2015년 10월 27일 화요일

Survey Report on Early Education


  1. Answer your classmates’ surveys.
  2. Make sure you have at least 10 responses to your survey.
     3. Write a report about your survey results. Make sure you include an introduction that tells the reason for the survey and the research question, a methods section that describes your survey and the participants, a discussion of your results, and a conclusion that suggests action based on your survey results.
 
<Introduction>
One of the hot issues in English Education area is “early English education”. People are divided about this issue whether early English education is good to kids to improve their English ability or this teaching way would make children feel pressure. These two opinions are equally divided
pro and con. The reason that the survey is conducted is to know what my friends think about early English education.


<Method>
To know what does my friends think about early education, I prepared 9 questions using Google survey. One question is about asking personal experience on English Education, two questions are about the point of view which mess media deals with early Education, and four questions are about indirect experience came from other around people, and last two questions are asking  surveyor thoughts how does early English Education influence on the student's’ English ability ability. 11 students replied to this survey.


<Results>
9 of 11 students say they personally experienced early Education. Also, 9 of 11 people say they know the kids who are studying English on their early age. Although there are some cons of early English Education, all students who took this survey say early Education is one of the proper teaching ways, and 9 of 11 students think preschool children who is under 8 age could be early Education objects.


<Conclusion>
If we use early English Education properly, we can make a Education field that magnify the effectiveness of teaching on four English skills. Like the students say that early English Education would be helpful to acquire listening and speaking skills, it is definitely true that there are benefits coming from starting to learn English early age that cannot be expected on late English learners.     

2015년 10월 6일 화요일

Other classmates' opinions about "To a Daughter Leaving Home."

“To a Daughter Leaving Home” is the family poems that many people say worthy to be taught in the classroom adding different supporting reasons. Most of the people who read this poem feel family love, and for this reason, they insist this poem would be good source that facilitates students’ literary sensibility. In addition to this reason, there are two other reasons emphasized by three bloggers. They say the poem is easy to “activate students’ schema” and written with easy words.


John Jung points out that “this poem is easy to activate students’ schema on a pedagogical view”. The topic of this poem can easily arouse students’ interest and that should help to get them have their own motivation on a literacy class (Jung, 2015.9.29). As another reason, Sehoon Lee says the poem is written with words these are on proper level  fitting with high school student level. He insists that the poem is consisted with not too long sentences with proper number of words. Also he says that this poem would make students who have anxiety on English feel relieve (Lee, 2015.9.23). As a supporting point of what Lee mentions, Yenny Hwang says that because of the easy words, the poem gives motivation to students to read it and find the meaning of the metaphors (Hwang, 2015.9.29). Three of those people insist that the poem is good to be read in the classroom.


In summary, Jung chooses this poem because of its topic which is easily activates students’ schema, and Lee and Hwang also recommend the poem for a reason that it is written with easy words that would make students feel less anxious on English reading. All their reasons are valid reasons these are enough to students encourage to read this poem. As they say, if the students read this poem, it would be valuable time nurturing literary ability that reading the poem.





References:
Hwang, Yenny (2015.9.29) “week 5 homework ” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://yennyhwang.blogspot.kr/.


Jung, John (2015.9.29) “Importance of teaching good poem : 'To the daughter leaving home' ” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://happywrtingwithjohn.blogspot.kr/.


Lee, Sehoon (2015.9.23) “To a Daughter Leaving Home ” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://onlyforeee-hoon.blogspot.kr/.