Week+6B

Week 6B Today we moved onto the skill of reading. I thought i'd get the theory out of the way before I do my annotated review of activities which I found online. I've now completed all the theory for pronunciation, speaking, listening and reading and am looking forward to reviewing activities. That makes it sound a little like I don't like doing the theory part, which is entirely not true because despite the fact that it's a little boring i'm very comfortable with theory and enjoy learning new things. Surprisingly, however, it's not the new things which I found more exciting in this particular instance, but my realization that I now know enough to be able to readapt old knowledge to new things. Once this became apparent I decided to test myself by attempting to answer certain questions (such as the ones about different processing models across the various skills) before reading the answer in the text book and was pleased when I got it right. I also enjoyed the questions which asked for my personal opinion as I found that I am increasing able to answer them using teaching theory (without having to look it up) as well as my instincts. When I first started working on this part of the course I never imagined it would become an unconscious exercise in self-evaluation but it seems that this curriculum is just full of easter eggs:)