Diary: Grammar, Grammar, Grammar

"You know, I don't want a grammar class. I need to talk. I want to attend a conversation class!"

Comments of such constitute my memories of days in which I used to serve as an educational manager in an English institute. Client themselves and even parents were constantly showing their concerns about grammar. Why is Grammar so frightening? Why do people persistently try to avoid grammar? In the following lines I have tried to bring some perspectives about language and especially grammar based on what I have already picked mostly from the book Aspects of Language Teaching by H. G. Widdowson and class discussions and reviewing my own experiences in teaching as well.

Diary: What I have been supposed to learn about Learning and Learning Process

Diary is the title which hardly fully illustrates what I am going to do in the following lines. As far as diary is concerned, I may think of it as a collection of sentences describing – or maybe reporting – what has happened during any time unit in any given circumstance. However, I have titled this entry DIARY just because I have been supposed to do so. In the following lines, I mostly try to reflect my own understanding of what is called Learning and Learning Process. This understanding comes mostly from the book chapters cited in the syllabus and from class discussions.

To my Dear Professor

I believe when someone dares to experience such a dramatic change as I experienced, he has already devoted a considerable amount of time on thinking and challenging himself on the consequences of such a decision.

There is no reason for pessimism. My hands are widely open to embrace any unpredicted event in this way, and my mind is absolutely prepared to tolerate any upcoming ambiguity.

I am quite enjoying this.