Week 4: Teaching Reading, writing, vocabulary with internet, Technology enhanced Lesson plan, and Class issue for final project

Gradually this Web skills course makes me more engaging throughout the week with lots of reading assignments, discovering web pages relevant to my teaching context, participation in discussion board. But I have discovered that internet can be meaningfully used to develop our lessons, improve students’ language skill and present the lessons to interesting and relevantly diversified ways. The internet gives students variety and choice, since they have the enormous number of sites to choose from… the Web materials are completely authentic, unabridged, and not prepared with a learner in mind, which can be sometimes difficult in terms of language, but extremely rewarding when students realize that what they read or write is real and belongs to the outside world, not the world of the classroom and textbook (Jarek Krajka).” In this particular week 4, I have learned especially how to teach students writing and writing skills with the integration of technology more specifically ‘the use of the internet as a teaching aid, or as a teaching medium (Jarek Krajka).’ From the article “Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction” by Jarek Krajka, I have learned how we can make a proper use of internet to teach our students different genres of writing. Various web pages on internet can provide students authentic materials to motivate them to write meaningfully. Besides we with the help of internet can create appropriate context in teaching and writing in class. A lesson integrated with internet provides students with choice, variety, authenticity, and recency in the classroom. I have learned writing instruction should not be completely based on online. It should be combination of offline and online. The online writing activities will be followed by offline activities. Offline activities should be designed to teach students the layout of the specific writing genres, vocabulary, new language structure, while the online activities will provide them the appropriate context and learning it meaningfully. We can simply utilize three internet things: website, e-mail, and web publishing to make it certain. From the article, ‘Three extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books’ by Mei-Ya Liang, I have learnt how we can make our students find interest in reading by disseminating the charge of selecting books to learners, how they can choose books adherence to their level and likeness, and how we can make them think critically with the books while developing other skills.

In this week, I also practice how to write technology enhanced lesson plans and look at the sample of this type of lesson plans. Here I also think of the problem and issue my class face in learning English, and this reflection will help me to develop my final project.