My love for writing grows!
The more I study language acquisition the more I find I love writing. I’m not sure why, entirely. Most of the reading has to do with acquiring vocabulary that later leads to writing. This makes sense to me. What doesn’t make sense to me is why I find my love of writing deepening as I learn about teaching students how to speak/learn a new language. In part, I suppose, writing is such a key point of communication for me that anything that makes it important makes it even more wonderful for me. And yet, I struggle to word my thoughts on this particular topic!
Overall, I enjoy the reading from my current course even if I don’t enjoy the projects. I don’t enjoy the discussions either, but I think that has more to do with feeling disconnected to the implementation of ideas. I’ve found that being in the classroom reaffirms what I’m learning. But it’s frustrating when the scheduling has to be done way too early in the course. I did my hours long before we really got in-depth in the course, so most of this stuff is hindsight now. That frustrates me! I’m certainly not against reflection as a means of growing. I just feel that the rushed scheduling of hours at the beginning of the class is detrimental for the hands on experience that we need. Rather, I felt it was too rushed and that I knew too little to be genuinely effective as a teacher or as an observer.
As I mentioned, I love the reading. It’s all about acquiring language and helping students learn English. It’s fantastic because I enjoy the study of linguistics and hope to devote more time to it later in my life. For some reason, also previously mentioned, it really makes me love writing more. It’s the first time in my program that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the reading and it’s been a really long time since I’ve appreciated a text book as much as I appreciate the two I have for this class. Off the top of my head, I’d say the last time was probably during my bachelor’s in which I got to read all the myths I wanted! And of course, studying Japanese was absolutely fantastic too.
That reminds me, I’ve been slowly working on a bucket list of things I want to do on vacations when I’m a teacher. Or things that I want to do at least once before I die.
1. Learn Italian
2. Learn to Play the Violin
3. Learn Japanese (study it much more extensively, rather)
4. Learn Spanish (a good career move)
5. Learn American Sign Language
6. Donate Blood
As you can see a lot of the things I’d like to do is learn new languages! I really enjoy it. They’re more or less in order of things I’d like to do, though violin/Italian are things I would love to do so much I almost can’t stand that I have to keep putting them off (time and money are not kind currently)! I’m also not sure I can donate blood since it’s been theorized that I am anemic. I have to check on that.
Overall, I enjoy the reading from my current course even if I don’t enjoy the projects. I don’t enjoy the discussions either, but I think that has more to do with feeling disconnected to the implementation of ideas. I’ve found that being in the classroom reaffirms what I’m learning. But it’s frustrating when the scheduling has to be done way too early in the course. I did my hours long before we really got in-depth in the course, so most of this stuff is hindsight now. That frustrates me! I’m certainly not against reflection as a means of growing. I just feel that the rushed scheduling of hours at the beginning of the class is detrimental for the hands on experience that we need. Rather, I felt it was too rushed and that I knew too little to be genuinely effective as a teacher or as an observer.
As I mentioned, I love the reading. It’s all about acquiring language and helping students learn English. It’s fantastic because I enjoy the study of linguistics and hope to devote more time to it later in my life. For some reason, also previously mentioned, it really makes me love writing more. It’s the first time in my program that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the reading and it’s been a really long time since I’ve appreciated a text book as much as I appreciate the two I have for this class. Off the top of my head, I’d say the last time was probably during my bachelor’s in which I got to read all the myths I wanted! And of course, studying Japanese was absolutely fantastic too.
That reminds me, I’ve been slowly working on a bucket list of things I want to do on vacations when I’m a teacher. Or things that I want to do at least once before I die.
1. Learn Italian
2. Learn to Play the Violin
3. Learn Japanese (study it much more extensively, rather)
4. Learn Spanish (a good career move)
5. Learn American Sign Language
6. Donate Blood
As you can see a lot of the things I’d like to do is learn new languages! I really enjoy it. They’re more or less in order of things I’d like to do, though violin/Italian are things I would love to do so much I almost can’t stand that I have to keep putting them off (time and money are not kind currently)! I’m also not sure I can donate blood since it’s been theorized that I am anemic. I have to check on that.