Week 3 : The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching

The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching

What is Multimedia?

          Multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way.

Components of Multimedia

          Multimedia is composed of various components: Text, graphics, animation, sound, and video.

The Setting of Multimedia Classroom

          1. MPC-multimedia personal computer

          2. VCD/DVD player-video compound disk/digital video disk

          3. Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system

          4. Overhead/slide projector

          5. Screen/curtain

          6. Projecting apparatus

          7. The Internet access

          8. Cassette tape recorder

The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching

          - The Necessity of development of Modern Educational Technology

          - The Needs of Quality Education

          - The Needs of Students' Cognitive Mental

The Multimedia Teaching

Advantages
          - Arousing the students' interest.
          - Improving students' self-learning ability.
          - Improving students' innovative ability.
          - Cultivating students communication skill.
          - Increasing classroom capacity.

Disadvantages
          - Confusion.
          - Performance on behalf of the lead.
          - Lack of special skills.
          - Over-use of multimedia.
          - Lack of interaction between teachers and students.

Strategies for Using Multimedia
          - Combining Modern Teaching Methods With Traditional Teaching Methods
          - Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching
          - Building the Ideal Relationship Between Teachers and Students

The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching
          1. Scientific principles.
          2. Subsidiary principles.
          3. Interactivity principles.
          4. Combination principles.

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Week 2 : Weblogs enhancing EFL students’ English language learning

Weblogs enhancing EFL students’ English language learning

            According to the article, Weblogs enhancing EFL students English language learning from Usa Noytim that I have read already, I can summarize it as follows.

            The EFL is abbreviated from “English as a Foreign Language”, it just only using English in classes.

            The first one, I will talk about “the purpose” of this paper. This research aimed to address the limitations of lack of a genuine learning environment, especially the limitation of conventional writing in which audience of student’s written work is limitation to teacher and possibly to classmates.

            The second one, I will talk about “the setting and participants”. The participants of this research were twenty undergraduate English major female student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Their ages ranged from 22 to 24 years and they were in the fifth-year of their studies. These student undertook eight semesters of coursework and two semesters.

            The third one is “method”. The method is “short questionnaires”. At the end of the semester, interview questionnaires which comprised of 15 questions eliciting students’ experience of Internet use and Weblog use. Their perceptions of and attitudes towards the use of Weblogs were administered to the students.

            The last one is “the results and the discussion about weblogs”. Student were positive about weblog use and the course. They like weblogs because they aided them in learning English-Developing writing and reading skills. They found that creating, publishing, and editing Blogs was easy. They felt that Weblogs provided another modern mode of communication.

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Week 1 : Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

According to the article, Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes that I have read, I can summarize it as follows.

The first one, I will talk about the purpose of this paper. The purpose of this paper to introduce three ways that weblogs can be used to support ESL classroom learning. The ESL is abbreviated from “English as a Second Language”, it means using English in daily life and using English for learning. We can use in the ESL classroom by means of three distinct types: the tutor weblog, learner weblog and Class weblog.

The second one is “What is a weblogs”. A weblogs can be thought as an online journal that an individual can continuously update with his or her own words, ideas, and through software that enables one to easily do so. Anyone can type, copy and paste can create and maintain weblog. Users can ability to customize the layout of their blog and even add picture to enhance its attractiveness. Furthermore, a weblog is interactive, readers can respond to any given entry with a comment or can discussions with others.

The third one is "Three Types of Weblogs for Use in ESL Classroom".

1. The Tutor Blog. This is a type of weblog that is run by the tutor for the learners. It serves the following purposes:

- It gives daily reading practice to the learners.

- It promotes exploration of English websites.

- It encourages online verbal exchange by use of comment buttons.

- It provides class or syllabus information.

- It serves as a resource of links for self-study.

2. The Learner Blog. These are blogs that are run by individual learners themselves or by small collaborative groups of learners. In ESL, learner blogs suited for reading and writing classes. Students can get writing practice, develop a sense of ownership, and get experience with the practice, legal, and ethical issues of creating a hypertext document.

3. The Class Blog. This type of blog is the result of the collaborative effort of an entire class. The following are some possible uses:

      - In conversation-based classes.

- With intermediate and advanced learners, useful for facilitating project-based language learning and give the opportunity to develop research and writing skill.

- Class blogs could also be used as a virtual space for an international classroom languages exchange by other learner, tutors, parents and friends.

- For reading and writing classes.

By introducing the three types of weblogs above mentioning the software necessary, I hope to draw the attention of other practitioners to both potential that weblogs have to support classroom based ESL  learning and the ease with which an ESL blogging project could be started.

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