Week 3 Reflections

Hello, everyone!

Week has been almost done and we again have learned and done a lot of work.

There has been a lot of reading this week. I read the articles concerning CALL for listening, speaking and pronunciation skills and lesson plans. I especially liked the article 'Developing listening skills with Authentic Materials' by Lindsay Miller. I agree with her saying that listening has been relegated to a secondary position in the English language teaching classroom. She explained clearly and presented some useful activities using authentic materials to help learners develop listening skills by using authentic materials. Developing listening skills with Authentic Materials

I visited a lot of websites and discussed about them with my classmates on Nicenet. I liked BBC site with useful activities to practice pronunciation ( BBC Pronunciation). I visited and liked the site one of classmates suggested NPR also for listening skills.

There are so many activities on the web to help us make our teaching better. I explored the suggested sites and I'm going to use them in my classroom.

I visited so many sites and they need a place for storing. There is solution to that 'problem' too! This week I have completed task and created my own page for storing favorite sites. I have created it using  Delicious and I posted my URL on the class wiki. I bookmarked the sites I explored during this week.

I also read and discussed on Nicenet one of a past simple project report. I understood what my final project would be like.

This third week was fulfilled with so many reading and I have learned new things concerning teaching by using technology. I wish I had had English classes that included technology and more creative activities when I had been in Primary School.

That's all from me for this week!

Bojana