Monday, February 2, 2009
February 2, 2009
I thought that Thea and Rachel did an awesome job on their presentation. I found many of their points when they asked the question of “why” interesting. The reason is because if I was to ask someone for their notes and if they said no; I would not ask them why. I agree with Mariya and Esther’s why they too would not ask the question why. What I found that was nice to know was the different reasons why native speaker may not want to share their notes to non- native speakers. It is nice to know that at least there are nice people out there =) and that what the book said Thea, Rachel, and other students disagree with it. Although I did not speak much in our conversation, it was a learning experience for me. I did not know much about “double- dipping”. I agree with many of the reasons why people are or are not comfortable double- dipping. I really liked JoAnn’s reason which was that it really depends on the relation of the two people too. Personally, I do not mind double- dipping and I feel good when someone is willing to eat off what I was eating or share something with me. It just shows me that this person didn’t mind that I was eating it before them. The activity of practicing for our unit plan really clarified many questions that I might have had. I had a great group and it helps me understand more what I am supposed to do in my real unit plans.
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I also learned a lot about cultural behaviors and reasons why people do what they do in this week's class. I think that's one of the greatest benefits that we non-native speakers get when we immerse ourselves in the L2 culture. This also brings me to the idea that in second language teaching, it always helps to either implicitly or explicitly include cultural explanations into the learning materials and tell students why native speakers behave/talk to each other in certain ways, so that these pieces of information will stick to their heads and stay with them longer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mai that cultural explanations from native speakers are really important since what many native speakers do or say may seem strange or arbitrary to many non-native speakers. I would've liked to hear more things about non-native English speakers' cultures though, like the example of not caring about double-dipping that Chaomi gave in her blog, because the native English speakers in our class like to talk too much sometimes and they hog the conversation.
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