PITCH-RESO Essays - Language, Learning To Read, Lexicography

PITCH-RESO Essays - Language, Learning To Read, Lexicography The lack of consistency among the junior high students that affect their English proficiency skills Members Minioza, Carpo, Ronquillo, Agustin, Espejo, Viagedor Ronquillo: (Will facilitate the short activity and explain each after the students have given their own explanation about the pictures)Espejo:Introduction: Learning English aims at helping students use the language effectively for real life purposes. Students need to use English to become functional in professional, academic and social settings. In the Philippines, English proficiency is found out to be declining. A recent language test result showed that the Philippines is no longer the top one English-speaking country in Asia. Sam: (Read and Explain the slide about The Importance of English Language )Minioza:Why do some students students lack the consistency in speaking in english?An illusion to think that students like us will learn to speak and pronounce words with a decent accent by simply reading or listening to a teacher, or a classmate.Speaking is the most difficult of the four skills. Reading, Listening, and writing can be learned with a teacher or on one's own. It requires immediate comprehension and real time reaction. Students have to produce language instantaenously with the correct vocabulary, right use of tense and sentence structure. Even if we ask students to read texts or search for information in the internet, they will only learn to read and pick up passive vocabulary which we all know will not help to improve our English Speaking Skills.Programs and projects conducted by schools are not enough to promote the development of English language proficiency among Filipino students. As we can all see, even if we have this "English Campaign" implemented in our school, but do students really follow this program? Instead, they would most likely to speak in English, whenever they feel like to, they would also feel unmotivated because of their Non-english speaking environment. With this causes, It would definitely result to the lack of consistency among all of us. Carpo:Facundo stated that, In the Philippine, People are familiar with the frequent judgm ents made on that classmate who speaks better English than most.Adults say that looking up to them is the colonial mentality. More deprecating comments dismiss them as "nosebleed" - because exerting effort to speak English the way they do or simply understanding what they say demands too much effort.Sta. Ana (2013) pointed out 7 reasons why people can't deny the fact that most Filipinos can't speak in English better. Filipinos get engaged to their mother tongue which is the Filipino language. Next one is that Filipinos find it hard to adjust to the pronunciation of English words, each words and letters have different pronunciations. However in the English language, it is pronounced differently with various sounds. If a person spoke the language, they might get mocked by the others simply because of its incorrect pronunciation.Viagedor, Agustin:ResolutionThere are various ways that we could to avoid lack of consistency and to pursue the improvement of the students English language pr oficiency, The group have suggested few programs for the students.Picture Describing Activity It is similar to the activity that we have done a while ago.English Teachers must allot 5 mins of their time to involve each student in speaking activity.Picture Describing is to give students set of different pictures and having them describe what it is in the picture.This may be done individually or by group. Students discuss the picture with their groups, then a spokesperson from each group describes the picture to the whole class.This activity fosters creativity and imagination of the learners as well as their public speaking skills.Goal of this program is to provide maximum opportunity to students to speak the target language by providing a rich environment that contains collaborative work, authentic materials, and shared knowledgeStory Completion This is a very enjoyable, whole-class, free-speaking for which students sit in a circle. For this activity, a teacher starts to tell a story , but after a few sentences, he or she will stop narrating.Then, each student starts to narrate from the point where the previous one stopped. Each Students should add from 4-10 sentences. They can add new characters, events, descriptions and so on.The goal of this program is to reduce teacher speaking time in class while increasing students' speaking time.Reference:https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Filipinos-speak-English-well