Week 3-meeting with Susan Halliwell

We were asked to open Susan Haliwell's book entitled "Teaching English in a Primary Classroom".The first chapter would be "Working with Young Language Learners".There are six characteristics need to be discuss by us according to our own group.

a) children's ability to grasp meaning

b) children's creative use of limited language resources.

c) children's instinct for play and fun

d) the role of imagination

e) the instinct for interaction and talk.

My group has been given to discuss "children's instinct for play and fun".Learning occurs in two ways: direct and indirect learning. Direct learning is a formal learning where indirect learning is informal learning. Children often appear to learn in indirect experiences. They subconsciously acquire certain knowledge and skills. The best part of children’s learning is when they can learn and have some fun. in classroom pupils love to be in their own world which means they love to play a game based on their understanding.For example if teacher teaches them about direction, the kids will act like driving a car while making a honking sound and acting like giving signal. they actually bring in whatever experience there learn outside the class into their lesson. Hence, it becomes indirect learning for them as sometimes they might not realize about it.

Through sense of fun and play, the children are living the language for real. yet again we can say that games play a central role in individualizing personalities of the kids.