TESOL Seminar at
Worldbridge
Today was a seminar
day with about twenty local Indonesian teachers. Ibu Jan taught the seminar, which was focused
on how to help English learners acquire the language better. Although today was a really long day of class
and learning, I really enjoyed working alongside of the Indonesian
teachers. My partner, Mexi, was another
musician who teaches in a school we will be visiting next week, and it was
awesome to share some of my music with him.
We both come from very different backgrounds, so it was great to hear
what his English language learning process was like. We were both able to share contact
information so we can keep in touch after the seminar as well. At the seminar today, we talked about many
different theories of how students develop language. I was able to relate many of these to my
previous language experience. I took
Spanish for three years in high school, and I did not enjoy learning language
because my teacher did not use proper strategies in her teaching. The seminar today helped me to realize some
common misconceptions in my thinking and how I can help change those as I begin
to teach language acquisition. 
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