Week 4

Learning Log: On June 24 th, 2013

    Presentation is way to practise speaking English. Speaking skill always be related to using thinking skill. Before presentation, you should search new information on several websites and summarize it in your own words. In addition, when you copy other tasks or ideas, you have to do references for referring to head writers. Today, there are presentation on five topics namely vocabulary teaching, teaching English using ICT, culture teaching, Communicative Language Teaching and pronunciation.

      Vocabulary teaching is related to teaching students to understand vocabularies in context. It is not only teaching them to remember vocabularies. For instance, you teach them about New Year Day, you should guide them to search information by themselves on Internet. After that, the teacher tells students to find new difficult vocabularies from the context and meaning of them. Then students get finished, the teacher can teach them what function of each word is and apply teaching present simple tense to these vocabularies. After students understand how to use structures of using present simple tense, the teacher allows them to make up sentences by using vocabularies in which they find.

       Culture teaching is related to teaching English and inserting culture together. The teacher should teach students to know how to live, how to dress up, what they eat, how their live is, etc. At the present, the teacher should teach students to gain knowledge about culture of ten countries in ASEAN community. The teacher can use these teaching strategies to teach students to understand culture, including discussion, do activities in the large group, role-playing, mini-drama, educational travel and using CALL lesson.

        

  Pronunciation teaching is teaching students to understand a goal of speaking as native speakers. A more practical approach is to aim for “listener- friendly pronunciation” (Kjellin 1998). There are many teaching steps such as warmer, listening, focus, pronunciation and practice. The teacher has to teach students to gain knowledge about pronunciation, phonetics, speaking out, listening and accuracy accents. Pronunciation is related to four skills of English: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

  Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) or Communicative approach is way to teach students in communication with the others. CLT, there are five steps to teach students, including warm-up, presentation, practice, production and wrap-up. The teacher teaches students to communicate through interaction in the target language. The teacher allows students to educational travel outside the classroom for communicating with foreigners at several places such as hotels, restaurants, shopping place, beach or the national park. For example, using ‘The National Park Service” as the classroom at America, the teacher can allow students to learn new experiences about science subject as authentic materials and it is easier to recognize something.

     Today, Aj. Anirut also guide students to summarize what we learned into chart, including belief for teaching, curriculum, course, syllabus, lesson plan and standard/ indicator. Then students understand about this chart, he gives students some homework:  writing syllabus in these topics-local, regional, global and glocal that comes from combination of global & local. In this homework is composed of topic/ what to teach, vocabulary, grammar/ pronunciation, skills/ function (task), 3A5S and how much time to teach such as 2 hours. Today, I gain both teaching approach and homework. I think I can apply what I have learned in this class to do lesson plan for teaching students being good at English as native speakers.

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