Wee: 15

How we can use technology to provide feedback

 There are a lot of benefits for online teachers to use that kind of technology because it allow you to record the screen of your own computer, make a videos and records your voice. Also, there are some examples how online teachers can use it for feedback: 

·         Screen capture and feedback: teacher can use Microsoft Work and mark

The advantage of this approach are pretty obvious because if teacher create a video for give feedback to students. They can see and watch the correction in the same time and teacher can ask about the homework. Furthermore, learners can have feedback about written work in their native language especially if the teachers have a monolingual class.

Students and teachers never meet because this is one of the benefits that exits, and it can make the feedback very personal for example: If students have problems with a grammar point or with some vocabulary, you could easily open up Microsoft Word, write out the rule or vocabulary you want to explain and then record yourself going through it. There is almost no limit to the number of ways the tool can be used.

Rate: 5 

  

 

Week: 14

The importance of a classroom discussion

Something really interesting that called my attention about this reading is the benefits that the teachers have in a classroom discussion. Is the teacher create a communicative class, students have the opportunity to participate and ask or answer questions along the class. Also, for students participate can be interesting because there is more motivation for them, and they can hear other point of their classmates. Teacher can ask to students good questions about the topic. Thus, students are engaged with the discussion. On the other hand, Participation provides the teacher feedback. When students answer or try to explain, teachers can see the extent of their understanding, and if it is necessary teachers can help to students. Students know something about the importance of certain ideas and information, and participations can show what happen in class, and teacher can control it how much they talk. Furthermore, Participation encourages dialogue among and between students—Students can be asked to comment on what another student has said.

Students can develop their public communication skill, and they can participation gives students the chance to practice using a different vocabulary. For that reason a classroom discussion is really important.

Rate: 5

week: 12

The benefits that project work has in a second languages learners

Something that called my attention about this reading was the importance that project work has in foreign language classrooms with this method the students are actively engaged in formation gathering, processing, and reporting over a period of time.  On the other hand, for teachers this technique is really useful because students can grow themselves. And they can development their own knowledge, and become more independent of the teacher for example:                                                                                                 

·         Students can practice all the skills in one project and show their abilities

·         Focuses on real-work subject matter that can sustain the interest of the students   

·         Is process and product oriented, with an emphasis on integrated skills and end-of-project refection

·          requires student collaboration and, at the same time, some degree of student autonomy and independence

Also, there are some examples how students can work in a project like: interviewing, letter writing and library searches. Thus, they will be able to use vocabulary and analyzed about the topic in the same time, and all the rest of the class can participate. On the other hand, it is really important that teachers make feedback at the conclusion of the project and at other critical junctures as well.

Rate: 4