Defence International Training Centre

The Defence International Training Centre is a centre that focuses on fostering personnels from the military in English Teaching for their country. There are courses available from the centre where militants are able to join. Most militants in the courses are in classes through scholarships from their government. Students come from countries all around Asia; including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines.

The class i observed was built up of militants of different ages, ranking and countries; because of this, respect was a very important aspect in the classroom. The teacher allowed classroom discussion throughout the lesson. The first activity allowed us to get to know the students in the class, the teacher gave us some questions we could ask each other and ensured that everyone had participated in discussions as students must find a new partner every time the music starts to play. In the pre-teaching of the last activity, the teacher gave the students concept questions and guided the students towards the scope of the lesson. The last activity allowed group discussion as students were sat into groups to discuss a lesson plan to teach students a word we found difficult for ESL students.

In terms of the materials and the course of the lesson; i found that the materials were authentic and that it generated on-task discussion throughout the lesson. Students were all engaged towards the tasks and understood the aim. From participating in the class, i was able to learn about the ways i could teach vocabulary and the steps i need to take. I also found that by presenting our lesson plans to the class, we are able to learn the different types of methodology we could use in our future lessons.