Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The most interesting point in the language unit

In the language unit, I'm really interested in the effects of age to second language learning. People who began to study second language in their childhood are more likely to be successful than other people. Especially, their pronunciation will be similar to the native speaker. It is because of if they start in childhood, they will have more time to practice and they won't shy to speak their second language. However, if they start when they are adult, they will embarrass about their level of language which is affects their movtivation to continue learning. They will think that they are old but their language is not good so they don't want to practise it.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The novel book that i am reading

On Friday last week, I bought a novel called Alias Grace which is written by Margaret Atwood. It is a complecate and long story. When I just start to read it, I found that I don't understand at all. Especially, the charactors are mixed up. I don't know who is talking about who and aslo who is talking to who. This problem makes it become a boring story and I was falling asleep while I was reading. However, this morning I disscused with my group about the charactors in the book and they explained me by making a charactor's map. So now i have an idea how follow this story. Now I'm reading the next section of the book, I found that it becomes more interesting even I don't understand all the ideas but I hope that after I read more and more i'll understand this story and i'll be able to retell the story. I'll try my best to do this project.
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Friday, June 22, 2007

How to be a good language learner?

Learning second language is very dificult for everybody. Especially, speaking is the most important factor in the language learning process. Success or failure will, in the end, be determined by what you yourself contribute. People learn in different ways. Some need to be very analytical: they need a rule for everything. Others are more intuitive: they gather examples and imitate. Some need lots of repetition, others less. Following are some ideas which should prove helpful to us to become a good language learner:


PREPARING FOR CLASS

Learning a new language involves remembering many rules about grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. We need establish a regular schedule and stick to it. Strict self-discipline is essential to mastering any language. don't keep on with the same thing until you are bored with it. Try to change the method to study and to practice.

VOCABULARY

a) Try to remember two or three words a day from the topic
b) learn the words in the context of the sentences in the dialogues of the textbook.
c) say the words out loud as you study them, use them and practice them. Don't afriad of being corrected. The more mistakes we make, the more we learn.
d) associate words with pictures. Try to understand the words by reading the whole sentence. Don't usually use the dictionary, especially, the one that translates the words into our native language.

USING CLASS TIME TO YOUR BEST ADVANTAG

In the class, we need to open eyes, ears and mouth. Don't be shy to ask question and give ideas. Paying attention while we are lectured in order to get the main ideas of the topic. When we don't understand, try to find help from the instuctor or the classmates.

AFTER CLASS -- REVIEWING

Reviewing what we learn today to make sure that we understand them. Try to find other imformation that are related to the topic by reading more from newspapers, watching the news program or cheacking from internet.

Try to practice what we learn otherwise we will forget them.

These are my opinions about how to be a good langauge learner. If you have any ideas to add or to correct my ideas, please do it. I need your help.

Sorida