Learning Circle for 6/Oct.

Group Members: Irene, Laia, Monica, Sean

Summary:
Although, our group members are from very different countries, we were taught in similar ways when acquiring L2. So, we do not have many differences to point out. Our teachers put a lot of emphasis on grammar rather than on the rest of areas of the language, writing and reading also received more attention than listening or speaking. And as most of the L2 learners, we were passive learners, absorbing teacher’s input.

No matter learning in Spain or in Taiwan,initially, teacher always is the center of a class and during courses L1 play as a assitant tool when we learning L2. Therefore, the teacher would use the same way to teach.

Regarding the teacher’s respond to student errors, we would like to mention that when one learns an L1 parents will not correct each error that the child utters, but unfortunately this is the case in most of the L2 classrooms, the teacher would immediately correct every mistake that the learner makes and this would lead the student to a loss of motivation and confidence.