BELIEF AND FAITH

 People often interchangeabley use the word 'faith' and 'belief'. Actually those two words frequently are referred as synonyms in writing, but there seems slight different sense. To find out this slight difference between those two words I examined 100KWIC concordance lines from COCA(the Corpus Of Contemporary American English), and searched frequent used style of these words, collocation of those words from Word and Phrases. Those web-site reveals the phrases in which the expressions faith and belief usually occur in different kinds of writing style.
 According to the technique, belief seems more formal and academic words. the word belief is most frequently used in academic writing where as rarely used in spoken English. Following the 'Word and Phrase' program, it says Belief is used  17226 in academic English and 3289 in spoken English. faith is also commonly used in academic writing but it is more often used in magazine and also referred in spoken often as well. According to the web-site, faith is used 7636 in academic, 8917 in magazine. Also it is used in spoken language
 Also it has differences in terms of their sense of words. If someone uses the word 'faith', it is normally related with religion. For example, most common collocation of this words were christian and church, etc. On the other hands, the word belief is used not just for religious things but also for just common sense. For example, most common collocation of this words were
 
I examined 100 KWIC  concordance lines from The Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008-). This technique revealed typical phrases in which the expressions expect and look forward to usually occur.

A Defense of Teaching 'To a daughter leaching home'

  In the class of 'ELT English Essay', a professor conducted a survey 'Which poem( is the best among four candidates: 'To a daughter leaving home', 'The Chinese Grandmother', 'Fire and ice', 'The Red Hat'. Suprisingly, around 80% of Education major students chose 'To a daughter leaving home'. They defend their choice by suggesting several different reason.

  The most prevalent opinion the students suggested is that it is useful to foster learners' emotional factors. HayeongBack says it would touch their heart and face a turning point to go back to the parents(Back, 2015.09.29) MijungYoon also says it is easy topic in which the students could easily connect their own experiences to the poem. “Also, reading about family love would be a break time to students who are sick and tired of hard studying”(Yoon, 2015.09.29). In this point, HaramSung insists that this poem helps students learn empathy by ‘reminding students of the days when they were little’(Seong, 2015.09.29). I think a majority of others who chose other literaray material agree on this opinion.

  The bloggers also varies their opinions in terms of pedagogy. According to Sung, ‘To a Daughter Leaving Home’ is  pedagogically appropriate with the fairly challenging difficulty when we consider the Krashen’s comprehensible input(Sung 2015.09.29). Meanwhile, Back says it is going to give the learners a chance enhancing their creativity(Back 2015.09.29). As for Yoon, in terms that this poem has such a great rhetorical expression, it could be highly recommended to students(Yoon 2015.09.29).

 In summary, most of education major students chose ‘To a daughter leaving home’ as the best one among the several candidates. Those bloggers well represent why this poem has to be great material for teaching high school students in many sense.

Attribution

Haram, Sung (2015.9.29) “To A Daughter Leaving Home” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://sgtgingerlatte.blogspot.kr/

Mejeong, Yoon (2015.9.29) “To a Daughter Leaving Homet” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://mimimimijung.blogspot.kr

HaYeong, Back (2015.9.29) “To A Daughter Leaving Home” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from 100hy.blogspot.com

Importance of teaching good poem : 'To the daughter leaving home'

The more needs for whole-person education is required in our society, which insist students have to develop not only their intellectual ability, but also affective characteristics, the more teaching literature such as poems, literatures is being important. To meet the need in the society, it is significant to use good literary work. The work has to be educational, familiar and easy to be taught. As one of the most appropriate works for teaching high school students, I would like to recommend ‘To a daughter leaving home’.

First, the contents of this poem is educational and good for developing student’s affective characteristics. Basically this poem is describing the affection of parents in the point of view of mom. Because students have never been parents, it is crucial to drive them have a think of how their parents are thinking. In this sense, this poem is useful to give them a chance trying to look into how the parents are feeling and thinking towards their children. It could help students develop their empathy. Also they might increase their understanding ability by having a think of their parent’s mind.
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Second, the contents of this poem are familiar with students. Except for few students who lost their parent, or those who have never lived with their parent in since early age, most of the students are supposed to have experience concerning their family. Maybe, something just happened right before coming to class, because of waking them up or and having a breakfast stuff. These familiarity makes student approach this poem comfortably and do some activity teacher giving them actively

Lastly, in terms of pedagogical view, it is easy to activate their schema. To draw attention of student's interest and make them have self-awareness and responsible for their study, it is important to lead them actively participate in what they are taught. If the students have background knowledge or outline about what they are learning, they will be able to be trying to be understanding through schema. An array of they are doing like structuring and restructuring the original meaning through schema helps them take part in the lesson actively and this student-centered lesson leads student to have self-awareness of studying.

          To sum up, teaching literature is crucial for whole-human teaching, and it requires proper literary work. The poem ' To the daughter leaving home' is considered good content of teaching them. This is because it is educational, easy to teach sympathy  and helpful for student to have self-awareness in what they are learning.



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