Week 7: Class Reflection

I liked idea of dividing the class into two groups and asking them questions regarding the readings and giving them rewards. It created sort of fun game and comptition which I enjoyed. I think as the book discussed, it is not good to creat competition when teaching children and teenagers, but it is good I think to plan some competition activities or games for adult classes because usually there is less humor in adult classes.

We talked about differences between children and adult's langauge learning. I think the most important difference is motivation and the factors that affect motivation of the children and adults. Basically, the teacher can have a role in creating motivating children but for adults the teacher does not have an effective role to motivate them. Adults depend on broad and long term motivations (outside class) while children depend on specific and short term motivation (in class). As I said in class, children are not interested in learning a language and does not care about the span it takes him to learn and they can be motivated by only some small rewards from teacher. However, the factors that motivate adults to learn English is many depending on the community or place where they live. For example, Job, Education, Intertainment, Politics, Society, uncertain future need for English Language, and personal interest.