So excited!!
I have to thank all of my group mates. All of us were so busy, but still we tried our best to make enough time to meet and work together. Though I designed the main sequence, our micro-teaching was not my own product. I received many helpful suggestions from my group mates, and the most fascinating part which added on the interesting level was given by Mini. She said that we did not have to be traditional in designing the choice pool for birthday gift receivers, let's try something creative, such as "a rigid supervisor", and "the boy that you have a crash on". This part promoted the lesson's quality in terms of humor, which lowered language learners affective filter.
It was universally known that code-switching in language teaching for intermediate students can be harmful, but somehow I could not really control it during our rehearsal. Anyway I composed my lesson plan in English! Xinyu spent almost 4 hours with me the night before, working on the lesson plan and analysis of our tasks, and kept correcting my code-switching. Thank you very much!
Since I was sooooo tired for the whole April ("Black April for Due"), I was even not sure about my "energy level" during micro-teaching. My group mates encouraged me and comforted me a lot. I love you, girls.
Of course, I must express my gratitude to all of the teachers and faculties in TCSOL program, and the teachers, as well as the students, who helped my in the Eastern Asian Department of Columbia University. It was the assistance from them which makes these amazing experience possible. I got a chance to understand Task-Based Language Teaching, to approach all the great theories on Second Language Acquisition, and to really reflect on my first language, Mandarin, under the instruction of top scholars in this field. I think I found my enthusiasm here again.