Seminar in English Language Teaching (2/2016) - ICT and English Language Teaching and learning (Blog 9)

ICT and English Language Teaching and learning

On March 21, 2017.

     Today I learned with Assistant Professor Dr. Usa Noytim in seminar in English Language Teaching. Before we started the lesson, I watched the video. The video is about effect of new technologies on English. David Crystal talked about internet and history about social network. And teacher showed the her research and ask some questions about the video and students answer. After that we answered a midterm exam. A midterm exam has 3 items, it is about global English, ESL and EFL and the last is about factor of English teaching. 

     The lesson is easy because I can search some information from internet or network. I use social network always and I think it is easy to use it. 

     The history and element of network are difficult because some information about it, it is technical term or particular.

     I will solve to find by using dictionary and search in the internet.

     I felt tired because yesterday, I trained about 21th century teaching skill, so I felt very sleepy.    

Seminar in English Language Teaching (2/2016) - Problem of English Language Teaching (Blog 8)

Problem of English Language Teaching 

On March 14, 2017.

     Today, I learned with Assistant Professor Dr. Usa Noytim. I studied in Seminar in English Language Teaching in room 308. Before the start the lesson, teacher said, today is midterm test but we do not know and she looked serious but she continuous to learn and do not worry. I learned about problem of English Language Teaching. First of all, teacher gave the research and assigned students to read and discuss about this research. The representation is Mr. Watcharapong and he presented in front of the class and concluded that this research had 5 main problems; (1) teacher such as teaching writing,listening and speaking ,using English, incorporating experiential learning into English. (2) student such as not enough to practice, lacking opportunities, thinking in Thai before translate to English. (3) Curricula and textbook such as having too much to cover, lacking expert curriculum advisors. (4) assessment such as assessment of listening, speaking and writing skills. (5) other factors such as inadequate supplies of computer and language laboratories to aid teaching, lacking teacher who were English native speakers. These problems are main point to solve but these problem is very hard problem to solve.  

     This lesson is easy because each problem is which I know from observing and learning.

     This lesson is difficult to solve but easy to learning.

     I have to read a lot of text about these problems to find the way of solving these problems.

     I felt fun because teacher taught by using power point and telling from her experiences about English language teaching problems.