First of all, I feel glad that our Language Camp 2012 has started and ended successfully. Thanks to everyone for their hard work and cooperation. I believe that this is the first time we've worked together as a class. Despite our differences, somehow we've managed to complete this task given to us by Mr Ghazali and even done a good job at that. Agree? =)
I would like to share some of my thoughts regarding the language camp.
For your information, I took part in UTMSpace MyEnglish Camp as a facilitator few weeks ago. The camp was joined by secondary school students who were mostly in lower secondary forms (e.g. Form 1-3) and there were also a few students who were in Form 4. What I had observed was that those students reacted quite differently from the participants of our Language Camp. The secondary school students were mostly passive and they needed more encouragement from the facilitators before they were willing to speak up. Plus they preferred and were more comfortable with Malay language and they felt shy at using English. On the other hand, the university students that we met last Saturday were much more confident in using English compared to the secondary students that I met during MyEnglish Camp. I was awed by the differences. It showed that someday those students would grow up to be better and more confident as English language users. It kinda made me ponder what could have caused these changes in a person just in a few years' time. Is it because of the teaching that he has received from his language teachers? Or can it be due to other reasons?
For your information, I took part in UTMSpace MyEnglish Camp as a facilitator few weeks ago. The camp was joined by secondary school students who were mostly in lower secondary forms (e.g. Form 1-3) and there were also a few students who were in Form 4. What I had observed was that those students reacted quite differently from the participants of our Language Camp. The secondary school students were mostly passive and they needed more encouragement from the facilitators before they were willing to speak up. Plus they preferred and were more comfortable with Malay language and they felt shy at using English. On the other hand, the university students that we met last Saturday were much more confident in using English compared to the secondary students that I met during MyEnglish Camp. I was awed by the differences. It showed that someday those students would grow up to be better and more confident as English language users. It kinda made me ponder what could have caused these changes in a person just in a few years' time. Is it because of the teaching that he has received from his language teachers? Or can it be due to other reasons?
I personally hope that what we've witnessed in those students are indeed the products of the teaching from their dedicated language teachers in the past. It just shows that we, language teachers, play a very important role in developing our student's proficiency level and shaping up their confidence in using English.
Next semester we're finally gonna have our teaching practical. We all know that it's not going to be easy. But still, all the best to everyone and let's strive on no matter what happens! =)
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