Hi All!
One more
week passed. What is an outcome?
An outcome,
as usually, is fascinating. I knew a lot from our readings and recourses. For the first, 'Teaching
Pronunciation to adult English Language learners' (www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/pronumciation.html)
article drew my attention to evidence-based strategies for teaching pronunciation. I
find ‘Pronunciation checklist’ designed by Nora Samosir very helpful as we
develop our students’ pronunciation goal. The article provides the number of
activities to help learners use word stress correctly, which I’ve already
started to use at the beginning of my classes.
My personal
finding of this week is Larry Ferlazzo’s list of best sites. The ‘English
Central’,’Art of storytelling’, ‘Vocaroo’, ‘Blabberze’ are those I’ve started
to use for my classes right after I knew about them.
The next
step I made new discovery opening a Delicious planet. This easy to use bookmarking
system lets me keep my own track of the useful links ever found. I can access
it from anywhere, share others bookmarks, edit ‘tags’ to be more precise. There
is an option to make a link private, which I like. In fact, it is a wonderful ‘boat’
in the information ‘ocean’.
Finally, Project
Samples were very helpful to grasp an idea of our final project. I analyzed
Aleyda Linares project (https://alegrammarwork.wordpress.com). It is definitely
worth of attention in terms of introducing the class blog.
Summing up,
I consider this week recourses are underestimated for our everyday teaching practice.
Hugs,
Marina,
Kyrgyzstan.