Learning
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In my class I
have learned about teaching speaking, teaching with technology, assessment and
testing, teaching listening, teaching reading and teaching writing from group
of friends had presentation that it is the important contents for learning.
Each group had different contents and technique for presentation.
First,
They talk about teaching speaking. Speaking happens in real time usually the
person you are talking to is waiting for you to speaking right then. When you
speak you cannot edit and revise what you wish to say, as you can if you
writing. The goal of teaching speaking skills is communicative efficiency.
Learners should be able to make themselves understood, using their current
proficiency to the fullest. They should try to avoid confusion in the message
due to faulty pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, and to observe the social
and cultural rules that apply in each communication situation. In everyday
communication, spoken exchanges take place because there is some sort of
information gap between the participants. Communicative output activities
involve a similar real information gap. In order to complete the task, students
must reduce or eliminate the information gap. In these activities, language is
a tool, not an end in itself.
Second,
they talk about teaching with technology. Teaching with technology have a
benefit for teachers in the present because technology help to facilitate
and easy for learning and teaching. We can choose the appropriate technologies
and design learning activities to help students reach the learning goals, and
even employ technology to assess student learning. If we use technology
effectively in teaching we must have knowledge about their technology such as
IWB because IWB is the most useful material of classroom technology. It’s
all the material whether writing audio and moreover it’s very easy to use it
just tab the board with the fingers or specially use with configured pens.
Third,
Assessment and testing that I presented. There are 8 types of assessment such
as formative, summative, informal, diagnostic, placement, progress, achievement
and proficiency. Although as teacher we sometimes feel that we don’t have a lot
of influence on the design of public exams, we often find ourselves writing
process and achievement test. Now, let move to type of test item. There are
many forms for designing and making test such as the first, decide on our
assessment criteria. Second, test need to have validity. Third, list exactly
what it is we want to measure. Forth, decide on the balance of items in a test.
Fifth, have to be extremely careful to write Rubric. Last, give theme to
colleague or student to try out. There are 2 types of test item is direct
test item and indirect item. Direct test items based on four macro skill as speaking,
listening, reading and writing. An indirect test items have eight kinds; gap
fills, cloze, multiple choice, true/false, jumbled sentence, sentence
transformation, proofreading and matching. The last content is about rubric.
Rubric is a multi-purpose scoring guide for assessing student products and
performances.
Fourth,
Language learning depends on listening. Listening provides the aural input that
serves as the basis for language acquisition and enables learners to interact
in spoken communication. The strategies of listening such as techniques,
comprehension and activities. The top-down strategies of listening such as
listening for the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences and summarizing.
Given the importance of listening in language learning and teaching, it is
essential for language teachers to help their students become effective
listeners. In the communicative approach to language teaching, this means
modeling listening strategies and providing listening practice in authentic
situations: those that learners are likely to encounter when they use the
language outside the classroom.
Fifth,
teaching reading with extensive reading is reading as much as possible for your
own pleasure at a difficultly level at which you can read smoothly and quickly
without looking up words or translating to English as you go. Intensive reading
occurs when the learner is focused on the language rather than the text. For
example, the learner may be answering comprehension questions and learning new
vocabulary. Reading activities that we can ask students to do almost anything
with a reading text. Here are some of the common activities.
Sixth,
teaching how to write effectively is one of the most important life-long skills
educators impart to their students. When teaching writing, educators must be
sure to select resources and support materials that not only aid them in
teaching how to write, but that will also be the most effective in helping
their students learn to write. Going through the full writing process pre-writing,
drafting, revising, rewriting and publishing can be a lot of work, but it’s
always worth the effort. Each stage of the writing process builds on the last,
and each subsequent stage would be much harder if the previous one hadn’t been
completed. When students read the essay in its final, polished form, it becomes
clear that following the complete writing process produces the best essay.
To
sum up, from the presentation of each group about teaching speaking, teaching
with technology, assessment and testing, teaching listening, teaching
reading and teaching writing that there are very important for English language
teacher. I can useful for learning and apply for learning and teaching in the
future.
