How to
Set Up Oral Homework: A Case of Limited Technology.
Reading skill
Homework
composes of students’ written assignments and how they interpret the
assignments. Students
sometimes do individual works or pair work to answer simple exercises, draw a
mind map, or improve a higher creative writing tasks. Teachers will carry
difficult copies of students’ homework and check the correct of them sent by
e-mail or upload to the class. Moreover, homework may include tasks that
students set. Teachers should allow students having participation to create a
student-centered classroom and teachers take a less control role. Homework
should be a deadline and formal characteristics, including length, type of
font, organization and layout. Students can make time for making homework as “a
positive effect on learning.” In this section, oral homework just like general
homework that include a deadline, easy collected and it occur in course. Students
are asked to general homework (1) to complete individual homework with peers, (2)
to turn homework by e-mail, uploading or bringing it in class and (3) to
present and accept feedback of it. The main purpose of this article is using
limited technology context appropriated with completed and collected homework.
Teachers and students rarely alike
agree that there is not enough class
time to develop oral skills. Speaking words or produce speech is good challenge
for students. There are possible reasons why students should use oral homework,
including language learning aptitude, language learning anxiety, individual
learning style, and general readiness. Oral homework allows students to produce
speech, pronounce English sound correctly and practice listening skill. Teachers
should provide class time for students to say something without competition. In
this time, students still do both speaking and listening skill. Likewise,
students and teachers still need technology in recording oral’s production
effectively, including basic drills, minimal pair exercises, real-time chatting,
or online conferencing. How do I set up oral homework? Teachers can use
internet access to develop record and deliver oral homework using communication
in real-time interaction. However, teachers can record and turn in oral homework
without an Internet by recording students’ oral production to the computer or
store the digital audio files on the hard drive or transform them to other
media such as CDs, USB flash drive and memory cards. Oral
production can also allow students for more using creativity than depending on
prescribed scripts. Dialogues, role-plays and information gap activity are good
oral homework for students in recording. In addition, students can develop
communicative skills, interaction in pair or group work.
Oral homework is good teaching
strategies for allowing students an enough class time and opportunity for them
in oral production and feedback. Students can record tasks by using computer
that connected with Internet. They can record dialogues, role-plays and
information gap activity by recording
students’ oral production to the computer or store the digital audio files on
the hard drive or transform them to other media such as CDs, USB flash drive
and memory cards. Students can learn how to use technology for recording their
oral production, communicative skill, listening skill and interaction among
their friends. Oral
homework created by students is tasks in a limited technology context without
using the Internet. Some students solve problem because of the lacking of the
Internet by accepting regular audio-cassettes and video files that they direct
camera to a blank spot while they are recording. Someone records their voice in
Power Point software. Other students therefore use tape recorded or MP3 player.
According to teaching students to record oral homework, I found that students
can develop themselves in many ways such as solving problem, interacting in
group, being creative in oral production. Do you agree with this article? Why?
Reference:
Elba
Méndez. How to Set Up Oral Homework: A
Case of Limited
Technology. Assessed from: http:// americanenglish.state.gov/
Resources-teaching-forum-2010-volume-48-number-3
(On July 8, 2013).
How to
Set Up Oral Homework: A Case of Limited Technology.
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary
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Pronunciation
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Meaning
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Deadline (n)
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/ˈdedlaɪn/
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ขีดจำกัดเวลา
a point
in time by which something must be done
Ex: the
January 15 deadline set by the United Nations
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Ban (v)
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/bæn/
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ห้าม
o
order somebody not to do something, go somewhere, etc, especially officially
Ex:
She's been banned from leaving Greece while the allegations are investigated.
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Restless (adj.)
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/ˈrestləs/
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กระสับกระส่าย
unable to
stay still or be happy where you are, because you are bored or need a change
Ex: The
audience was becoming restless.
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Asynchronous (adj.)
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/eɪˈsɪŋkrənəs/
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ไม่ตรงกัน
not
existing or happening at the same time
Ex:
Susan and Tony usually communicate in asynchronous topic.
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