Learning log (Inside classroom) 4 th Week

          On 21st July 2014, in the class, Group of friend have presented about assessing and testing, teaching listening, teaching reading and teaching writing that it is the useful contents for teacher. Each group had different contents and process for presentation. Therefore, I have learned about assessment and testing, teaching listening, teaching reading and teaching writing on this class.

                First group, Group of friend presented about assessing and testing. Assessing is important method for teacher because students are often assessed and tested to see how well they have done. There are 8 types of assessment: formative, summative, informal, diagnostic, placement, progress, achievement and proficiency. Next, Teachers have to design and make a test. We often find ourselves writing progress and achievement test. There are 2 types of test item are direct test item and indirect item. Direct test items include speaking, listening, reading and writing that it is based on 4 macro skills. An indirect test items have 8 kinds: gap fills, cloze, multiple choice, true/false, jumbled sentence, sentence transformation, proofreading and matching. Finally, a rubric is a multi-purpose scoring guide for assessing student products and performances.

Second group, teaching listening provides the aural input that serves as the basis for language acquisition and enables learners to interact in spoken communication.  Strategies of listening are techniques, activities, and comprehension. In addition, teaching listening two styles are Listening diphthong  and Listening Comprehension.

Third group, teaching reading also helps students to learn and get English. There are two general approaches to teaching of reading skill is extensive reading and intensive reading. Extensive reading is reading as much as possible for your own pleasure at a difficultly level at which you can read smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating to English as you go. Intensive reading occurs when the learner is focused on the language rather than the text

Fourth, teaching writing involves a series of steps to follow in producing a finished piece of writing. Educators have found that by focusing on the process of writing. By breaking down writing step-by-step, there are five steps of writing process: pre-writing, revising, editing and publishing.

 Conclusion, On this class, each group about assessment and testing, teaching listening, teaching reading and teaching writing. There is useful knowledge to apply this knowledge for use in the future.

Leaning log (Inside Classroom) 3 rd Week

Learning about teaching speaking and teaching with technology.

On 15 th July 2014, I have studied Curriculum and Learning Management in English Subject again. This class, we learned about teaching speaking and teaching with technology. Group of friend in our class had presentation about teaching speaking and teaching with technology that it is the important contents for teacher. Each group had different contents and technique for presentation.

First group, they presented about teaching speaking. Speaking happen in real time usually the person you are talking to is waiting to be waiting for you to speaking right. Students have very few opportunities to use the target language outside the classroom, therefore; teacher should be give students practice with both fluency and accuracy. Moreover, teacher can use classroom techniques and tasks for teach speaking skill, such as: Information gap, Jigsaw activities, Building the speaking habit, the hot seat, and etc.

Second group, they presented about teaching with technology. Before you will teach by using  technology, you should be think select the best method and should be prepare and try new things out, after that; need to be sure with new things. There are materials of classroom technology; for example: IWB or smart board that it is the most useful materials of classroom technology, flip charts, computer, overhead projector ( OHP), and etc.

To summarize, the presentation of each group about teaching speaking and teaching with technology. There are useful knowledge of all students and they can applied this knowledge for use in the future.

Leaning log (Inside Classroom) 2 nd Week

Learning about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Content-Based Instruction (CBI) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

On 1st July 2014, This class I have learned about meaning and principle of teaching methods. There are three methods that it is a popular method for teaching English in the present: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Content-Based Instruction (CBI) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) Moreover, I have learned about how to do lesson plan too.

       The first method is Communicative language teaching (CLT). Now, It is the most popular method for teaching English. This method has principles to follow like make real communicating (listening, writing, reading, and speaking) to students. The learner to experiments and try out provide opportunities for learner to experiment and try out what they know. Therefore, this method make student discover grammar and develop both accuracy and fluency.

       The second method is Content-Based Instruction (CBI). It designed to provide second-language learners instruction in content and language. CBI lesson are design by content that students have to learn and ability of students.

      The third method is task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) this method use of task of the core unit of planning and instruction in language. Besides, a task is an activity or goal that is carried out using language. Thus, the main points of TBLT are process, communication, meaning and purposeful activities and tasks.

       The last one, I have learned about the example of lesson plan. In the lesson plan include are name of unit, number of lesson, unit aim, objective, standard, pre-task, task cycle and Language focus.

       Thereby, this class I have learned about meaning and principles of three methods for teaching English and how to do lesson plan. After this class, I knew more the information and understood about meaning and principles of three methods for teaching English and how to do the lesson plan, other than; I can use this knowledge in the future.

Learning outside classroom

Teaching Conversational Skills

In the present, English Language is language center for communication of people.  Most parents hope to their children can speak English well and can use conversation well too so parents and teachers should be practice about conversation. Most English learners feel that they need more conversation practice. 

Now, teachers often teach about reading, writing, grammar, and etc.  However, In fact conversation is the important skill for students, therefore; they need English to communicate first and it is the most important skill. Although, grammar, writing and other skills are all very important, but in the students' minds conversation is the most important. Unfortunately, teaching conversational skills is much more challenging that teaching grammar. When teacher teach about conversation, students feels very happy because students don't have an opinion on the subject and students have an opinion, but are worried about what the other students might say or think. Pragmatically, conversation lessons and exercises are intended to improve conversational skills. For this reason teachers find it helpful to first focus on building conversation skill. In addition, Implementing this approach can begin slowly by providing students with short role plays using cue cards. When students go out into the "real" world, they will want to say what they mean. Nevertheless, taking out the personal investment factor can help students first become more confident in using English. 

To summarize, Conversation is the most important skill in the students' minds. Therefore, teachers need to provide learning conversation to students because most English learners feel that they need more conversation practice and they can use knowledge about conversation in the future.

Resoruce:  By Kenneth  Beare
http://esl.about.com/od/modernteachingtechniques/a/teaching_english_conversation_skills.htm