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Firstly, I want to take this opportunity to express a thousand of gratitude to my beloved lecturer, M N Y for all of her hard work in imparting skills and delivering useful knowledge to my friends and I. The learning experience with her throughout the semester is very pleasing and fun. Regarding the assignment for the subject Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills in the Primary ESL Classroom we are required to produce a lesson plan as well as to conduct a Microteaching focusing on listening and speaking skills. During the process of completing this assignment, there are so many beneficial experiences that I have gained. Based on the microteaching conducted, I have identified some strengths and weaknesses that I can use to improvise my skill in teaching for future purposes.
Before the microteaching session, we have to produce an individual lesson plan that suits a topic within the KSSR English Language Curriculum Specification. For the individual task, I have chosen the topic “Safari Park” for year 3 KSSR students. The activities that I have planned are “Picture Viewing”, “Action Song” and “Missing Lyrics”. All of the activities are conducted to enhance the listening and speaking skills of the students as well as to improve their vocabulary. According to Willis (2008), by hearing a song, students can enhance their musical-rhythmic intelligent which is related to the responsiveness to listening to or performing music. Therefore, the activity of listening as well as singing the song can help the students with their listening skills. Other than that, music can trigger the students’ interest in learning since listening to music is fun and relaxing. Next, we are required to work in group and choose the best lesson plan for the micr...
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During the first day of ESL academy, I realized the inadequacy of my knowledge concerning the needs of ELL students and how woefully lacking my instruction had been for former students whose first language was not English. Partici...
I chose to read and comment on Barbara Kiefer’s “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Kiefer’s main point in writing this essay was to get the message across that children enjoy picture books that allow them to identify and make connections with the characters or the plots, and that while reading and analyzing the pictures, they gain a better sense of aesthetics and how to interpret them.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book for children who are learning concepts such as: letters, numbers (1-10), shapes, colors, opposites (10 sets), seasons, and weather patterns. Each concept has a matching picture. For example the #5 has a picture of the number and five rubber ducks on a bathtub. These visuals allow children to associate the concepts easier. Real pictures show actual numbers, letters, shapes, figures, and toy creatures.
Though commonly only viewed as learning materials for younger elementary-age students, picture books are an innovative and exciting teaching tool for older
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racie Allen of the comedy team of Burns and Allen was once asked how one should speak French. She replied, “Well, you speak it the same way you speak English; you just use different words.” When trying to assist in instructing English language learners, they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master, as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned in our classroom instruction, such as lesson preparation, building background, and comprehensible input, we can indeed teach our future English language learners all the right moves with all the right words.
I agree with the statements above, because we have different types of learners when it comes to storybooks. Children, who have a hard time with reading, tend to shy away from books with just words. It helps the teacher when she can select a storybook with interesting pictures to go along with the words, because it will help to grab the child/children’s attention. In my experience in the classroom, I have found that picture books that are colorful, playful, and use rhyming words are the most fun when teaching young children. Showing the children the pictures while you read; helps to engage
In doing so I had chosen two activities based on the learning domain literacy, the first resource exposes the child to blocks and the second was an alphabetic sensory table, both of theses resources provided the basic understanding of how literacy can develop from play based learning. Blocks can be placed in any part of the early childhood setting either indoors or outdoor play spaces, however the sensory table can be used in any indoor play space area. As educators we all know that the first few years of any child’s life is essential to their learning, development and growth, and with theses activities we can give new meaning to the interactions young children have towards language, communication and their
A children book is an extremely substantial and significant form of literature. It educates, affects and amuses at the same time. Although its main audience are the small children, the majority of adults in fact enjoy this type of literature as much as children do. This can be explained by the capacity of children literature to deal with great themes and topics that are too large for adult fiction. (Philip Pullman) For its great importance, the style and technique by which it is produced, is a major concern for both of the authors and critics. One technique has a particular impact in the children book, that is to say, illustration. Bearing the visual nature of children in mind, we understand that their books should be delivered with
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It is very important to understand that in everyday communication we are either the speaker or listener and it’s important that we do those jobs as best we can in order to have a healthy communication relationship. This activity was very useful because I got to reflect on my past successes and failures in my communicating strategies and in doing so I can improve and adapt to become a better communicator and listener. I believe that this assignment is very useful because it is real life experiences that may occur again and I can better assess the situation and use the appropriate communicating strategy necessary. This reflection will help me in my personal development by giving me situational experience that I will be able to correctly approach in and out of the
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In the process of completing this coursework, I have realised that every teacher should be all-rounded and equipped with adequate skills of educating others as well as self-learning. As a future educator, we need make sure that our knowledge is always up-to-date and applicable in the process of teaching and learning from time to time. With these skills, we will be able to improvise and improve the lesson and therefore boost the competency of pupils in the process of learning. In the process of planning a lesson, I have changed my perception on lesson planning from the student’s desk to the teacher’s desk. I have taken the responsibility as a teacher to plan a whole 60-minutes lesson with my group members. This coursework has given me an opportunity