Monday, April 23, 2007

Research question

I'm interested in English education at elementary school. Last summer vacation I did practice teaching at elementary school. I taught 3rd grade students English. After the teaching, I had a question. This was "What English activities can children's communication skill be developed?".
I think that children can develop both English communication skill and Japanese communication skill by English activity. I want to research the relation between English activity in elementary school and communication skill, but I have to think over the research question.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Meeting 1

Today we talked about our spring vacation and our goals of this year.

My spring vacation was very busy, but very exciting!! First, I got a driver's license. So I drove by my father's car from Kawai to Miyako. It took for an hour. I was very tired, because it was difficult for me to handle his car. Second, I helped my teachers to drow pictures for text book. The name of it is "Take it easy!". It was very hard, but I had a great experience! If you are interested in English education at elementary school, you should read this book. Besides you can find many pictures that I drew.
Nyanmage and Fantasista had a exciting vacation too. Nyanmage took part in ski game. That game was her final game. She enjoyed skiing. When she talked about it, her face was bright face. Fantasista went to Hanamaki hot spring with his friends. And he studied very hard for teacher's test. When I heard it, I think I have to study more and more!

I wrote my goals in this blog. However I write my goals again. First, I'm going to take the TOEIC test next month. I want to get high score. I have to study English for the test. I think it relates to improve my speaking skill. Second, next summer I will take the teacher's test for elementary school. I want to pass the test. Third, I want to write good thesis. Finally, I want to go to Fiji with my friends and make a good memory.
In this class I found that we have same goal. This is to pass the teacher's test. We're going to take different prefecture, but I want to encourage each other.

After the class we met Kumaken san. He recommended useful book for thesis to us. He told us this book. Thank you so much!!!