Week 3

Back to MK2 for week 3. Mdm. Fouziah started the class by giving us the book "Teaching English in the Primary School" to everyone in the lab. It was indeed a great book for us as going-to-be ESL educators. We were then divided into group of 6 and each group was allocated one subtopic for the chapter one of the book - Working with young language learners.

These are the sub-topic:

1.1 Children's ability to grasp meaning

1.2 Children's creative use of limited language resources

1.3 Children's capacity for indirect learning

1.4 Children's instinct for play and fun

1.5 The role of imagination

1.6 The instinct for interaction and talk

We were called to read the sub-topic given, discuss and online to add on to the materials in the sub-topics. After one hour of discussion, the group leaders came out to draw lots. The first group presented on the ability of children in grasping what is being said to them even before they understand the individual words.