All of us agree that making the English class interesting is an effective way to comfort the student’s fear and increase their motivation of learning foreign languages. However, because of the Taiwan’s educational environment, it seems that “test results” and “star schools” are the only things that parents and schools concerned most. Even though the teachers know how to make the English class interesting and meaningful, they couldn’t do everything they are thinking .Most of time, they have to follow the policy of the government.However, I never forgive my dream of being a teacher and I try to build up my teaching philosophy－As we know that language is an important tool to know the thinking of each other and acquire the knowledge or information from other countries, we can’t ignore the importance of learning languages in this modern society. Consequently, I will tell my students to be active to learn English. Besides the school, they can build their own language environment to improve the abilities of 4 skills from various ways:
for listen and speaking－songs, movies, TV shows, news…
for reading and writing－children books, magazines, literatures…
Active attitude and correct methods are the key factors being success, and the learning effect is definitely related to your attitude and the methods. Test result is just temporary, how much you get from the learning process is permanent.
Just because we expect our students to be active doesn’t mean they would learn actively and independently automatically. Rather, we need to use different strategies to teach them how to learn on their own. Here in Taiwan, perhaps because of the pressure from the exams, we usually adopt the most convenient way to teach: “teacher-centered paradigm,” which contributes to students’ passiveness in the end. What a pity, isn’t it? Then, what can we do to make a change? Are we brave to break the traditional way to teaching?