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Category: Learning English
From Cambridge
Innovative methods
Language Corpus and Vocabulary
I come across this term some time ago. And I am learning to use it. It’s more than a dictionary….
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/use-a-language-corpus-to-improve-your-vocabulary/7189316.html
Teaching Methods
Reference https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/teaching-methods
The complete list of teaching methods https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/complete-list-teaching-methods/
There is no best method of teaching. It all depends on the teacher’s experience and the learners …
Advanced and innovative https://ahaslides.com/blog/15-innovative-teaching-methods/
More information âšī¸ about teaching methods https://www.learnworlds.com/teaching-methods-online-education/
Teaching English approaches, methods and techniques https://tefl-toolkit.com/blogs/the-tefl-toolkit-blog/english-language-teaching-approaches-methods-and-techniques
Teaching is a series of decision making. We might acquire all the teaching methods, approaches and techniques, but, in the real classroom situations, we are still struggling and feel exhausted… This is because we are not lonely actor actress… Our audience are the learners…
Today, 21July23. Prepared by me, Adeline AiGuat Khaw. đ˛đž
Teaching in a Digital Age
From this book: https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
Blended Learning: https://openbooks.col.org/blendedlearning/chapter/chapter-7-synchronous-and-asynchronous-activities/ Synchronous and asynchronous
Mobile learning.
Digital learning, online learning, elearning,
Argumentative Essay Writing
Title: The Value of Higher Education
Why and how I get this idea? The prompts from my collection of newspapers “cuttings’. See this from my Facebook page. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ECrjEUw7P3Wdzq1UMs6k9ZXKdgrY887Moe2GnL33RKqJU5ZU3xxdwfaudy1AgchTl&id=100023654492315
This will be a type of arguments of evaluations that we need to express a judgement / opinion about something. In this case, the criteria used might be the quality of education, expertise of the faculty, resources offered or available, students academic performance and employment opportunities…
The other types of argumentative essay are: proposal, definition, fact and cause and effect.. The above example can be transformed into cause and effect too based on the writer’s personal experiences.
I am required to prepare a teaching journal, the Argument Map Model…
– choose a text
– find the claim
– look for background context
– search for supporting evidence
– identify the reasoning…
The newspapers cuttings provide the prompts. The process of writing: context: I am writing about higher education in Malaysia. Why? Because not everyone has the opportunity .. Who will be the audience of my writings?
Task: what are the required elements of the essay?
Steps: what are the manageable chunks that I will work on in my class, including pre-writing, drafting, and rewriting ….
Evaluation: what makes for a successful paper and how will it be assessed?
Prepared by me, Adeline G Khaw AiGuat, today, 16July23
Culturally Responsive Language Classroom (2)
Example 3: Teaching Vocabularies. A continuation from the previous post. Topic: traditional foods, festive foods..
SLO , students level,
Teaching approach , teaching activities.
Prepared by: Adeline G Khaw
Celebrating Cultural Diversity
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ei_s2s8mRU8?feature=share from the webinar on 27June2023 (28June2023)
Next coming event: https://inevent.com/en/Smithsonian-1678199699/SmithsonianNationalEducationSummit2023/live.php?magicLink=1#(lobby-display:all) The National Education Summit
I like this story map : a cultural journey across đēđ¸ https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/heritage-fellows/
Culturally Responsive Language Classroom
From the fifth webinar in American English Live: Teacher Development Series 17! Date: 12July2023
#AmericanEnglishforEducators
During this webinar, “Starting the Year as a Culturally Responsive Language Classroom,” Lauren Anderson will share practical strategies and activities that teachers can use to enhance language learning in a culturally and linguistically responsive way from the first day of class.
From there, I get this idea 𥅠If I were to plan for my teaching, on the first day of my class, I would use birthday celebration as the topic.
1. When is their birthday? Age: the best thing about being my age is I have celebrated (how many times) of birthday đ…
2. What is the classroom situation? It’s made up of what community? National: if you visit my country, you would find that it’s …đđĢđ§âđ¤âđ§đ¨âđđ¨âđŠâđ§âđ§đđ§đ§ââī¸đ§ââī¸đ§ââī¸đŠâđŧđ§
3. How people celebrate birthday?
4. The students discuss and present… The students as co-creator of knowledge, they share their experience on how they celebrate their birthdays, the community norms.. students’ cultural background brings to the classroom.
5. Types of birthday, from baby one month (full moon) to old age … The culture of different races ..
Reference: example… Chinese culture . https://www.wishful.my/blogs/news/baby-full-moon-celebration
Another reference, example: https://wp.me/p2qwlw-3J
Language functions and form … Activities: example, making birthday cards / gifts (art) , writing story book…
Based on the level and age of the learners, and also the curriculum (syllabus). The language skills that I want to teach. I would adapt the idea according to my needs.
Example 1: teaching speaking .. The students can describe their experiences during birthday celebration, show the photos they have, since they were babies to the current age…. For those who never have their birthday celebrated, they can also say or share why they didn’t… But what they eat at đ … etc…. They can also create a story đ…. These activities might help to address learning issues such as students not paying attention, not interested in learning English etc.. Reference: A case study (my mini project on Issues in Teacher Education for TESOL, 8July2023@USM)
Example 2: teaching writing.. As Teacher Lauren gave that day as prompt.. I could use that.. The best thing about being my age is I have encountered (?times) of birthdays. Birthday to me is a date to remind me the day I arrived in this world…. I appreciate each and everyday although not everyday I have is…….
Student learning outcome (SLO). How to write the SLO… https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid07h6jEz2UUJj4J9DRBUXzNNhW5RkDvmTDEWCddAdm2wjbaGAVdYjQugNm5tHquGREl&id=100064783775888
In relation to this, the next topic: Responsible decision making in the classroom.. with SEL framework. Teachers’ decision making in the classroom. Teaching is a series of decision making…. Teachers make decisions:
Curriculum – plan the lessons from the syllabus, lesson content, what to teach,
Instruction – teaching approaches to use… How to teach, materials or teaching resources to be used…
Assessment – form judgement about the quality of students work or performance from available information âšī¸, relate these to a rubric, criteria, scale, standard….
Classroom climate – to create a well-rounded happy and productive classroom environment with SEL competencies – self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills… Classroom management, behaviour management (how to address unwanted behaviour and to reinforce the positive behaviour). Self-management (teacher behaviour) – how the teachers present themselves, voice projection, ….giving instrument..
The 5Cs of language learning: communication and cultures, communities and comparison, connection.
My reflection: Teacher as decision maker. In order to have a cultural responsive language classroom, teacher needs to decide on a topic for lesson planning. In this example, I use birthday celebration. The next topic can be new year celebration, festive foods, marriage ceremony, traditional clothes, traditional music, traditional games, etc… Prepared by: Adeline G Khaw
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