Learning Language

As a child, I think that I mostly used phonics to learn language. I vividly remember spending a countless hours on the computer playing Reader Rabbit. It was so much fun and I loved all of the noises that the game made while I was playing. I had several levels of this game and enjoyed getting to pass this game on to a boy that I used to babysit for him to use. Games like this get kids to learn while having fun and that is something that they greatly enjoy.

As a current pre-service teacher and in the future, a classroom teacher, I think that my previous learning experiences of learning language will inhibit me in some ways because I learned through using phonics rather than other methods. So, when I am trying to teach language to my students, I am probably going to begin by teaching phonics because that is what I know and that is my first instinct. So, I am going to have to learn the other ways of learning language so that I can teach my students how cannot learn through phonics for different reasons.