Being EFL teacher and freelance journalist, I often select acute topics for discussion, highlight new tendencies and approaches to this sphere of knowledge. I try to catch up with modern teaching techniques and I intend to continue my education. Courses’ program Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web is a wonderful opportunity to implement computer-assisted language learning in the classroom.
I strongly believe that my participation in online teacher-training course will benefit my students of EFL, ESP and Business English courses.
Firstly, I’m thrilled with the idea of developing a new course for CALL. Unfortunately, our University doesn’t have such courses to satisfy international education requirements. Introducing aspects of Web language studies into the curriculum and updating existing courses are the primary goals of my future work.
Secondly, I plan to start up a new Internet project under working title “Web-friendly English: Social Networking”. The main goal of the project is EFL teaching of volunteers from all over the world using social networks only.
Thirdly, I intend to organize an English-speaking club for students and teachers of our University. Club activities would be:
(1) Sharing new EFL teaching materials, lesson plans and programs
(2) Discussions and debates
(3) Seminars and workshops
(4) Games (Things, Monopoly, Mafia, etc.)
(5) Watching the movies
(6) Using Internet to twit, blog and skype in English
(7) Creating and improving our club’s site.
My strong desire is to make a valuable contribution to interactive EFL studies in Russia, especially in the Far East, Amur region, where I live and work. I am honored to do it with the help of online teacher-training course under the guidance of international specialists and educators.
Marie,
ReplyDeleteyour plans are really ambitious! Social networks are a big thing right now, so I wish you success in fulfilling the plan.
I work for a language school in Belarus, we have implemented some of the ideas that you list in point 3 of your plan (e.g. we have so-called "Movie Nights" and the debate club), but the Internet is used as a promotion tool only, not as an instrument of teaching. Hope the course will give us food for thought and implementation.
Hi!, Definitively I had Initial assignments anxiety! Interactive web creating the blog was very interesting for me, easy, it was a little confusing in some minor details, but done successfully!. Know I have the anxiety of how to use these tools to teaching English for tourism! hoping at coming weeks will have final relief!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nadzeya and Jorge! I feel very enthusiastic about the course,too. I hope to implement all the new stuff in ESL teaching.
ReplyDeleteHi Marie,
ReplyDeleteYou've certainly got lots of ambitious ideas up your sleeve. Personally, I find them wonderful.
Here's wishing you good luck and lots of fun!
Mena
Hello Marie,
ReplyDeleteI have a family feel with you. I’m an English teacher and I study Literature (I'm a freelance Copywriter, too). Though they seem distinctive, Literature and Journalism share a number of similarities. They both use language to convey the human experience.
On the other hand, I also want to integrate technology tools to my teaching, in order to improve my students learning experience. The “know how” is not clear to me, so I’m sure this course will help me to answer my doubts and questions.
I wish you all the best with your projects. The “Web-friendly English: Social Networking” sounds a great plan. Don’t give up and go for it.
My kind regards,
Marshiari
Hi Marie
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help reading your smart ideas. I wanted to wish you success in your projects. They seem to be really wonderful. Go ahead and good luck.
Tanya
Hi Marie
ReplyDeleteWow, you are busy and ful of great ideas. it is wonderful to be working with people like you who are so creative and full of energy.
Can you try to change the default language of you blog to english. There should be a language setting in "preferences" from your dashboard.
Robert
Thank you all!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to your blogs right now.
Robert, I appreciate your comments and what you did for us. I'm trying to change the default language. That's great that you've noticed.