Today, There was EFL Reading – Second ELT Symposium in my university. Speakers were Leo Wood and Tony Gurr. Symposium was about reading. First speaker who was Leo Wood. According to Wood, if we don’t have the knowledge about the culture of the reading text, we could not the completely understand to reading text because, if we had the knowledge about the reading text, we can presume that about unknown words. He were showed us by an example and this example included adress of Kadikoy. The adress was explain the how Wood can come to school with shuttle but there were some unknown words that was ‘’Simit Sarayi’’ in the adress. While Wood showing the adress, a foreingn guess asked the ‘’what does Simit Sarayi mean?’’ to Wood and this act shows that Wood was definitely right. Well, What am I think about it? I agree with Mr.Wood, because when I was starting from learning English to till the now, I know that I had been exposed American and British cultures because, I need to understand the cultures for learning to a foreign language. All the texts which I have read during my english education were about people or cities which are including (carrying) their cultures and when there are some points which I don’t know meanings, absolutely I have to ask. If I don’t do this, I cannot translate texts totaly. Second speaker was Tony Gurr and he gave some example about how we can improve our english language with reading and writing. These examples were actually about process and product aproaches. How can I explain these aproaches? For example, in the process aproach, there is a teaching but we need duration fort he teaching. In the product approach, there are producing at end of the duration. According to Gurr, all the learning skills follow eachother. Actually, Mr.Gurr’s presentation was a little technical information so explaining the presentation is a little hard for me but he also tried make easy unterstand the approaches to us so he talk about the schema and he asked the our story that what’s your story ? or Which things supported you for learning english? When we thought about these story, we awered of it. He was right because we have been doing it with watching english series, reading english boks, playing english video games and writing english essays. In addition Mr.Gurr was so funny. He has provided some quates about the reading to us. It was ‘’Reading isn’t dead but its changing’’ (Godin, S. 2012). Let’s think about the quatos! Do you think, waht does Seth G. Means this quate? I have some ideas about the quate. I think, Godin meaned people don’t like read to books anymore, They like read to bestseller, short stories, blogs and e-books. To conclusion, I understood that the teaching english is hard but it is not imposible. We need to time and need to knowledge like cultures. If I have a magic stick, I would like to be a good teacher and would like to learn every cultures. Because I think, English is the heart of the communications with everyone so I want to be chain between the people and their life. I mean I want to help others learn to use language, because through the communication, people may understand eachother and English is the best way for the every nations.
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