English,
being a global language, enhances the economic competitiveness of a country,
improves its global reach and enables it to better maintain its political security
and interests. A multilingual citizen can better appreciate cultural
differences and be more insightful. As the English teacher in the future, we
much keen on 4 macro skills of teaching English. Form group work presentation of my
classmate, there are consist of six
group six topic that is; teaching speaking, teaching with technology, assessing
and testing, teaching listening, teaching reading and teaching writing. I think
English is becoming more and more important today. That's why before starting teaching
we must know all about it.
Speaking is "the process of building and sharing meaning through
the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in a variety of contexts"
(Chaney, 1998, p. 13). Speaking is a
crucial part of second language learning and teaching.
Today's world requires that the goal of teaching
speaking should improve students' communicative skills.
From the presentation Teaching Speaking by my classmates group one, I learnt
what is speaking, principle for teaching, speaking fluency and accuracy,
provide opportunities for student, plan speaking tasks, design classroom
activities, classroom techniques and tasks and the teacher’s roles in speaking
activities.
Technology plays an
important role in our life. Technology is an increasingly important aspect of
modern school life and has dramatically changed the way teachers and students
go about their daily activities. So, teaching technology is very important to
know and understand. My classmates group two presented Teaching with technology
as the following topics. What is IWB or smart board, advantages of IWB, flip
charts, overhead projector (OHP), Computer or tablet computer, software, how to
teach making recordings and presenting online, using picture, cards and strips
of paper, using realia and other devices, mobile learning. Teaching with technology can deepen student
learning by supporting instructional objectives. However, it can be challenging
to select the “best” tech tools while not loosing sight of your goals for
student learning.
Assessing
and testing is also important for English teacher. We should know and
understand type of assessment, designing and making test, type of test item,
rubric. There are eight type of assessment that is; formative, summative,
informal, diagnostic, placement, progress, achievement and proficiency.
Moreover, These are the steps of designing and making test. First, decide on
the balance of items in a test. Second, have to be extremely careful to write
“Rubric”. Third, give them to colleague to try out. Fourth, decide on our
assessment criteria. Fifth, test need to have validity. Sixth, list exactly
what it is we want to measure. Besides, there are two types or test item direct
test and indirect test. Furthermore, rubric is a multi –purpose scoring guide
for assessing student products and performance. A rubric involves four
components; task description, scale, dimensions and description of the
dimensions.
Teaching
listening skills presents a series of challenges. It is perhaps the most
ephemeral of language skills, hard to understand, teach, and assess. Following
are a number of listening skills, most of which not only benefit the ESL student
but also the native speaker; Basics: Pay
Attention, Practice Active Listening, Pay Attention to Structure, Listen for Key
Words, Key Phrases or Markers. This group is also presented strategies of
listening; top-down strategies and bottom-up strategies. As language teachers,
we need to think of how we can incorporate listening into our teaching and
provide opportunities both inside and outside the classroom for our students to
be exposed to significant listening input.
Teaching
reading is one of the topics that teachers must know. This group presented;
extensive reading, intensive reading, reading activities and reading technique. Extensive reading is reading as much as
possible, for your own pleasure, at a difficulty level at which you can read
smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating to English as you
go. Otherwise, Intensive reading involves learners reading in detail with
specific learning aims and tasks. It can be compared with extensive reading,
which involves learners reading texts for enjoyment and to develop general
reading skills.
Teaching
writing is very interesting for some students but most of students feel bored
to learn writing. My group presented three main topic; being accurate,
encouraging writing and producing a finished product. Firstly, teacher should
teach “nuts and bolts” of writing - teach to use hand writing for the
children. By, training in letter formation by using specially lined paper to
help students imitate typical writing. Then, learn to use punctuation features
in writing. Being accurate, teacher should teach the process of writing as the
following steps; prewriting /planning , drafting, editing, revising and publishing.
Second points, encouraging writing; make students comfortable and enjoy to
write, spontaneous writing : ask students
to writing instantly ( without worrying too much). Moreover, there are folding
story, music and writing and picture and writing. Last, producing a
finished product by using portfolio writing, writing journals, blog and wikis.
Conclusion, I
learn a lot from the class presentations;
teaching speaking, teaching with technology, assessing and testing, teaching
listening, teaching reading and teaching writing. This is a
good idea to share our idea in the classroom. We will learn something new from
friend and the comment from our teacher. I will adapt all of this in my
teaching in the future. Lastly, thanks for all to provide how to teach English
form different skills.
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