Writing Feedback / Australian teenagers and junk foods in their diet [4]

The line graph below shows changes in the amount and type of fast food consumed by Australian teenagers from 1975 to 2000.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

This is my first attempt practicing on writing IELTS' Task 1 essay.

Fish and chips on antipodes

The graph shows the consumption of fast food by Australian teenagers during 1975 until 2000. It displays the number of eaten per year for pizza, fish and chips and hamburgers within the period.

Overall fish and chips were eaten the most at the beginning of the period even though after two years, it decreased. In contrast, both pizza and hamburgers were eaten less at the beginning of the period but gradually they raised the number of eaten per year from the middle of the period.

Fish and chips were eaten 100 times per year in 1975 when pizza and hamburgers were at the bottom of the graph which were below 20. The former decreased five years later even though raised back again after that. However, in 1985 it dived down slightly below 40 times a year in 2000.

On the other hand, the rest of the fast food both raised constantly without going down even once. Fish and chips raised 100 in 2000 becoming the most eaten fast food. The later stopped raising in 1995 at 82, constantly stable in the position until 2000.

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Essays / Outline briefly your teaching context [3]

To be considered for the scholarship you must submit a statement of between 400 and 500 words in which you:
-outline briefly your teaching context
-submit an action plan of what you would do to benefit your community with particular reference to in-service training

scholarship statement essay questions

I'm stuck with ideas. Can anyone help?
This is a scholarship essay to join an annually conference on English Language Teaching held by IATEFL for 2018 round in Brighton, the UK.

What I can think of is, divide the essay into two parts (as the questions suggest).
1. Then, in the first part, I talk about my teaching job in the past, present and my plan for teaching in the future. Is that good enough?

2. In the second part, I talk about my plan upon returning to my country which is giving my colleagues training about what I will have learned in the conference. Is that what the essay asks?

Scholarship / Teaching context outline and an action plan containing measures to benefit a community [2]

-outline briefly your teaching context
-submit an action plan of what you would do to benefit your community with particular reference to in-service training

This is an essay to apply for a scholarship to join the annual conference in ELT (English Language Teaching) next year in the UK.

Posting multiple essays in different threads = suspension.

scholarship application letter

My name is Dany and I live in Kediri, Indonesia. I have loved English since I was a child because my family used to teach me English and I had been exposed to the language with cartoons, movies and songs. I performed well at school and these led me to study at English department in one of the best universities in Indonesia, Universitas Negeri Malang. Now I hold a degree in both English Literature and Education and have been teaching for three years at EF English First, the company that owns one of the English centers where I used to study.

I teach mostly young learners but I also have teenagers as well adults pupils. I teach various skills and wide range of materials using EF's curriculum and external supporting materials such as course books like New Cutting Edge and New English File. Using various techniques that I have learned from EF trainings and self-study that I do, we practice English skills and discuss the topics from the book where we use English as the medium of instruction and communication wholly. I love teaching English since I feel satisfied seeing my students improve their skills and gain confidence as well as become more prepared in their life in the future. This way I can help to contribute to my community and country.

Upon my return, I am planning to conduct training to my colleagues at EF. I plan to attend the talks related to teaching methods and references about learners difficulties and special needs students such as students with autism spectrum disorder, students who are dyslexic and students who has deficit attention. I will have learned plethora of new knowledge from the conference and they will provide me an insight of refreshed ideas and skills in teaching that will be helpful to disseminate to my colleagues. Those are the problems that we face at the moment since we have limited knowledge about them and it results our teaching practice not to be prepared for those challenges.

I will share what I will have learned by doing workshops for my colleagues. At EF, each teacher has opportunities to do workshops bimonthly to share their best practices and challenges and get feedbacks from everyone. This will be a great time to promote IATEFL's scholarships as well as its activities so that hopefully more teachers will interested to join.

Thank you for the opportunity. Hopefully I will make it.

Scholarship / Training teachers - How the Program Fits Your Education and Future Plans, FLTA Essay [2]

This essay is to apply FLTA (Foreign Language Teaching Assistant)

ORIGINAL PROMPT
Write a clear and detailed description of your objectives.
Give reasons for wanting to participate in the program.
Explain how the FLTA Program fits with your previous education/training and your future objectives.
Describe your future plans.
THIS STATEMENT IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR APPLICATION.

Reasons for wanting to participate in the program.
I always remember what Stephen Krashen, a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California usually says in his lectures. There are two groups of language learners. The one supporting grammar argues that to master a foreign language, one must master the grammar rule before they can speak it. The other group believes that language is mastered by the process of acquisition. I believe in the latter concept and have been doing it during my career as an English teacher for more than four years at company z. I believe I can improve my techniques of applying the concept by teaching my native language Indonesian through FLTA program.

Teaching Indonesian to foreigners is not a new experience for me. During my undergraduate study in xxx University, I joined a program called CLS (Critical Language Scholarship). It was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the hosting institution was xxx University through its Indonesian for Speakers of other Languages. I made friends with some American students which I could use my skills to implement the teaching techniques of Indonesian. During the program, I was assigned as a peer tutor where I accompanied my student to practice his Indonesian. We practiced conversing in Indonesian after he finished his regular class in places such as malls and shops. Prior to CLS I also joined a similar program called In Country, where I was also a peer tutor to teach Indonesian to a Thai student. Both programs lasted for two months.

Besides teaching Indonesian, my teaching experience includes training teachers. At the moment, I am an active committee of an NGO named WKGM (Wong Kito Galo Mengajar). I have been an advisor as well as the head of curriculum in WKGM for more than a year. It is an organization which members are the volunteers from the students and tutors in English Village, East Java. We teach English to elementary school students whose school is in the heart of English Village. My duty is mostly providing micro teaching training to the volunteers. Most of them are not from English pedagogy program. We do micro teaching activities regularly on Friday evening before we teach the students on the following day, Saturday afternoon. I also work together with the other committee to improve the quality of our volunteers' English by communicating in English for every occasion. It helps them improve their English through natural acquisition. They are really excited and try their best in communicating. It also helps them to gain confidence in teaching their students.

How the FLTA Program fits with your previous education/training and your future objectives.
Based on my observation as a teacher at company z as well as my experience as a student at company z, native teachers tend to emphasize communication over explaining grammar rule which works well. This raises my curiosity and encourages me to sharpen my skills in teaching English by joining FLTA program. Through this program I wish to improve my English by living and studying in the US. I need more perspective related to the culture of the people so that I will not only teach the language but also share the way people in the US live to my students. I also seek to gain more English pedagogy knowledge by auditing some courses such as Psychology in Language Teaching and Teaching Grammar.

If I am accepted, I will actively involve in cultural events run by my host university and Indonesian Students Association or PPI. I am going to introduce Indonesian food, traditional games, culture and Javanese writing system called aksara Jawa. I will also introduce them in my classes so that my students will not only learn Indonesian but also gain a first hand experience of Indonesian culture.

Describe your future plans.
Upon my return, I will use my credentials from attending FLTA program to apply scholarships for a master's degree in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) since I need it to be a lecturer. I have decided to be a lecturer to have a bigger influence in spreading English teaching techniques as well as promoting study in the US to recent and future English teachers. I am experienced in teaching but I have limited theories and research literature related to English teaching. Pursuing a master's degree in TESOL will help me to cover these issues.

In addition, I want to help my community through education. I will start with an English education center where I can help the children in the community to access affordable yet quality English teaching. I also will be capable of helping young talents who seek information for scholarship abroad, especially to the US based on my experience applying FLTA program. I can guide them to fulfill the requirements for the scholarships with programs such as essay coaching and English training.