I'm trying to spend as much of the limited camp budget on dictionaries that can be used by all the students, year round. We have no dictionaries and my CT with 12yrs experience and an MA seems to think I'm being a bit odd by making the students use picture dictionaries to learn new words by themselves instead of asking us "How do you spell chicken?" or "What is '똥' in English?"50X a day.
Look, I assume you're talking Oxford Picture Dictionary? Those are great books. I have used them too. But I also recognize that it is 2021 and maybe 20 of them might be a dated approach.I mean, if you really want to go old-school, buy 20 copies of Minjung's Essence. Pictures are just a poor substitute for imagination and critical thinking, right?
Old school? No, my friend, I'm talking pedagogical strategies that are being used, right now, around the world. From a Structuralist approach, which I'm a proponent of, learners rely on MKOs to learn with the Zone of Proximal Development. MKOs need not be a person, particularly as I only have around 40min per week per class, I have minimal one on one time with learners.Picture dictionaries are accessible , convenient and pragmatic MKOs for learners in an ESL class, even in 2021:- They free up the teacher's time- They work in both a low and high affective filter environments/learners- They encourage a proactive approach and learner-learner centred language development, which should make up around 80% of activities, according to the Communicative Approach, which I adopt where possible in this broken excuse of a curriculum.Furthermore, I've been regularly using these dictionaries at my other schools, in a variety of ways, since the beginning of the year. The results have been fantastic.
Instead of asking for a bit more information, you jumped the gun and went all Captain Planet.
2) Although we aren't discussing this, if you would care to link on this thread your lesson plans and published research, particularly in relation to these picture dictionaries, to help us teachers, that would be great!
2) Again, linking your lesson plans involving those picture dictionaries might help us evaluate how effective they are. You're the one blasting your CT for wasteful spending, while trumpeting the extraordinary results, while saying demanding evidence or research, I think you should offer some up as well.
Yeah, but I still get to go mask-free on my walk to work tomorrow morning, so ...
Not anymore:"Wearing masks will remain mandatory even for fully vaccinated people in the greater Seoul area as the lifting of lockdown has been kicked into the long grass. The reversal comes as daily infections rose above 700 again and officials panic about coronavirus variants."http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2021/07/05/2021070500762.html
Koreans head into summer with prospects of ever harsher social distancing instead of more freedom earlier promised by political leaders and health officials.http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210707000868Korea “may need to consider the toughest degree of social distancing, if the COVID-19 situation does not improve in the next two or three days.” Under the country’s updated social distancing scheme, the strictest measures mean no more than two people can socialize at once past 6 p.m.
Korean websites or any website for that matter with a ****** USA flag for English language option. **** off. Why don't they just use abc instead of a flag?
No more gang bangs after 6pm. : (
Two big mistakes made recently. One is to ease the regulations when only 30% of the population received one dose. And the other one is the hesitation now.
This meme always gets a chuckle out of me:
While it is fun. It's actually misleading. If you look at which country more and more develops new words and also injects technical terminology and academic lingo into its vernacular, it is undoubtedly the United States. In fact, if you look at terms that are used for things, particularly those that are recently developed, American English appears to place a greater emphasis on distinction and concept.I mean 'elevator vs. lift' and 'parking lot vs. car park' Someone sure is simplified and it's not the Americans.