Would you Listen to me Please? (Week -3  Reflection) 

Dear All,

I would like to share my experience during this week in the pattern of what I did? What I learned? And what I will do next? 

What I did

1.                    With reference to discussion thread- aural/oral skill building through CALL, I went through the articles          ‘Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials’ written by Miller, L., ‘New Perspectives              in      Teaching       Pronunciation’ by Busa, M.G. and ‘The Employment of CALL in Teaching in Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills’ by Gong. Then, I selected the article entitled ‘Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials’ by Miller, L. as a basis for my discussion post.

2.       There were six websites: two for each skill consisting of activities and video clips, etc. to enhance listening, pronunciation and speaking skills provided. I went through them and preferred to select –http://www.esl-lab.com/ to develop listening skill. Then posted for discussion thread: Aural/oral skill building through CALL analyzing and reviewing them.

3.       After that, I quickly went through the list of project reports of our seniors and chose 200904_E-Teacher –Phyak_ Nepal, 200903_E-Teacher –Nicolici _Romania and 200903_E-Teacher_Zubel_Poland and did a survey of them. Then, I selected the project Report ‘2003903_E-Teacher-Nicolici_Romania and posted a comment on Nicenet.

4.       I went through the instructions and tips provided and created my Delicious page http://www.delicious.com/sharmaharimaya69 , added URL on Delicious page of Donna’s Wiki’s and publicized my URL on Nicenet.

5.       Then, I entered into the Blog world to find a new Blog with week-3 reflection. I got Nehier’s Blog and commented on it.

6.       Finally, I came to publish my Blog Post reflecting week-3.

What I learned?

First thing I learned is- how can we enhance students Listening, Speaking, Pronunciation and other skills and aspects of language through interactive web? There are so many search engines to find new ways and activities for the purpose. We can bring innovation in teaching using TV/Videos, CD-ROM, Radio and Computers. All are useful materials, however Videos can be better to use because they display non-linguistic features and real background environment along with voices of the speakers so that students can easily understand the message. Moreover, I got new web links from the course and discussion posts of my E-friends.

Next, new thing I got this week is ‘creating Delicious Page’. It is new for me. At first I went through the tips provided by the course and tried to create it. I signed up it and tried to include the bookmarks but got lost. At last I did it, however I am still confused to add taskbar on my page. From it what experience I got is ‘risk-taking’ plays very important role in learning.

From Sample Project Report, I got idea of what is expected from our term project. Moreover, I got idea what are the elements of the Project Report and the activities we have to accomplish to complete the Project for our course.

What I will do next?

At first, I will introduce my students what is CALL? Why it is very important in the field of language teaching and learning? Then, I will provide them some search engines and ask them to select at least one search engine or one page to develop and of language skills and come to class next day. When they come to the class next day, I will ask them to share their experience among the friends.

Finally, I will model a CALL Class of Aural/oral skills using video clips and discuss how they experienced, then encourage them to use CALL to develop language skills of their students because they are trainee-teachers.

That’s all for now!

Greetings

Harimaya