Question 1: Which of these approaches do you hope will have more influence on your teaching in future?
I hope I can simultaneously use the communicative language teaching and affective humanistic approaches. I was under the traditional teaching environment that teachers mainly focused on learners’ linguistic knowledge but lost the attentions on their individual varieties. But actually each learner has their own learning style and personal factors influenced on their learning consequence. I would stand a position of counselor and facilitator and help learners communicate and interact in the class in TL. Furthermore, the course would be student- centered and teacher would make students discuss in their group. I assume students can trough the authentic communications gain some confidence on self English learning. I would primarily focus on learners’ TL fluency and secondary on their accuracy. I consider that students can gradually self correct and watch out their own feeling on the process of learning.
Question 2: What strategies will you use to make your teaching more effective and meaningful?
I would use cognitive, CLT and task- based approach to facilitate my teaching. I would stress on students’ learning and thinling. Also I would see each student as a isolated individual that one should responsible for his or her own learning. My potential students would be the high school academic level, so I assume they have the ability of self correction and I wouldn’t mainly focus on their pronunciation. Instead, I would choose to emphasize on their whole language skill separately. L, R, W, and S should all be emphasized. However, I would apply task- based approach and make students communicate and learn from activities. Also through peer correction, students can reduce their anxiety about TL learning and gradually reach the goal of SLA.
