Chapter 3 Reflection

 

Question 1

Make a list of 10 words that young children have difficulty pronouncing in their native language. how old are children who have trouble pronouncing these words? does this difficulty continue as children develop? are these English language phonemes or do these phonemes exist in English? how could you incorporate special attention to these sounds in your lesson?

Answer

• Squirrel
• Rural
• Literally
• Temperature
• Straight
• sixth
• specific
• knee
• Massachusetts
• Rhythm

They are difficult to say that because there is an alphabet deceiver but it is not mentioned in spelling as we pronounce nee k as missing and some words make their tongue stiff or loose when to spell these words. if they know how to pronounce it will be easy for them. and for phonemes id very important to know the meaning of the sound when it is spoken like on the age-mastered table in the book, and how I incorporated it by giving them an example from a video or me to giving a view them.

Question 2

Look back at the action box on page 49 where you rewrote your finger-play or a song. make a note of the basic pattern and list the words that were substituted.

What color is it?

Colors, Colors that I see

Colors, Colors are beautiful to me

Colors, Colors, all around the world

Colors, Colors, for every boy and girl

This is Pineapple, It looks like this, This is Pineapple what color is it?

it's yellow

This is Strawberry, It looks like this, This is Strawberry what color is it?

it's red

This is the Grape, it looks like this, This is a Grape what color is it?

it's Purple

words list

• Pineapple, Yellow
• Strawberry, red
• Grape, Purple

Question 3

What are other games that would lend to the language learning classroom? Think about games that can be played with partners, in a small group, or large group

Answer

Three games should do with partners, small groups, and large groups

1. Scrabble

This game is suitable to test creativity, especially in learning vocabulary

2. Pictionary

Pictionary is a picture-based charades game ideally played by 2 groups.  First, each group will get several cards, each containing 4 vocabularies.  Then, they can choose a vocabulary to draw.  Then, the next task for the other players is to guess the word based on the picture made.  The winning group is the one that guesses the most words correctly.  This game can challenge children to know and understand more English vocabulary.

3. Dabble

Dabble is a word-building game that's quite similar to Scrabble.  This game is suitable for 2-4 people to play, and each player will get 20 pieces of letters.  The task of the players is to compose 5 English words consisting of 2 letter words, 3 letters, 4 letters, 5 letters, and 6 letters within 5 minutes.

Question 4

Think about how language errors were corrected when you were learning a foreign language. where errors were corrected in a subtle way as described above or was the overemphasis placed on errors? How did you feel?

Answer

I feel it's too wordy because makes the sentence too long, but the good thing is this way is clear enough but try to make it short.

Question 5

Think about the classroom where you have worked or studied as a child. what type of signal did or could the teacher have used to get the children's attention quietly?

Answer

In my experience when I teach young learners when the class is too noisy, I give a signal like this "Alright everyone keeps your eyes on me" if it's not working I will give the second signal like this  "I will ask you one by one if you don't know it will be your homework and I will add extra to you, and suddenly they pay attention on me