What did you learn in this lesson ?
From this course, I learned many
topics as follows;
- Global English
& Global
English' is being used increasingly nowadays. It is a means of demonstrating
that English is spoken in every part of the world, both among speakers within a
particular country who share a first language, and across speakers from
different countries/first languages.
- ESL and EFL learning
context
v ESL is English as Second
Language. ESL classes are for students who do not speak English as their native
language.
An ESL
classroom is in a country where English is the dominant language. The students
are immigrants or visitors. The class is usually of mixed nationalities, so
students don’t share a native language or a common culture. Outside the
classroom, students have a specific, practical need for English, and ample
opportunity to use it. Students have extensive daily exposure to
English-speaking culture, although their understanding may be limited by their language
skills.
v EFL is English as Foreign
Language
An EFL
classroom is in a country where English is not the dominant language. Students
share the same language and culture. The teacher may be the only native English
speaker they have exposure to. Outside of the classroom students have very few
opportunities to use English. For some, learning English may not have any
obvious practical benefit. Students have
limited exposure to English-speaking culture, most often through a distorted
lens like TV or music.
By Oxford University Press ELT
- English language in
ASEAN context
Prof. Yano (2006); pointed out the
effects of NS-NNS as follows:
1. Using English in the NS-NNS help
Asian students to expose themselves toward NS
2. Using English for communication in
English, learner in Asian helps them to be positive and active in the
international communication and forces them to be ready to interact immediately.
3. Non-NS realized that the main
important of using English is able to discuss and express their ideas and
opinion. So, Non-NS often makes the grammatical mistakes.
Moreover, I
think that good teachers should be good in various factors, including psychological
factors, social factors, ability to adapt different strategies and creating
interesting activities for students.
- Classroom learning context
I studied about examples classroom learning context in Malaysia,
Mozambique and China.
Teacher make me aware about factors affecting ELT and learning consists
of 3 factors;
1. Teacher
2. Students
3. Learning environment
- ICT in classroom
- CLT
Communicative
approaches were influenced by functional linguistics.
Goal: To enable
learners to develop communicative competence in order to use the target
language in communication.
Classroom
activities:
- Tasks that
require students to share information and negotiate meaning
- Include
problem-solving tasks, role-plays, simulates and games, and usually exclude use
of L1
- Students
are expected to play active roles through “negotiating for meaning” thus, they
are expected to interact primarily with each other rather than with the
teacher.
- Students
have opportunities to experiment with new language.
- Pair work and group work.
- Integrated
skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Use of
authentic tasks and “realis”/ authentic material to promote students’
communication
Teacher’s
role
Been and
Candlin (2001) specifics a variety of role:
- Facilitator
- Interdependent
participant
- Organizer
of resources, a resource, and a guide
- Researcher
Richard and Rodger(2001)
- Analyst
- Counselor
- Group
process manages
Learner-centeredness
1. Learner
participant in the whole process of the course content and selecting learning
procedures
2. Learner
participant in the design of language activities
3. Learner
are encouraged to take responsibility to a great degree of their learning
4. Enhancing
learner autonomy
Constraints
of CLT
- Focus on
fluency over accuracy
- Learner and
teacher roles
- Cultural appropriately:
ESL and EFL
- Student’s
lack of target language exposure
- Traditional
teaching and learning culture
- Teacher
expertise and student English proficiency level
- Lack of
learning resource/ support
- Class size
- 21st century skills
WHAT DID YOU FIND EASY ?
I think ICT is easy for me because the vocabulary
and some information in the topic aren’t too complex. Another, I always use
social network to study, find some information or relax. Moreover, ICT can be
materials for me to teach or develop students’ skills in English such as Facebook, Blog, YouTube, Internet etc.
What did you find difficult ? (problem)
All of the topics are quite difficult for me because they are
contained with many contents and some unseen vocabulary. I must read them more
times 1 time.
What did you solve the problem ?
I solved my problem by consulting online dictionary, asking and
discussion with my friends, and reading the content more as much as possible.
What did you attitudes towards the
lesson ?
I feel very happy with the teacher and this course. The teacher asks me to think by answering the prepared questions and group discussion. The teacher is interested and motivate me to learn happily. Thank you for alls, my love teacher.
