Week 5

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Week 4: Developing Criteria for Textbook Evaluation-David Williams

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Checkpoint 1: Examples of Digital Language Learning Materials (DLLM)

·         POWER POINT (Teaching Aid)

·         FACEBOOK (Discussion and Forum)

·         YOU TUBE

·         BLOG

·         MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

·         WISC-ONLINE (A digital library of Web-based learning resources called 'learning objects)

·         JORUM

 

Checkpoint 2: SLA Theories and Principles

Theories:

a)     Behaviourisistic

b)    Interactionist

c)     Innatist

 

Principles:

 

a)     Materials should achieve impact

b)    Materials should help learners to feel at ease

c)     Materials should help learners to develop confidence

d)    What is being taught should be perceived by learners as relevant and useful

e)     Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment

f)     Learners must be ready to acquire the points being taught

g)    Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

h)    The learners’ attention should be drawn to linguistic features of the input.

i)     Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes.

j)     Materials should take into account that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed

k)    Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes

l)     Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction.

m)   Materials should not rely too much on controlled practice

n)    Materials should provide opportunities for outcome and feedback

o)    Materials should help the learner to develop cultural awareness and sensitivity.

p)    Materials should reflect the reality of language use.

q)    Materials should help learners to learn in ways similar to the circumstances in which they will have to use the language.

r)     Materials should help to create readiness to learn.

 

Checkpoint 3: Rough outline of own DLLM

1.      Blogging in character

·         Pick characters from a book, such as a history book. Then, have the students to journal in their new persona. Teachers assign identities for all of the books that the students have read and let the conversation begin.

 

2.     Art gallery

·         Take photos of student work (or scan and save as images), and then have students to add their artworks to blog posts. To encourage writing skills, ask students to describe their art and the creation process.

 

Checkpoint 4: Summarize explanation for each criteria

1)     Errors:

·         There are two types of errors which are serious and less serious. Less serious is referring to a situation when work of the users are disturbed while serious is when the users’ outputs are endangered.

 

2)    Efficiency:

·         It explains how well the experienced users can operate an application after they have mastered it.

 

3)    Learnability:

·         It refers to how long the beginners use the system before they learn the essential skills which are necessary for them to complete tasks.

 

4)    Memorability:

·         It explains the ability of an occasional user who has previously used the system to remember its operational principle.    

 

 

 

Pedagogical Usability

1.      Feedback

·         DLLM should provide students with encouraging and immediate feedback.

2.     Motivation

            ·         Support the direction of individual's general behavior

 

3.      Goal orientation

·         The goal of LM should be clear.

 

 

4.      Learner control

·         Learner’s memory should be put into optimal.

5.     Applicability

·         The knowledge should be transferable to other context.

6.     Added value

·         Value acts as an additional function towards learning.

7.     Learner activity

·         DLLM plays an important role in students’ activity.

8.     Cooperative/Collaborative learning

·         DLLM enables collaborative work with the teacher as a control.

9.     Valuation of previous knowledge

·         Include previous knowledge as an advantage for the learners.

10.     Flexibility

·         Contains diverse assignment, adaptable, suitable and fit learners’ need.

 

 

 

Reflection..

After completing the task, I found that Digital language Learning Material acts as a medium which may develop the knowledge, and at the same time increase the learner’s interest to learn in a different way. In my own view, digital language learning materials can enhance one’s creativity as a whole. After I had watched the three videos, I can differentiate the different elements within the DLLM. There are two which were the learning objects and learning materials. As a pre-service teacher, we need to know the criteria in developing and evaluating digital language learning materials in order to ensure that it can be used to deliver the knowledge or not. One of the most important criteria was the acceptability which consists of two. There are the social acceptability and practical acceptability. Those are very important in a way to know that the material is working or not and whether it can helps the student to learn better.

 

 

 

Materials Development:

Tutorial Week 2- Principles for Materials Development

A) Watch Jeremy Short’s presentation on his take of materials development.

Please take note on the reasons he created the materials and the characteristics of his materials.

Which principles for materials development did Short apply when producing his materials?

Answer:

Jeremy created the materials after he found that his students feel that textbook is boring and also expensive. Later, he managed to create interesting, fun and engaging learning through visual and audio. Hence, he implements the story telling into narrative which known as the graphic novel textbooks. It is important to ensure that the learning materials are interesting in a way to attract learner’s interest and understanding.

