16th Learning Reflection in Seminar in English Language Teaching Course

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

I discussed about the Internet and history of social network, advantages & disadvantages of social media.

- 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.