Sunday, April 7, 2013

     Now I am attending the online program, Building Teaching Skills Through The Interactive Web. For me, this is a fantastic opportunity to promote my teaching skills. I have often wondered in what way I can utilize the Internet to enhance my teaching both benefiting students' learning as well as polishing my teaching.
     In the class, I can merely know my teacher through his pictures and the messages he sends me. The experience is actually distinctive. If I have problems, I have to send him a message, awaiting his reply. Probably this is much better than face-to-face discussion, especially because I am not a native speaker. If I don't really understand what my teacher is explaining, I will probably pretend I have got what I want to know. Through the indirect communication, I will have time to re-read theacher's information. The other distinctive one is my classmates;  they are from different places of the world, some of which I have never heard. But their desire to better their teaching is not less aggressive than I.   I am eager to communicate with them on teaching English in their countries. Especially in their classroom settings, what language dominates their teaching, the target language or their mother tongue. In my country, most English teachers prefer using mother tongue as a teaching medium. Besides, I would like to share with them the teaching skills applicable to teaching, and discuss miscellaneous problems. To what percentage, for instance, do they use computer as a teaching aid? For me, I cannot teach without computer. It is my contention that a non-native speaker EFL teacher must be able to use computer in teaching English. For example, in giving a definition, an online e-dictionary will give an EFL teacher a definiton and example sentence with ease. When explaining what avocodo is, a simple on-line image will solve the problem.
     The first-week task is not as difficult as I have expected. But no other classmates have sent me any messages. Nor have I. As for this, I feel a bit lonely. I hope next week, the classroom will be full of discussions.
     

7 comments:

  1. Hi chengkuo
    I am happy to read your blog. There are a lot interesting ideas you have touched upon: Similarities and differences in Teaching English as a Foreign/second language, The use of mother tongue in ELT. The importance of technologies in language learning. These are very importance issues that teachers of English at one time or another have to consider in order to perform well.
    Indeed the use of computers have revolutionarised our way of learning and teaching in many different ways. Subsequent to your concern of the amount of time computers are to be used in and outside the class, I think the appropriate use is more at stake at. But i believe if you can teach with a computer, then you have the potential of teaching in a traditional setting because developpers and online teachers are taking inspiration from the real world.By the way, where did you get your blogger template? from blogger?

    I am looking forward to reading your coming posts.


    Abdoulaye

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    1. Thanks for your comment. As for thetemplate, I join google's blog, and the system offer me some templates automatically.

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