Throughout my teaching journey, I have experienced that integrating multilingual pedagogy, communicative approaches, and technological tools are valuable to language learning. Additionally, while creating lessons and tasks, I seek for authentic materials and real-life content that would appeal to students’ interests for class activities, tasks, and assignments. Finally, I strive to provide optimal learning environments for students with individual preferences and goals in hopes of helping them preserve their motivation and positive attitude.
How do I promote proficiency? I believe that multilingual pedagogy and communicative competence are useful ways to promote language proficiency. I often strongly negotiated in utilizing these approaches to create a greater multilingual community and communication practice in a way that would support students’ target language learning process rather than disrupt it.
How do I engage and motivate learners? One of the most important things I try to do is lesson student stress and anxiety in the classroom. I realize how these aspects negatively impact student acquisition and learning journey. That is why I incorporate different tasks, assessments, and feedback methods that hopefully do not add onto students' stress. That will often set a good foundation for learners to begin creating their own internal motivation as well.
How do I teach grammar and vocabulary? In many language classes, I aim to incorporate student-centered tasks and collaborative activities, rather than only focusing on teacher-centered lessons. I believe that student engagement is essential when teaching grammar and vocabulary, and teachers should also be encouraged to use a range of different tools to do so.
How do I raise intercultural awareness? In the past, culture was never the main focus of my language classrooms. However, it is evident that intercultural awareness is an extremely important concept to cover in language classrooms. Once in a while, I aim to teach lessons in which culture is the main focus, rather than explicit instruction of language. When culture becomes the main focus of the classroom, it encourages students to widen their interculturalities.
ACTFL World-Readiness Standards
Interagency Language Roundtable Scale
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) - Resource Center