Self-teaching techniques
Posted: February 28th, 2016, 10:32 am
There are generally speaking, three ways to develop as a teacher; copying others, applying ideas and learning from our own mistakes (or experience). In the case of the autodidact - the self-teacher - there may be some difficulty in copying others, though a forum like this affords opportunities to share ideas and to learn the how to study from others. There are also some range of ideas sprouting forth from the fingers of those who offer suggestions on what theories are best to bear in mind when teaching (yourself). Finally, there are recurrent admonitions to read and keep on reading.
Self-teaching is presumably more involved than the mindless memorisation of table upon table from a primer, or a determined effort to go on rendering every word into English, or even just reading on in the hope that the meaning might one day leap out of the page.
I'm hoping that we could go to a little more depth than simply " I read" or "I recite paradigms". On way of going deeper in discusion is to follow the model of obstacle - overcoming (problem - solution) "If face this, I do that". Another is to enumerate steps in finer detail. A third might be to show the interrelatedness of learning, either the aspects of learning to the over-all process of learning (a way to see if your approach is balanced), or how the learning is related to the practice of using the language.
There are likely to be some techniques that you have proven work well for you, there are some which you are trying now and it is not clear if in the long-term they will prove to be the most beneficial, and there are some which you think should work, be they are more ideals than experience. I guess any of those could be shared, and if you were to state whether they are old, faithfuls, present practice or inspiring future directions, that would be beneficial too, I think.
In keeping with the three part model for improving as a (self-)teacher, either first hand experience -how it was done, interesting ideas or how you've moved on or improved may all be interesting.
Self-teaching is presumably more involved than the mindless memorisation of table upon table from a primer, or a determined effort to go on rendering every word into English, or even just reading on in the hope that the meaning might one day leap out of the page.
I'm hoping that we could go to a little more depth than simply " I read" or "I recite paradigms". On way of going deeper in discusion is to follow the model of obstacle - overcoming (problem - solution) "If face this, I do that". Another is to enumerate steps in finer detail. A third might be to show the interrelatedness of learning, either the aspects of learning to the over-all process of learning (a way to see if your approach is balanced), or how the learning is related to the practice of using the language.
There are likely to be some techniques that you have proven work well for you, there are some which you are trying now and it is not clear if in the long-term they will prove to be the most beneficial, and there are some which you think should work, be they are more ideals than experience. I guess any of those could be shared, and if you were to state whether they are old, faithfuls, present practice or inspiring future directions, that would be beneficial too, I think.
In keeping with the three part model for improving as a (self-)teacher, either first hand experience -how it was done, interesting ideas or how you've moved on or improved may all be interesting.