{"id":10753,"date":"2017-02-08T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:55","slug":"teacher-diaries-mr-rex-teaching-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/02\/teacher-diaries-mr-rex-teaching-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Diaries: Mr. Rex &#8211; Teaching Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst English is one of the official languages in Hong Kong, students\u2019 exposure to it is limited\u2014exam-oriented drills and extra-curricular activities take up most of their time outside the classroom. As a result, a lot of them overlook the beauty of the language, as well as the cultures associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>Language goes hand in hand with culture; their evolutions synchronise. So it\u2019s vital to help students develop interests in the arts and culture of the Anglosphere. I always encourage them to appreciate the films, music and literature from the English-speaking world during their free time. Whereas the benefits may not be seen immediately, they can be massive in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>As well as culture, I like grammar. It\u2019s the rules of the language \u2013 you can never play a game well if you don\u2019t fully understand the rules. By guiding them to understand the grammar rules in a step-by-step and logical approach, I hope they can learn faster, and grow into sharp, logical individuals well-versed in both language and culture in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst English is one of the official languages in Hong Kong, students\u2019 exposure to it is limited\u2014exam-oriented drills and extra-curricular activities take up most of their time outside the classroom. As a result, a lot of them overlook the beauty of the language, as well as the cultures associated with it. Language goes hand in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}