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Since I taught a class of introducing English songs in my hometown, I'd had some problems on how to teach my students singing. In the class, all I could do was to teach them the background information of the songs and word to word pronunciation. Then I would ask my students to follow the demo CD which I bought from music stores singing together again and again. They would express much interested in learning and singing the songs at the beginning. Soon after they were absent the classes gradully. And the classe ended up with few students from 36 people. This situation made me feel frustrated. Therefore, I tried to find out other methods of teaching. Finally,I found the songs I chose to teach were to difficult to learn both on pronuciation and melodies. Besides, we didn't have much interactions among the students and the teacher in the class. As the result, I made my mind to change my teaching methodology accroding to the following points.

1. I bought an electronic piano and started to take the piano lessons in August in order to back up my music background. Actually, I was quite happy because after one month I could play the song 'Unchained Melody' very well. And I also performed it in front of the class. My students loved it very much.

2. I attended dancing class in the first monthes of 2010. Then, I put some dancing activities in my class with the songs I taught together. In this way, we could have some interactions in class.

3. I would use some videos to introduce the background information of the songs and the singers in class instead of using handout by teacher-oriented. And they love the media tools which I showed them in class.

I am so happy. The number of the students in class has improved a lot. And all my efforts are worth. I think I would keep learning the piano and the dance lessons hard in the near future. They are really good tools to dynamic my classes.

我美麗的TESOL同班同學

西方人生觀

6月29日

林茂松教授：人生的意義不在結果而在過程。就像海明威的名著《老人與海》中，老人出海捕魚，
故事的重心不在於是否有帶回一條大魚賣了很多錢，而是老人與大魚搏鬥的過程，這就是人生的
一種體現。」「另外，托爾斯泰曾寫過一篇《兩兄弟的故事》，有兩兄弟在耕田時挖到一塊石板，
上面說如果照著上面的指示去做就會有不平凡的遭遇，哥哥覺得現在生活得很幸福不想要冒險；
但是弟弟卻想要去試試，就跟著石板的指示，結果當上了國王又變成乞丐再回到故鄉去，兩兄弟的
結果雖然一樣都是終老故鄉，但是弟弟當過國王也當過乞丐，他的人生是0+1-1=0，哥哥則是
0+0-0=0。哥哥最後的0與弟弟最後的0並不相同。人生在世，到底要過哥哥那種滿足現狀一成
不變的生活，還是要過弟弟那種勇於接受各種挑戰的生活？這個故事所要彰顯的意義就是西方的
人生觀：『人生的意義是在過程而不是結果。』(摘至敦煌網站6.29.2006)
How about Taiwanese people?

Feel Happy at the Moment

Wow, what a relief after handing in the SLA assignment.
Mmmmm, I can enjoy an easy life now!
Time for play!!!! -2006.06.13