Ue s1, ma tesl, Webster University in

Element1: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology

When my students come across some challenges on Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, I will explain their some problematic topics through my ready-made materials which I have prepared before the upcoming classes to give them some basic information on the fields. The given 5 topics which are tough for my students have been learning for the previous 10 lessons, as they are beginning and fundamental steps of English learning. The following three materials will be demonstrated in the upcoming lessons to give my target group well explanation due to the themes.

Topic 1: (Morphology) https://www.canva.com/design/DAFcc3

Topic 2: (Phonetics)

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFcjwnC2Fc/IJgXVzFbJB7aFDYTSEw8hQ/edit?analytics

Topic 3:( Phonology)

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFcod1Lng4/Yf4PUEsTWLp1L_4G2JfPMg/edit

Reflection

Throughout the past term of Linguistics, I formed updated methods and ways of teaching young learners. Before the session I did not know more about the structure of academic language and different kinds of learning tools such as COCA, Academic phrasebank, Canva, Visme and so on. During this term, several formative assignments which involved selecting our target group of L2 learners were given us to do due to the challenging 5 topics of Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology. For the first assignment, I tried to choose the all topics according to my students’ needs. The more I learned about the topics, the more I realized that the appropriate selection of the materials and themes plays the most crucial role for the learners’ language learning progress and the visuals should be done accordingly students’ level and interest. To do this assignment, I found that Canva is the most convenient tool to prepare the visuals for the 5 difficult topics. While doing the material, I tried to take into consideration their levels, ages and interest to make them interested in the classes. As they are intermediate learners, I made simple sentences and definitions with attractive small pictures. While using these visuals in my lessons, I have understood that my target groups are more fan of visual aids and authentic materials. Definitely, the materials really helped my L2 learners to avoid their mistakes through the three fields and to be more attentive to the lessons and topics. According to Berko (1958), any researchers have not defined yet that the morphological awareness instruction is formed in which age of young learners, however, it has been demonstrated that the four years old children get acquainted with some morphological awareness ( as cited from Zeh , N). Apart from this, I have noticed that the students’ background knowledge have changed with the help of visuals which were made by me. It is obvious that as an English teacher, we can make our teaching process more enjoyable and informative by using different modes of teaching.