#10: How would you like to be taught English? What is the role of the student-teacher? How could we make sure everyone is involved?

#10: How would you like to be taught English? What is the role of the student-teacher? How could we make sure everyone is involved?

On March 9, we re-write a contents of commuity service. We focus on the student's site in duscussion. I thought how I would like to be taught English if I were student. I want to study the basic steady before starting the reading, speaking and writing. It is fact taht vocabulary is very important factor to study English, but I think that a thing which makes vocabularies become phrase is grammar. Our duty is to teach English basicaly to let our parents talk with teachers, not to teach difficult vocabularies. It is also a role of person teaching anything. Things we can do for our parents are to be earnestness for them, and not to let them hate English.

Blog #9: What we did today. What do you think about planning to teach a language lesson?

We discussed about “Teaching Plan” and “Language Lesson Plan” in Value Class on three March. We told about how we are going to teach English to Our parents. In especially, Teaching Plan’s contents are the way of teaching English and particular words. In the other hand, Language Lesson Plan’s contents are to choose language to learn and communicate, and preparations of lesson from beginning to end.

According to them, I thought a vocabulary list and a configuration of grammar are the important for this service learning. What is necessary to read the sentence? Sentence is made words, words are vocabulary. Sentence has a role, that role is the grammar. It is impossible to understand the meaning of sentence without them. Therefore, I think we have to teach side by side between the vocabulary list and the configuration of grammar for our parents.

#7 What happened in class today and what you think about

On February 19th, our group shared community service proposal with other group, then others gave as important information what we made mistake. Ms. Jo Anne gave us advice that we need to change the date. In fact that I will leave on march 13, therefore I cannot say strongly anything, Haruna decided to start our community service project on March 21 to May 2. ecently girls planned anything without discussion with men. When I was about to ask anything, they may say that men did not anything. I understand that we have problem which more dangerous than fault of community service because it cannot be success unless we cooperate. In last class I decided to make communication with them. And our goal is to let parents read and understand parent's association and student activity and event in English.

I participated community service activities on last Saturday. It was to treat Thai children who want to study English. I left from school at 10:15 am, so I could not do it for long time. But I saw that they satisfied to come school. I think it is good.

#6 Reflection on the last class

Our group received a lot of useful information from Ms. Jo Anne and classmates to start the community service project proposal in value class. We filled up points which we needed for being good community service. Because our plan had some faults of chosen ESLRs. We did put Caring global Citizens up, even though there are only Japanese. According to it, we cannot achieve it. In addition, we except for girls must understand that our biggest mistake is that we depended on Haruna. She made up most of plan, and strategies and way of it. We must discuss more and more. She said that our ESLRs must change to "The effective communicator in English" and "Team Player." Both strategies are that we must do it positively and activity. And we must change way of teaching English. Being easy to understand is the most important to study anything, we did not notice what we study in RIST. English and Japanese are same language: therefore, I think that using English for everyday is necessary key to learn English. However, we must think Japanese mothers’ life. Balance of life and study is also important. "The effective communicator in English" and "Team Player" indicate that we must cooperate together. We want to aim to good ending of everybody,

5. community service proposal

Last class, we've planed to teach English for Japanese mothers as our community service topic. As for the program, we will teach Basic English and how to do the conversation with teachers in RIST for one hour or one four half on per Sunday at place where they can assemble like a Sukhmvit. The cost of the lesson is 100 bath, we planned to use it for a charity. The reason why we teach English to them is that Japanese mothers said that they are always suffering from an interview face to face with teachers when they go to school since they cannot speak and listen what they say well. I think being facility of their ability to use English surely get in connect with good relationship between Japanese mothers and teachers. In your plan, we will teach English with dictionary and short stories to being understood easily for them. According to ESLRs, we always have to think how we can help people be international. In my group, we most use Caring Global Citizen, Self-Directed learner, and Complex Thinker. In my international person is man/woman who does not have cultural bias and listen what others tell exactly and speak what want to tell. We think Caring Global Citizen, Self-Directed learner and Complex Thinker are necessary to be so and for their Needs.
The needs, we hope we will meet getting through to, is a mutual understanding between people without borderline of countries. I experienced that language is just tool of telling and knowing what the other and I think, so obtaining a tool is what Japanese mother want.

#4 What have I found out about my community's needs? Re-write

In values class, we discussed what our community need in the group. I was dusccussing with Taku, Yuka, Haruna, and Ayaka aboutcommunity service. As a result of our discussion, we planned to teach English to our parents. According to interview as our parents, they said they want to study English to be able to do conversation in English for they need to speak English when they go to the school. According to our discussion, we decided to be going to teach them on every Sunday and about for 1 hour or 1 hour and half. Regarding the place to teach, we planned the best places is the student’s house All Japanese student lives in Sukhumvit Road, so they and we can assemble easily. And assembling at the student’s place can decrease the waste of a cost. The cost that they can pay is about 50 baht to 100 baht. After we interviewed and discussed about them, we started discussing about how to teach English to them. We planed that we teach the basic vocabulary and conversation in using English which we use in RIST and we would like to use the picture and short stories. Of course, they are still not even the beginner of English learner, so they can use dictionary in English to Japanese. We want they enjoy studying English.

3, Needs of my Community

My group; Ayaka, Haruna, me, Taku, Yuka in value’s class discussed about the Needs and Gap analysis for teaching English to Thai workers in RIST, and then I thought how I can contribute myself for my community. Those who are parents mostly do not have ability to speak and use English, thus, we made decision and planned a program use our experience in English life for them. We have experiences which is a being thought English by Japanese teachers and foreigners. Therefore, we have more ways to teach it than people who do not have such experiences. In fact and according to our survey, Japanese parents want to learn English for they have probabilities to teach Englishness articles or events. As the beginning and end of each term, they have to go school and face to teachers, so it is not wondering that they want to learn one. In addition, some of them would like to make foreign friends. Fortunately all they live in Sukhumvit, we can assemble at same place easily. As for the way of teaching, we infer that a teaching basic vocabulary, using picture and using dictionary as they read kind story of book are necessary for the beginning of English learner. Parents said that they can pay until 100bath per lesson, and hope one to one half ours on Sunday. We plan that the lesson is at someone’s house, it’s for a decreasing expenses of materials. We want to be happy by knowing English, for that, we want to achieve exactly it.