2015년 6월 8일 월요일

Reading reflexton #2 Blogging for ELT

There were some worries when I was english teacher before. The biggest worry when I was a English teacher in Korea(EFL environment) was how the student be exposed lots of english language. Other worry was that I always felt short of time every class progressing class activities and checking assignments. Last one was making students interact with each other in English. It made it difficult that different english levels of students and students' tendency(e.g. extrovert and introvert personality).
 After reading this article, I found answers of that worries. The solution is Blogging.
 First, blog offers many opportunities of meeting english. they blog a spot what they interest and get responses from public audience. They can discuss about some issue with other classmates or other country people and get feedback about their spots.
 Second, blog can be a useful means of instruction, syllabus, course information, homework, assignment, etc. Teacher make student know lesson before the class. And they can check assignment with disregarded for time.
Third, in the Internet environment, students are able to interact easily. By blogging spots, they can get comments from other people. And there is evidence to suggest that students that who are quite in class can find their voice when given the opportunity to express themselves in a blog.
 Blog is not only way for interesting but also good tool of learning english. Keeping the students blog as a habit, blogging is innovate way to learning english

reading reflextion #1(How I learned English in the pre-Internet age and why you can do it faster)

I read a article "How I learned English in the pre-Internet age and why you can do it faster" .
Reading the article, I could remind the story of how I learn English. I usually read text books and some kinds of newspaper like "New York Times". And I had to  look up new words by thick dictionary book. For spoken inputs, the cassette tape was almost the only listening material. The classic learning way is meaningful enough, most of the learning resources were focused on student input. And by learning these topics and conversations were controlled not cause the interest of the learner. So the internet can be a useful alternative in many aspects of learning English. First, students can make their output and share it easy.(Using many correction tools, student are able to self-correct thiers.) They can make short blog spots, photo essay, audio and video clip by their laptop, ipad, smartphone. Second internet gives student authentic english materials. Students explore World Wide Web and look for their interesting topics.
The way of learning English in the era is just enjoying surfing the internet, finding the interest and exchanging the opinions happlily.