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Date Posted: 13:04:18 06/27/03 Fri
Author: Maria Juliana de Souza
Subject: Task # 8



1. Write a narrative telling us your learning history. Include your classroom experiences and all the actions you performed in different contexts in order to learn English.
I started studying English in fifth grade at my regular school and I enjoyed it very much! I can remember my first English class, my teacher wrote a poem on the blackboard and as I always loved rhymes, I loved that one and appreciated my teacher very much.
At that moment of our lives, my father decided that we kids should learn English in a private course and send me to MAI, at av. Brasil. I remember that I loved that school and their boring classes. We, students used to repeat a lot, those old lessons.
Their method was based on Audiolingualism, but I loved the small pictures and can even remember some dialogues nowadays. I remember my first teacher and my second one. I can remember most of them and I can even remember a lesson were characters were eating fish for breakfast in Phoenix, Arizona. It was amusing to me that someone could eat fish for breakfast! Even today, I am not sure they eat fish for breakfast in Arizona, but this possibility made me dream about other people’s way of life and I am almost sure dreaming and imagining was an important learning skill I developed.
Maybe, was not Audiolingualism that made me learn English, but the ability of developing a ‘dreaming tool’ for learning.
When I was in Ensino Médio, I went to the United States for a 3-Month Exchange student program and came back to Brasil with the decision of developing a teaching career. What I did after I came back to Brasil was to enroll myself in English courses and now at FALE, UFMG.

2. Analyze you learning history according to the communicative principles and tell us if there were some of its characteristics in your learning experience.
Analyzing my learning experience, I cannot find the steps of Communicative Approach formally designed but I think that if I had not built a ‘language learning skill in my brains’, I would have never learned English. Building knowledge is Communicative Approach goal and I think I reached it.


Reference:
http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/GudlnsFrALnggAndCltrl

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