a) Language camp is really a good time for the participants to have fun and at the same time learn the language. There would be a great number of things learned by the participants, via the games and the activities. I personally think that the camp would be more "sustainable" if the participants can learn something more useful and practical for their daily communication, particularly something on basic survivor language use. For example, greetings, introducing oneself, asking for directions, asking for help and so on. This is to help them learn something basic in the language as the first step to express themselves in English. (Remember the things we learn in French? Those are something for basic communication)
b) I noticed that some of the participants really showed great enthusiasm in learning English. They took initiatives to speak in the language, putting aside their "issues of losing of face" when they spoke broken English. I was particularly moved when one of the group members kept "bothering" me with the lines he had in mind for the drama (I manage to attend him patiently). Even though it took him a long time to say out what he intended to express (through English), he did not give up using the language. My suggestion is that, if possible, facilitators are given chances (or I can say, ficilitators should grasp every single chance) to share with the participants about their own journey of learning English. I am sure that some of us have also gone through hard time developing the ability in English. Perhaps our sharings would motivate and inspire the participants to move on in learning the language.
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