Senior Project Reflection

1.I am most proud of keeping my audience entertained especially with my activities because they learned different words in another language and also a bit of thier culture and why they say it like that. They were also entertained by my posters that said hello in six different languages.

2.(a)  P+ because i met requirements and my 2 hour was very enjoyable by everyone.

2.(b) P because so far i've done well on my interview and my research and i feel that if i did good on those then the rest has to be even better.

3. Having the research to back up what i have to say and knowing that i did an i-search paper made my 2 hour much easier and felt that i had a script the whole time.

4. The 3-column chart because it sarted too early and would have been better to have them after the i-search paper because i can get my info like that.

5. Knowing a lot about language acquisition has made me get into language more and i would like to translate for people not only as a job but to help them achive the language too. I want to be able to help people who have trouble pronunciating or writing a language because thats how its going to be in the future. Many people will know more than two languages instead of one and thats one achivement i hope to see in my future

2-Hour Presentation

2 hour lesson plan

Answer 3

Eq= What is the best way to learn a second language?
 There are many people living in the US and English is their second language. So how is it that all those people come to learn the language? I believe that people learn a second language best by the environment they are surrounded by. Like English is used in every place; at school, in work, restaurants, banks and so on. Just about anywhere or what you read is english. For example, since spanish is my native language, I learned english by watching tv and learned in school. How I progressed is by talking to my peers and siblings. Other people like children learn by mimicking a person or something on tv which is still the environment.

http://www.asha.org/publications/leader/2008/080212/f080212a.htm

http://www.education.com/reference/article/how-children-learn-second-language/

Room Creativity

1. I plan to have as many posters all around the room of different ways to say hello.
2. For answer 1 , I would llike to teach them an alphabet of a language for practice. My second answer, I still dont know what to do for motivation.

Answer 2

EQ= What is the best way to learn a second language?
Answer 2= Motivation is the key to learning a second language
Evidence=

1. There are two types of motivation instrumental and Intregitive motivation. intregitive is to actually wanting to study the language while instrumental is to have it for a neccesity.
2. A child is most likely to learn because of their motivation of acquiring things before the age of 5. Compared to an adult, some lack motivation and just want to learn it as a neccesity.
3.  Even when babies are learning their first language, it means that they want to learn it and start out by mimicking and babbling and so motivation is there too.

Sources= http://iteslj.org/Articles/Norris-Motivation.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/how-young-children-learn-language
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/ncrcds04.html

Presentaion 2 Rough Draft

Link to Rough Draft 2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zRAvROkE6ljigE8boZ3wv9_886jAQL7xJThipdKff18/edit

Answer 1

1. Learning a language means  to practice everyday, at least and hour, with someone who knows the language at intermediate level.
2. When it comes to learning anything new, you always need practice. This type of practice is to learn the alphabet and how to use the rules with someone who actually knows the language instead of just mimiking a person. Mimiking doesn't always work because your not learning how its spelled or even know the definition. You would just know the word verbaly. An Article I found called "Learning two Languages" says that  you can practice through hearing CD's or Language Programs to help along the way. And as always not everyone learns at the same pace but kids tend to learn it faster than others. An example I like the most is my mom, she took classes to learn english but only learned a few things and at times forgets some words. As opposed to my cousin who is only 3, is bilingual and can talk pretty well. The only thing is that he doesnt know how to spell words other than his name and learned through mimiking what other people would say.
3. I found this website very heplful in answering my eq. http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/BilingualChildren.htm 

Presentation Reflection

1. The interview hepled me explain what I was going to present on and also hepled me use an example. I know my topic is still kindergarten teacher but for that day i decided to go into detail about the types of kids who are in the classroom. I said that there was kids with disabilities in the class with the rest of the kids who dont have a disability. For my exaple I used a small story that the interviewer told me about a kid who has a hearing problem. So when someone talks and everyone is able to hear across the room, the child will get irritated and cover his ears.

2. I think that my visual stood out the most becuase it was a picture of my little sister and she has a disability and so I knew what i was talking about so I felt confident.

3. Calming down becuase I knew what to say and how it was gonna go but when i stood up there, my hands were shaking really bad and I forgot to say some things. Also being confident in what i was going to say becuase then you would have to back it up.