If you have been keeping up with my blog, you are probably aware that my second independent component is teaching my sister's best friend's little brother, Lawrence, English. Unfortunately, I was not able to visit him much through-out this month of March due to a three-week long discrepancy between my sister and her friend and my busy schedule. However, I do plan on meeting with Lawrence tomorrow and at least record his knowledge on the English language. I'm kind of excited to see him since I haven't visited the Paje family in a whole month.
I've started reading this book called Beyond Methods my first interviewee, Aaron Salinger, Spanish teacher at Mt. Sac, lend to me. It's just this book that elaborates on ways to making learning a second language fun for any age, whether the student is 5 or 50 (probably not 50 though because whoa. that is too old to be learning.). I'll try to use the methods referenced in this book to teach Lawrence how to speak English.
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| My sister and I smelling the genius coming from Beyond Methods. |
I also found some tagalog-english children stories I can read to him, which will help connect Tagalog words to English words since the translation is already on the page. I'm kind of excited to (finally) start my independent component. :]
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