Reflection MOHD FARAHAN ABDUL RAHMAN Alhamdulillah, first and forever, I would love to thank Allah because Im managed

to complete the task. We have been received a task for our ELE 3104, English Language Teaching Methodology for Young Learner. According to the task, we have to present our lesson plan that we have prepared earlier for the English Language Teaching Methodology For Young Learners task. Beside that, we also need to search some articles about how to teach reading skill, listening skill, speaking skill and also writing skill and from the articles we must make 4 graphic organisers based on our reading from the articles. From my observation, many of my friends have chosen KSSR syllabuses which are consist of year 1 until year 3 pupils for their micro teaching processes. I thought, maybe it was going to be easy for them to prepare a lesson plan and at the same time to do the micro teaching as the topics are easier and do not involve complex learning such as grammar in writing. For me, I have determined to choose year 4 topic focusing on reading skill and integrated with writing skill. I choose that skill because I would like to challenge myself with the difficulties that I would have faced that I saw not many of us have put this as their targets or aims. As we know, reading and writing are some of the major problem in learning English for Second Language for Malays. So here, I really liked to have the real situation of teaching English at school. So it would be easy for me to find the problem which is to be assumed as weaknesses.. The strengths of my teaching basically held on my chosen activities. As you can refer on my lesson plan sheet, I have provided interesting event for teaching and learning activities which were game on practise and production stages. The activities are bowling at practice, form new words on production stage and also singing during closure stage. If I was the student, I would have never been bored in the class. Kids generally portrayed with playing games, having fun and easy to lose attention. Therefore, the activities were prepared to tackle those problems from occurring during my class. My pupils would not play other games if my games are more interesting than theirs. So, the strength that I would like to high light here is the activities that I have planned were good enough to attract pupils attent ion to stay focus in learning. Like Martin 1995 said Any fun activity which gives young learners the opportunity to practice the foreign language in a relaxed and enjoyable way (Martin 1995) The fact that I have decided to use all those activities was reasonable. I thought analytically in choosing activities for every stage in steps. It is because, the activity chosen plays important role in making my pupils understand and to ensure the learning outcomes

could be achieved at the end of the lesson so that the lesson would not waste time. Here is another challenge emerged as I have stated earlier. The activity must be knowledgeable, and suitable for syllabus. Therefore, here I had to use my creativity and twist my brain to adapt the lesson into games and attractive activities. What I was looking for was meaningful learning. If my interactive activities stand alone without any benefit, I should not teach English in school. But here, I have managed to make my pupils understood about the focused skill which was reading. I also have acted nice in front of my mock pupils. Acting as a nice teacher, I praised them, gave them present to encourage them in learning. As a result, the pupils seemed happy and motivated. It is called positive reinforcement. Real children would appreciate their teachers gift even it is not big enough to be announced. It means, if a teacher gives their student a present, surely it motivates them to be good in front of the teacher and next to be good in learning.The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. (B. F. Skinner). So, giving praise and present are one of best method to motivate our pupils. I admit, it was my first time doing this lesson plan and I have faced many problems and it kept encountering me again and again. My major problem was choosing the best activity for certain stage. It was not hard to produce the idea, but it was hard when I had to rethink whether the activity chosen is suitable for students level, syllabus, time and space and many factors that could be related in the coming lesson. Result of teaching that I have run the macro, I found I was a little less confidence in the delivery of teaching and learning content.. The activity direction from me is a little bit confusing which is pupils cannot understand what they should do. It is because of I was applied constructivism approach which is letting the pupils to figure the answers by them self but some pupils failed to do the complete the worksheet correctly my instruction not clear therefore they should be guided by the teacher clearly. Some of the problems emerged because of my anxiety and reckless. I was so nervous that I have taken lots of times to calm down and recall the steps in my teaching process. I suppose this happened because I have prepared the materials just a day before the event occurred. Beside, my painful teeth were not fully recover yet. Therefore, I was not well prepared even thought I have done the preparation before the teaching. Therefore, the answer to my problem is of course to prepare the well before the presentation