Assignment for Day 5
Dear Prof. Jeff,
I already study units 5, 6 and 9 and now I would like to say something about my teaching lessons and the future applying the unit 5 “Using Technology to Teach Listening Skills”.
First, I am a teacher at a secondary school in the countryside in Viet nam. At school I often teacher listening skill every two weeks. There is one listening lesson each unit and others for reading, writing, speaking and PPP lessons. There are 5 – 6 periods each unit. So I usaully teach listening skill as other skills very often. In the teaching listening lessons, I always use a cassette, a disc or a tape and some other visual aids as teaching aids. In each lesson I usually divide it into three parts: pre/while/post listening. Each part I often use different techniques for teaching. The technologies I want to mention here is only a cassette and some other pictures. I don’t have chance to use computers for teaching and learning. There are two computers at school but they only use for writing documents, not for teaching and learning. Our teaching plans are almost written by handwriting. It is difficult to use computers for teaching and learning at my school some coming years.
Next, I study and know all the benefits of using computers and technologies to teach listening skills and other skills. I always like to do that but I am sure that in some years we can not do that in teaching English at school. After this course I will persuade the leaders of school to invest for high technologies in teaching and learning. Now I think I have try my best to learn as much as possible about using and applying technologies in teaching English. I am sure one day I can use all knowledge of this course for using modern technologies for teaching English at my school. I never try to use technologies for teaching English but I imagine what I need to do so I will try to do it in the near future.
In conclusion, I understand and know what to do and use technologies to teach English skills with all the advantages of it. I really want to do it now but we don’t have any chances to do it now. I really hope some days I can do that. After this course I will design some teaching lessons but I know alittle now. I am trying best in this course for future applying and using Technology to Teach Listening Skills.
I always need a lot of your help. Thank you very much.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Son
