One More Leap Toward Distinction
As we come close to the end of the third amazing week, I sense it safe to point out to the excellence of this course “expedition”, and the constancy of the supervisor’s assistance. Leaping from one popular article to the next, from one website to the other, and from one thread to the further, a number of our best ideas for resources have come from you, my colleagues and supervisor. I have to beg you now for then “to keep these resources coming.”
We continue to focus on our original goal of increasing awareness and knowledge so we all can make the web and other technologies better tools for everyone. I recognize that you, our students, are the reason that we continue to thrive. We are thankful for what you do, and thankful that we are part of your journey.
Through Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials , Lindsay Miller came across the very decisive instructional query of “how to help learners develop effective listening skills” and “what methods we should use and what type of materials we should introduce our learners to.” The linear interplay of the pre-, while-, and post-listening courses of action with untraditional tools has actually encouraged and broadened my practical inclination to apply listening instruction with the radio, videos, TV sets, LCD shows, computers, and many others, now before then.
Julia Gong‘s The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills brought up the critical concern of teaching pronunciation, and the facilities that might be taken from CALL utilization. Her amazing view showed what technology can give to the almost-neglected skill: easier access, low affective filter, increased motivation, and enhanced learner autonomy.
Do you see any potential role of ESL/EFL websites as a means to supplement in-class instruction? How? Strong “yes” for such sensible employment of the Internet, especially when we see how positive is students’ overall attitude to using the teacher-selected websites in their learning of English. Not only have I found such strategies effective, but also necessary for me to take my classroom environment a bit away from the shades of the dull, concrete walls.
Sorry Robert, for when you requested us only to share our web bookmarks/favorites through the startling “DELICIOUS”, we have also shared our brains and hearts; we have shared our private preferences; we have shared our screens; we have also shared our professional hopes, ambitions, and resourcefulness, excitedly.
Best,
Hassan
Dear Hassan,
ReplyDeleteYou are SO TRUE refering to how we reacted towards this DELICIOUS.COM web site. We opened our hearts and kept adding preferences and pages that we really believe will make an impact on our students.
Reading your blog gave me energy and forces me to be more organized in my thoughts. Both articles invited me to refresh techniques and to open up to new strategies applying technolgy, giving my students a different option in producing language without a threat of being penalized by mistakes.
Thank you for refreshing what we learned and for being so detailed.
Have a nice weekend.
Carol
Hello "Caro",
ReplyDeleteMy organization came from being inspired by what you have introduced. Your marvelous blog post shed the light on more than one significant concern. It seems we will keep having the mutual benefit from "thinking together" here and there. Thank you for commenting.
Best,
Hassan
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ReplyDeleteHello "Caro",
ReplyDeleteMy organization came from being inspired by what you have introduced. Your marvelous blog post shed the light on more than one significant concern. It seems we will keep having the mutual benefit from "thinking together" here and there. Thank you for commenting.
Best,
Hassan
Hey there Hassan,
ReplyDeleteLong time not contacting you by my rather 'stinging' comments.HAHA! Well what can I say more than that you truly reflected my thoughts concerning websites as supplementary resources in teaching the English Language.And I can't but
agree with you that we are sharing things,ideas,concepts,wishes,dreams,'struggles',and much more here than we usually do with our direct environment concerning these issues. Sad thing is now when I discuss these things we acquire and achieve here with my colleagues, they give me the odd look of being a Marsian! You made me feel I'm still on the right track,and that there are still people who are on the same channel as I am.
Keep up the distinction!
Regards,
Eugenie
Hi Hassan
ReplyDeleteWhat you describe is the power of the word "social" in social bookmarking. It is indeed powerful in that, as you so nicely put it, we share so much about ourselves when we do it. It is quite a different experience then if bookmarking on the internet was simply hosting your bookmarks individually in the cloud.
Robert