyland
This assignment will reflection of my experience as a trainee teacher and it will also discuss how reflection has become at the central of my learning and improving my teaching. In doing this, I will first discuss my philosophy in teaching and learning language and the impact of National Curriculum in teaching today; secondly, I will highlight the importance of reflection in development of ML teaching and then I will also discuss on the difficulties that I have during my training. Personal Philosophy