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- 1. Reflective Journal Week4 Innovative Teaching Strategies Christine Smart – English Language Specialist, US Department of State I have learned a lot of new practical teaching techniques about four macro-skills in this fourth week. Apart from the four macro-skills, I found that Innovative Teaching Strategies session is completely new to me. In this session, I have learned some teaching theories from three famous Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers such as Stephen Krashen, Ana Filipek, and Howard Gardner. Among them, I really love the theory ‘Access the Core’ by Ann Filipek, and I really enjoyed with Christine’s Pictorial Reveal demonstration. I believe that this technique will help my students in three ways. First, students will enjoy learning new vocabularies by seeing teacher’s drawing on the whiteboard. In addition, they are only learning new vocabularies, but they also practice their speaking with their partners at the same time. During the class, teacher introduces new vocabulary step by step and leave some time for students to talk before he or she continue the other parts of the picture. Second, after teacher completes the whole picture that he or she wants to reveal, he or she will introduce Three-round Vocabulary activity to the class. Students will learn and practice those new vocabularies in class. They will enjoy working in group and compete with other groups. Third, students will learn, participate, and play from the beginning until the end of the session, so they will not get bored. Example, teacher may introduce Popcorn activity to students so that I they can move and talk to other students in class. In short, I strongly believe that my students will actively participate in classroom activities, and they will enjoy learning English language. Sekkhapirath Set