PREFACE TO THE PROGRAM BOOK
It has been a very long time since I participated in my first language camp as a facilitator. It was a commercial language camp in which participants had to pay RM100 fee. I discovered that the participants enjoyed the activities as much as I did designing and facilitating them. I cannot even remember the exact date but I am sure it was more than 4 years ago. Since then, I have implemented the language camp activities in many other community services involving children. I strongly believe, while language camp activities are fun and exciting for the students, they can seriously develop positive attitude toward language learning itself. For this particular camp, we tried our best to prepare games that are simple enough so that the participants can play them repeatedly at home with friends without the supervision of teachers. Perhaps, the school teachers here can also take the games and adapt them to fit your own classroom needs. At the same time, I really appreciate if the school teachers can show the facilitators from UTM some teaching tips in executing effective and successful English lessons. Through this language camp, I hope TESL students of UTM will gain experiences on how to teach and deal with real school children. Lastly, I wish to say thank you to the school administration for volunteering to host this language camp.