When producing his materials, Short applies the principle of Materials Development which found in Tomlinson’s Principle. Short believes that materials should achieve impact in order to attract learner’s curiosity, interest and attention through novelty, variety, attractive presentation and appealing content. Materials are created to help learners to learn the language with texts and illustration that relates to their own culture.

 

 

B) Design and complete the following diagram.

 

 

The reason why we choose to draw our diagram in this manner is because we believe that these aspects are inter-related with each other. Country’s vision is placed on top of the diagram because it works as a mover in the society which leads the parents to set a goal in their children’s academic performance. Later, curriculum goal and objective are created to suit previous relation between parent’s goal and country’s vision. Learners are expected to be able to master all the learning skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Then, we can see the development of two principles which are the principles of teaching and learning and the principles of SLA. In the principles of teaching and learning, the styles of teaching and materials play an important role in ensuring the effectiveness of pedagogy and getting into effective language learning materials. Teachers can vary the learning materials according to curriculum requirements and learners’ interest. It is best to create fun and engaging materials such as via flashcards, videos and ICT. Connecting SLA research to materials development, there are principles in SLA that affect the designed materials. Moreover, teacher’s belief and rational should be based on the principles. From many perspectives, teachers believe that every student has different learning styles. Teacher sees the importance of creating effective materials to cope this problem. The rational is that teaching and learning process are influencing each other in a way that the teachers should be aware of learners’ proficiency level. The learners should be given tasks based on their proficiency level. 

 

Reflection…

After completing the discussion for tutorial week 2, I am now able know more and explore deeply about why teaching materials are created. In the video itself, Jeremy Short had includes some of the reason why he came up with learning material that he mentioned about, which is the graphic novel textbook. Based on my own understanding, we as a pre-service teacher needs to have a well-understanding regarding the preference of our future students in order to create a good learning process in our classroom. When I referred back to my own learning experience during my secondary school, our English teacher will ask the whole class on what types of learning method that we are comfortable with in regards to ensure that we will be able to learn gradually according to the flows. Despite, there are two types of learners in our classroom. That is why our teacher used two different learning approaches. I can now understand why she done that before. As a teacher, we cannot simply assume that all the students can understand and get what they have learnt in the class. Some might be yes but some might not. So, in the future, I will use implement the knowledge for the process of teaching and learning. Besides, I can also improve myself through developing the skills and the knowledge on creating the learning materials for my students.

Write an article on the topic ‘Integrating Technology in Teaching Writing’

  The learning of English has become more important due to the development of world and technology. As a results, teachers’ are now using some of the technology to interact with their students.  Using technology in teaching and learning is very common nowadays. It is no longer a new thing to us as it seems like everyone was using it. 
  In my opinion, I think that using such technology in teaching writing is good. One of it is the Electronic portfolio or E-portfolio. Through E-portfolio, ones can published their work online and their friends will be able to give feedback and comments. Besides that, the students are able to expand their creativity on using the templates. By using E-portfolio, they have the freedom to come up with any ideas which is relevant and acceptable. 
  However, there are the disadvantages of using it. The first one is the students will tend to use informal writing habits such as using short forms like what they do when using Facebook. The second one is decreased educational effectiveness within a classroom and allow for problems down the line in the child's schooling.
  In conclusion, the using of technology is good but some may say that it is not as they have their own reason why they said so. So, there is no right or wrong answer for this. It depends on someone on how they think they can deal with it.

Mini Test

Question 2

You are teaching the theme ‘Environment’ to a Form 3 class with intermediate level of proficiency. Describe one activity on how to integrate the following thinking skills into your lesson.

a) Analysis

Several different passages are given to the students and they are ask to read through it. After that, the teacher ask them to identify the hook used in the introductory paragraph.

b) Application

The teacher ask the students to mind mapping their ideas regarding the effects of global warming. Then, each and everyone of them need to write their answer on the board. The teacher will then discussed whether the answers are acceptable or not. At the end, they need to create topic sentence for each answer.

I have a dream- Martin Luther King

-I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King Jr.    August 28, 1963

I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; thal all men are created equal".

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father died, land of pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring".

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvacious slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring, and when this happens,

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last"!