An experience I had was when I planned a trip to a village in Vietnam with a group of my friends in January 2013. The aim of the trip was to improve the standard of English among the students living in the village through organising daily lessons for 2 weeks.
During the first few days of teaching, the students appeared bored in class due to the language barrier. Also, many of them left class halfway as they were disinterested in the lesson. Despite being disappointed by their reactions, my group and I were determined to improve their English standards in our 2 week stay. Thus, we began reflecting on how we carried out our lessons, the teaching methods used as well as how we interacted with the students. After much reflection, we realised that our main problem was in engaging the students due to language barrier. Also, as the students were of a younger age group, they had a shorter attention span. This resulted in them losing interest through the classroom style teaching.
With that, we began modifying our teaching methods. For example, we included actions to go with the words we taught them like acting out how the different animals behave. This allowed the students to better understand the words taught.
The English teaching experience broadened my perspective of how English can be taught. This is because past experiences of learning English involved the heavy use of textbooks and examinations as well as conversing in English. In addition, I have learnt that we have often neglected other forms of communication like action which can be used to enhance our learning.
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Despite initially facing setbacks teaching little Vietnamese kids English in Vietnam, Gio and her friends persevered and overcame the challenge with new methods of teaching using their bodies, which broadened her perspective of English instructions.