How different are ESL and EFL? (Week4)

      Last time, Miss Usa assigned my friends and me to research about the different between TESL(The Teaching English as a Second Language) and TEFL(The Teaching English as a Foreign Language), so here is our summary. TESL is a way to teaching English in the country or places where English has highly demanded. For example. the using English as an official language in once colonized country such as India, Singapore, and etc. In those country, English language is really important to the people who live there. It's almost like if you're unable to speak English, you're going to die or something like that. So the intensity of teaching and studying English in those countries is really intense, while TEFL has much lower intensity than TESL. However, most of the functions and its goal are the same -"To be able to use English to communicate with other people." After we presented our research about TESL and TEFL, Miss Usa began to teaches about "How to make the students do not bored in classroom." This one is quite interesting for me because I always fall asleep while the teacher is describing something or giving lecture. Well, I don't really want to say this, but as soon as Miss Usa began to describing or giving lecture. I fall asleep...It looks like your "How to make the students do not bored in classroom" doesn't work or it might not working only for me?!!

Lingual Franca...? (Week3)

       English has many branches which is separated from its own origin and its uses. Back to the time of an Old English where people from tribes were still fighting to each other for land or food or etc. they want to, but they still say English language. The English language in each tribe has their own unique which make it hard to people from other tribes to understand, but they're still be the English language. Later in the Middle English, the great war spread around the European land. It eradicates many tribes out of the history face, but still creates another good thing too. It unities the English language from the many tribes to make it become one. In the Early Modern English, the colonialism causes England to invade the other lands to make colonies. Many lands or countries lost to England and have to adapt English as their one of their own official languages. Still, England sends people of its own to the land that they called "New World" or American to create a new colony which is later set itself free from England. This is the beginning of "World Englishes ". Until now, In the age of Late Modern English, there still be more and more new Englishes were born. So what is Lingual Franca? Well, it is the ways of studying English as same as ENL, ESL, EFL and EIL ,but Lingual Franca is focus on trading in term of the people who don't share a native language or dialect. Not only Lingual Franca meant to be for commercial, but also for religious, cultural, or etc.

How did it happen? (Week2)

       Last week, I was told in the class that we are going to discuss about the teaching method for Communicative Language Teaching which is used in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). I'm really excited and eager to discuss about this topic to show my point of view or my attitude toward CLT. Especially, when Miss Usa gave me the article sheet name, The End of CLT which shows the weakness of CLT approach. But some thing happened, I...woke up late... It's not just the normally late. I was very late...extremely late. I woke up at ten o'clock while Miss Usa's class starts at eight thirty in the morning. I rushed out of my room. Actually, I didn't even take a bath that morning. I tried my best to get to the classroom as soon as I can, but it was too late. Miss Usa had to go to the meeting in the conference room at ten thirty in the morning, and it was too late by the time I arrived. I don't know what to say. I don't have any excuses. It was all my fault, but at least least, let me say "Sorry" to you here Miss Usa. I can't promise to you that I won't be late again or I won't fall as sleep in your class again. But I'll try to improve my self next time.

First Seminar! (Week1)

        When I first saw Seminar in English subject, which is taught by Miss Usa Noytim, on my class schedule list, I didn't really think about the weblog because she already used the weblog teaching technique to teach us. However, I was told that I had to write the weblog again after I had studied my first class. Well, writing a weblog is not a big deal for me. For the first week, Miss Usa explained the course syllabus then she tested our requisite knowledge for Seminar in English class by separating us into 4 groups according to 4 subjects which are the requisites for Seminar in English class. My group got Teaching English Methodology 1, so my friends and I tried our best to think about what we had learned in that subject, and these are the things we can think of:

1. The Development of English - English has developed through 4 phrases of time, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Late Modern English.

2. The Circle of English by Krachu - Inner Circle (native), Outer Circle (second language), and Expanding Circle (foreign language).

3. The English Language Teaching - English as a Native Language (ENL), English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English as an International Language (EIL), and English as a Lingual Franca  (ELF).

4. The Different Approach - Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Lingual Method, The Silent Way, Suggestopedia Method, Total Physical Respond Method, Community Language Learning, and Communicative Approach.

5. Step of Teaching - Warm up, 3Ps - Prensentaion, Practice, Production

6. Teaching Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening skill, Speaking skill, Reading skill, and Writing skill.

       Think of what we had learned in entire last year really made us fell exhaust, but it was fun too. At the end of the class, Ms. Usa gave us the article which topic name is "The End of CLT" and she told us that we are going to debate about Communicative Language Teaching in the next time we meet, so we have to read this article before we come to study in the class. That really makes me feel excited!

About me!

Last name        : Tangtoncharoen

First name        : Watcharapong
Address            : 222 M.1, Tambon Nangbuat, Amphoe Doembangnangbuat
                           , Suphanburi province, 72120.
Nationality       : Thai
Date of birth     : 5 April 1995
Phone               : 087-1637990
E-mail              : maymunza@hotmail.com
Brothers/Sisters: I have one brother.
College/work   : Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University.
Hobbies           : Surfing the internet, Playing computer games, Reading cartoons and
                           novels.