Seminar in English Language Teaching (2/2016) - Trends in EFL (Blog 11)

Trends in EFL

On April 11, 2017.

  Today I learned with Assistant Professor Dr. Usa Noytim in seminar in English Language Teaching. Before we started the lesson, we discussed about current trends and issues in English language education Asia. This research has many factors to occur problems about English education such as class hours, national English curriculum, school textbooks, computer assisted for English language education, teacher. Some country in Asia is familiar with Thailand and many problems in primary and secondary English education such as sociocultural or linguistic context, the lack of government support for English language education and class size and hours. And the next, teacher concluded in the topic "Trends in the global ELT" has 9 topics including: first, change in perspective on ELT and Learning is focused on the issues of "World Englishes". Second, change in goals of  ELT and Learning  is focused on developing language skill and mimicking native English speakers of fostering a sense of social responsibility in students. Third, change in teaching approaches is focuses on meaning of context, not grammar but mix many approaches to teach students. Fourth, change in teaching context, curriculum design and assessment is focuses on English language. Fifth, expanding the dimension of communicative competence is focuses on other cultural language and teacher teaches in level local and inter. Sixth, changes in views of an effective English educator, teacher is a native speaker and learn other cultural. Seventh, early start in learning English. Eighth, rapid development and integration of IT in ELT, teacher have to know the using IT and create media to teach students. Ninth, changing roles and increasing responsibilities of teachers, teacher realize that teacher know about own functions and the interaction between teacher and student have to participate about evaluation. And the last, she talked about the 7Cs, CLT use in EFL context and this technique can use with students or not.

     Trends in the global ELT is easy because ELT is the important of teaching English. Teach need to teach English through English language and up to date about trends in teaching to teach students in the classroom.

     Trends in the global ELT is difficult when teacher have to create and up to date and teacher can adopt and adapt to students in the classroom.

     Teacher in the future can solve the problem in the classroom and use the new technique and trends about teaching to improve and develop students in English language.

   I got knowledge about trends in teaching from teacher and teacher taught quickly and race with time but not waste time, she gave content and find information to teach us and she attended to teach us.    

Seminar in English Language Teaching (2/2016) - ICT and English Language Teaching and learning (Blog 10)

ICT and English Language Teaching and learning

On April 4, 2017.

     Today I learned with Assistant Professor Dr. Usa Noytim in seminar in English Language Teaching.I learned and discussed about computer assisted language learning: an introduction by Mark Warschauer. This research have 3 phases of call consisted of behavioristic CALL, communication CALL, and integrative CALL. First, behavioristic CALL implemented in the 1960s and '70s, was based on the then-dominant behaviorist theories of learning. This theory entailed repetitive language drills and can be referred to as " drill and practice". And drill and practice courseware is based on the model of computor as tutor. Second, communication CALL based on the communicative approach. This approach focuses more on using forms rather than on the forms themselves, teaches grammar implicitly rather than explicitly etc. In these programs, like the drill and practice programs mentioned above, the computer remains the computer as tutor, the computer as stimulas and the computer as tool. And the last, the integrative CALL: multimedia is based on two important technological developments of the last decade-multimedia computer and the internet. Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is probably the single computer application to date with the greatest impact on language teaching. This communication can be asynchronous (not simultaneous), synchronous (real time) and not only one-to-one communication, but also one-to-many.
  Computer assisted language learning is easy because this technique can use and find the information easily and the most of people can do it.
   But this technique have to use imagination from own idea and teacher have to self study before the teacher teaches students and create this technique to students is interesting and useful.
   I can solve the problem by using self study and find many medias before teach.
    Today, I felt very fun to take note and I like when teacher taught because students attended and look at her and take note and don't gossip with other students.