I summarize my final methodology lesson plan. The topic is about song. First, after greeting, I activate student to be interested in a song through related open referential questions, watching a music video without sound and mind map in warm up. Students become more relax. And then I check students’ comprehension by asking many questions and introduce past tense at grammar filling in the blanks and listing all verbs. In the step 9, students practice past tense through cooperative activities which are to make a sentence and write it down by partner’s mime in group work. And in step 10, I make students to write a letter of thanks to their favorite singer or celebrity who attended at the Sook Myung’s Centennial last Monday. I will analyze my final lesson plan by various theories such as “Risk taking”, “Intrinsic motivation” and “Input&Output hypothesis” in The Monitor model(Krashen).
The first is “Risk taking” in Affective Filter Hypothesis. Students must take risk in order to learn language successfully. So, teacher should encourage their students speak in English in several ways. That is risk taking. Teacher can help students through asking many types of questions in classroom language. In my lesson plan step 7, I ask to students open questions about students’ experience related topic, song using TSST individually. In the step 8, I encourage risk taking by cueing. I give a listening task to students to do during listening to the song or watching the music video. Students should get a hint such as past tens verb in the listing all verbs at grammar naturally. And in step 9, students should make error because they have to do activity in group. Also in step 10, students take risk in writing a letter of thanks.
The second is “Anxiety” in Affective Filter Hypothesis. In this theory, there are two kinds of anxiety, one is good facilitative anxiety and the other is bad debilitative anxiety. In according to Krashen’a affective filter theory, he emphasizes low affective filter. It means no anxiety and no stress in a class or lesson. So, I make students to discuss song that students like in warm up. I show the music video and draw mind map of song in order to reduce their anxiety. Moreover, I ask them to sing together in whole class. While I agree with him, I also agree a little bit anxiety. So, I give students homework or quiz in step12 by next class in order to promote facilitative anxiety. I think that facilitative anxiety also needs. And I use TSST comprehension check individually in all steps. I as English teacher play the role to help them feel anxiety of proper level, which is not too high and not too low. I think that these in my lesson plan are enough to analyze facilitative anxiety.
The third in The Monitor Model is Input & Out hypothesis. Input means language and caregiver speech and i+1. I give students understandable massage in the lesson. There are two kinds of input, which are roughly tuned input and finely tuned input. I use roughly tuned input that student understand topic “song” easily and meaningfully by visual material, music video. Watching it and listen to the song that they are going to learn , students can be more interested in song and communicate with other person with good emotions about song through discussing them in group work. I ask students to listen to their partner’s speaking in step 9. On the other hand, opposite to Krashen’s input hypothesis, swain’s out hypothesis insists not only meaningful input(understandable message) but also form(grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation). In my lesson plan, I make students to explain the past tense in step 8. And I make practice form(past tense) by writing in step 9&10. I think that students can build up their language competence though correcting students’ errors in writing a letter of thanks in step 11 feed back.
In conclusion, my final methodology lesson plan has many SLA theories such as affective hypothesis, input & output hypothesis, anxiety and risk taking. If I add one suggestion, I should given students instruction of activity in more detail. I had a good chance to think of my final lesson plan myself.
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