Week 4 Journal..

1.What language areas do you think you particularly want to work on to be a well qualified English teacher?

I think "Speaking" is the basis and one of the most important areas. I think the fact that you speak English fluently means your writing, listening and reading are also great, so I will practice a lot to speak well. I suppose a good English speaker seems to be resepcted by his or her students.

2.Stundents these days tend to really care their English teacher's pronunciation. They seem to believe that English teachers should pronounce just like a native speakers of English. What do you think about this belief? How would you react to this attitude (belief)?

I think pronunciaiton is very important when you first learn language, but speaking just like a native speaker is too hard even to English teachers. Knowing how to pronounce exactly and teaching well what you know are more important, I think. So, I think it is not that good to judge a teachr only by how good his or her pronunciation is.