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How to make your English sound like Native Speaker. 

Leaning English in Taiwan, we can speak with fluency but it's still hard for us to make our English with accuracy. While studying in the US, I joined a program that help me to find my weakness in speaking English and find solutions to adjust my pronunciation. Meanwhile, I try different on-line recourses to make it better. 

I offered two materials for you to practice your English. First of all, it is called, "Echo Method" offered by Professor Karen. As a teacher, we did mechanical practice in class but sometimes we forgot to remind our students to LISTEN CAREFULLY and repeat. Second, ELSA SPEAK is an app, I recently used. It has seven days free trail so seize the time to practice.  

  回音法 (史嘉琳 Karen Steffen Chung )

Echo method 1. listen 2. wait 3. repeat

The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages create a roadmap to guide learners to develop competence to communicate effectively and interact with cultural competence to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world.

The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages define the central role of world languages in the learning career of every student. The five goal areas of the Standards establish an inextricable link between communication and culture, which is applied in making connections and comparisons and in using this competence to be part of local and global communities.

The five “C” goal areas (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) stress the application of learning a language beyond the instructional setting. The goal is to prepare learners to apply the skills and understandings measured by the Standards, to bring a global competence to their future careers and experiences.

   USE OF AUTHENTIC TEXTS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

  Interactive reading and listening comprehension tasks should be designed and carried out using authentic cultural texts of various kinds with appropriate scaffolding and follow-up tasks that promote interpretation. Authentic texts are defined as “written by members of a language and culture group for members of the same language and culture group” (Galloway, 1998, p. 133, as cited in Glisan). Scaffolding refers to the support provided for learners to promote acquisition of skills and concepts.  Follow-up tasks include activities that provide learners with the opportunity to apply or practice the new skill or concept.  

  Authentic materials provide real-life examples of language used in everyday situations. They can be used to add more interest for the learner. They can serve as a reminder to learners that there is an entire population who use the target language in their everyday lives. Authentic materials can provide information about the target culture and provide that culture’s perspective on an issue or event. The rich language found in authentic materials provides a source of input language learners need for acquisition.

  The interpretive mode is receptive communication and the learner must negotiate meaning with the document itself. Since the reader, viewer, or listener is using both content and context to interpret and comprehend what they are reading, viewing, or listening to, learners benefit from making meaning from  authentic cultural texts of various kinds with appropriate scaffolding and follow-up tasks that promote accurate interpretation.

Deal all

We are going to learn How to use position words to show something's location or an object's position. Also,  we are going to learn the sentence pattern, "Where is it?" Here we go. 

  positon words 

 GEOGRAPHY 

在__东边 = in the east  / 在__西边 = in the west   / 在__南边 = in the south  / 在__北边 = in the north    

Dear all

We are going to learn many places and some common verbs in Chinese. Also we are going to learn, "Where are you going?" in Chinese. 

 places 

学校 school / 图书馆 library / 火车站train station  / 巴士站 bus station / 游泳池 swimming pool / 超市 supermarket / 运动中心 sport center / 教堂 church / 寺庙 temple  / 剧院 theater / 市场 market / bath 澡堂 / 电影院 movie theater / 餐厅 restaurant / 健身房 fitness room  / 活动中心 activity center /  体育馆 gym / 礼堂 auditorium / 办公室 office / 博物馆 museum /  

 words  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fEMaCkLUmg