Differences in Terms of Skills
So-Eun observes that her domestic language learners and heritage language
learners bring different skill abilities to the classroom. In her commentaries
she describes several of these differences.
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As her students are reading sentences from the textbook, So-Eun focuses
their attention on key grammatical features and new vocabulary words.
Reflections - One difference she perceives is that her domestic
learners enjoy reading aloud but her heritage learners do not. She feels
that the reason for this is that heritage learners are embarrassed by
their accents. Has this been the case in your experiences? How do you
deal with students whose pronunciation you consider to be non-standard?
Following a listening comprehension exercise, So-Eun checks how much
the students understood by asking them comprehension questions.
Reflections - Have you experienced similar differences between
heritage and domestic language learners? If you have, how do you deal
with such differences? If you have not observed such differences, what
do you think accounts for the similarities between the two groups?
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