Children's Secrets of successful learning!
Children might have some secrets of success: not monitoring themselves too much, not analyzing grammar, not being too worried about their egos, shedding inhibitions, not letting the native language interfere much, I am going to put those secrets to use in your own learning.
In my opinion, some of the positive factors of SLA of children could be available for adult learners, and others could not for them. Therefore, to begin with, I would like to separate those factors depending on the possibility of use. As for adults, having their native language not to be interfered is not possible, as long as they totally forget their mother tongue language, while learning, or they just accumulate their knowledge of target language separated from their first language, which is not only impossible but also inefficient. On the other hand, not monitoring themselves too much, not analyzing grammar, not being too worried about their egos, shedding inhibitions could be used in my own learning. Among those secrets, I would like to choose two factors to consider.
First is not analyzing grammar. Analysing grammar starts from the process trying to translate the language. This is because, if the learners approach the language on structural(or behavioristic) basis, they are likely to focus on the form of language. To prevent this, the learner should be able to study, and be taught in a communicative approach. Personally, I would like to adapt this notion to me like next. First, I can try to see language as itself. Basically, the Korean and English have a totally different order in a sentence. This is why in the process of translation, Korean reads English backward. However, by trying to read the English straightforward regardless the difference between Korean and English in terms of a form of language.
Second is not being too worried about their egos. I have a fun story about learning English. The personality such as inactiveness, thinking a lot (rather than speaking a lot), are considered as bad for language learners. As I reckon, those personalities depend on my worries about my egos. Because I studied English education already, I knew what I am supposed to do in the class to learn quickly. Even though I had known this, I had been reluctant to be active and talk enough in class. However, one day, I got a chance to get into a class where there is no one that I know. In the class, a thing comes to my mind is ‘no one knows me in this class anyway, why don’t I become the one that I would hope to be in the class?’. I just put it into practice in no time without being worried about my ego and was able to be an ideal student at the class.
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