While I was reading the book this morning, it just came to me that I should be able to use children books like Kiss The Cow with my adults students who are L2 learners. This book in particular focuses on past tense verbs as well as comparative and superlative adjectives. A lot of children books tend to have one particular theme or lesson to learn with specific focus on sentence structures or certain genre of vocabulary, which might fit perfectly for L2 language learners. I would like to start exploring this possibility of using children books for adult L2 learners.
On the subject of children books, I would like to say that I'm happy that I have learned about all the resources about online books. I had an opportunity to teach one particular class where all my students were mothers who would like to learn how to read English story books to their children, which is by the way a fascinating teaching experience for me. Back then, I wasn't aware of all the resources that we have. In fact, maybe there were not as many back then. However, I'll be able to plan and teach the class with a brand new pedagogy should I be given the opportunity to teach the same class again. I actually would love to teach again knowing what I have known now. :-)
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Diana, I love how in your blogs you are able to connect things in class with real class examples and experiences. I enjoy your insight about your adult L2 learners as that's something I'm not familiar with myself. I also love all of the online resources with books. I've shared many of those sites with my sister who has a two-year-old son. He's really enjoyed interacting with Mommy's computer.
ReplyDeleteThat's great Diana! I am so glad that you have found a "home" in the course. I was hopeful that you would be able to apply much of what we have talked about and done to your own learning environments. I think you have!
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