Wednesday 14th December, 2011
I just finished reading through my notes for SLA and ICC. My head is swimming. We really covered a lot of different material over the past 15 weeks. In particular, for SLA there are so many different theories. I realised when I was reading my notes that I have already forgotten a lot of them and so much more besides; especially from the first five weeks. This is very annoying – I wish my memory was better! I studied so hard for the SLA exam in week six and now so much has slipped right out of my memory. I will have to do some revision during my winter vacation period.
Overall, I think SLA has been the most ‘academically’ demanding aspect of the course. There are so many different theories and ideas, some of which can seem a little abstract or not directly applicable to my actual classroom. I will definitely have to go back over all the reading at some point. Reading my notes today was interesting though. I was especially looking for things I could relate to my teaching practice as per the aims of the final presentation. In the end I think I found the things I want to talk about.
Reading my ICC notes was interesting too. Although there is significantly less material from ICC due to the reduced amount of class time, I believe this class has fundamentally changed how I think of my job as a teacher. It has also changed how I want to approach being a teacher.
For both ICC and SLA there an abundance of writers, ideas and concepts I want to investigate further now that the course is drawing to a close. I am really looking forward to delving into some of the areas we talked about in class on my own time and at my leisure.
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