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This unit is a breakthrough after the first unit. It shows a picture of what I was very eager to see about the methodologies, rationales and the approaches to the various methodologies that an instructor would need in teaching the English as foreign language. Teaching is in any regards no doubt a customized process. No method is the best one for all learners and for same learners in all different circumstances. Customizing teaching would stand as the best strategy for each of any given groups. However, no matter what methodology is used and what learning group it is for the key approach would be first to stimulate learners’ interest and get them engaged before the teaching process starts and before the teaching-learning connection is anticipated. Without learners’ engagement, any teaching would turn to a fruitless, time consuming, sometimes even a chaotic event.
Once the importance of engaging students is acknowledged, the instructor can utilize the customized ice breaking methods to attract learners’ desires for subsequent exploration. After the learners were led to the “door”, they would become very eager to see what is next and what will be taught soon. Then the teaching will very likely become spontaneous and the learning very active and sustainable. The harmonized connection between teaching and learning would automatically commence and grow. The sessions would become very productive and memorable.
The unit talked about quite a few strategies to exercise the teaching methodologies. One of the key technique is the ESA which states for Engage, Study and Activate. This teaching philosophy was brought up by Mr. Jeremy Harmer. In the ESA, Mr. Harmer not only described the rationales how important to first engage learners, but also stated specifically that in this stage, instructor should not attempt to teach anything. In another word, in this stage, teaching is not important, instead, clicking students’ curiosity and reducing their stress are the most important elements of the teaching-learning process. The ESA strategy also indicated that in the Activate stage, the instructor should focus on students’ fluency more than accuracy. This makes sense as the learners should get input of what they are expected to learn, retain and be able to use what they learnt before the accuracy is more realistically emphasized. Accuracy may even take several sessions, or quite some time, to achieve.
Overall, this unit addressed varieties of methodology of teaching English and the key approach which would be the ESA for each methodology. In addition, under the strategy of ESA, the unit described some specific techniques and ideas for each of the three steps. After studying this unit, I feel that the teaching principles, suggestions presented in this unit are very necessary and practical which all together make this unit one of the very valuable tools for the English teaching.
