English camp

About me

My name is Khanitta Taamat

My nickname is Puy

I was born on October9, 1988

I am 22 years old
Email Khanitta_puy@hotmail.com

I live in MahasaraKham province

I am fourth year student. I am studying in faculty of Education, Majoring in English.

Seminar

Seminar and developing Teaching's Experiences

The research

Improving  Matthayomsuksa 2 Students’ Writing Skill by Using Comic Strip

                                    

Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to (1) designs the effectiveness of English writing activities by using comic strips with a required efficiency of 70/70. (2) examine the effectiveness indexes of using comic strips to improve writing  skills. (3) compare the English writing skills  before and after using comic strips . The samples were 50 Mathtayomsuksa 2 students selected by cluster random sampling. The instruments used in the experiment  were 3 lesson plans which were emphasized on improving English writing skills by using comic strips and pre-test and post-test. The data were statistically analyzed by mean, percentage, standard deviation and t-test.

 The results of this study revealed that English writing activities by using comic strips reached its efficiency of 64.07/61.33. It was lower than the criterion (70/70). The effectiveness index was 0.43indicated that the students could improve their learning at 0.43%.The post-test scores of the students were significantly higher than pre-test scores of the students at the .05 level.

 It shows that using comic strips to improve writing skills has achieved goal. Comic strips could help the teachers explore a variety of topics, engender useful grammar and vocabulary exercises, provide a humorous and familiar escape for pupils. And comic strips could help the students improve their writing skills. It was not only sparked the students to write but inspired them to study English.

Course Design.........Call

Call project
Call1

Call2


Video teaching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sMDJc80ps


 

Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. These intelligences are:

•Linguistic intelligence ("word smart")
•Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
•Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
•Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
•Musical intelligence ("music smart")
•Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
•Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
•Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")

http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.php

CLIL

CLIL
CLIL aims to introduce students to new ideas and concepts in traditional curriculum subjects (often the humanities), using the foreign language as the medium of communication - in other words, to enhance the pupils' learning experience by exploiting the synergies between the two subjects. This is often particularly rewarding where there is a direct overlap between the foreign language and the content subject — eg Vichy France, Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War.
http://www.cilt.org.uk/secondary/14-19/intensive_and_immersion/clil.aspx

 Teaching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoVuMgcu1U

Speaking

Speaking plans



Teaching speaking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOv3HuQs4Kg

Listening

Listening plan
Reading plan1
Reading plan 2

Writing plan

Writing
Writing plan1
Writing plan2
Writing plan3

Video writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f9tXmK6pVbo

Reading Plan

Reading

Reading plan
reading powerpoint

Curriculum 1..................CBI plan

Content Based Instruction in EFL Contexts

Stephen Davies
sdavies [at] miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
Miyazaki International College (Miyazaki, Japan)

Introduction

Content based instruction (CBI) is a teaching method that emphasizes learning about something rather than learning about language. Although CBI is not new, there has been an increased interest in it over the last ten years, particularly in the USA and Canada where it has proven very effective in ESL immersion programs. This interest has now spread to EFL classrooms around the world where teachers are discovering that their students like CBI and are excited to learn English this way.

What Types of Content Based Instruction Are There?

The Sheltered Model

Sheltered and adjunct CBI usually occurs at universities in English L1 contexts. The goal of teachers using sheltered and adjunct CBI is to enable their ESL students to study the same content material as regular English L1 students. Sheltered CBI is called "sheltered" because learners are given special assistance to help them understand regular classes. Two teachers can work together to give instruction in a specific subject. One of the teachers is a content specialist and the other an ESL specialist. They may teach the class together or the class time may be divided between the two of them. For example, the content specialist will give a short lecture and then the English teacher will check that the students have understood the important words by reviewing them later. This kind of team teaching requires teachers to work closely together to plan and evaluate classes. It has been used successfully at the bilingual University of Ottawa, where classes are taught in English and French, (Briton, 1989).  

The Adjunct Model

Adjunct classes are usually taught by ESL teachers. The aim of these classes is to prepare students for "mainstream" classes where they will join English L1 learners. Adjunct classes may resemble EPA or ESP classes where emphasis is placed on acquiring specific target vocabulary; they may also feature study skills sessions to familiarize the students with listening, note taking and skimming and scanning texts. Some adjunct classes are taught during the summer months before regular college classes begin, while others run concurrently with regular lessons.

The Theme Based Model

Theme based CBI is usually found in EFL contexts. Theme based CBI can be taught by an EFL teacher or team taught with a content specialist. The teacher(s) can create a course of study designed to unlock and build on their own students' interests and the content can be chosen from an enormous number of diverse topics.

How Does Theme Based CBI Differ from Sheltered and Adjunct Models?

Theme based CBI is taught to students with TEFL scores usually in the range 350 to 500. These scores are lower than the TEFL 500 score which is often the minimum requirement for students who want to study at universities in English L1 contexts. Because of the lower proficiency level of these students, a standard "mainstream" course, such as "Introduction to Economics" will have to be redesigned if it is to be used in a  theme based  EFL class. For example, complicated concepts can be made easier to understand by using posters and charts, (Mercerize, 2000, p.108).

Syllabus Design for Theme Based CBI

Here is the syllabus for a theme based CBI psychology class that I team taught with a psychologist:

• Unit 1 Introduction to psychology
• Unit 2 Types of learning
• Unit 3 Advertising and psychological techniques
• Unit 4 Counseling
• Unit 5 Psychological illnesses
• Unit 6 Project work

Each unit took from two to three weeks to complete. The students had two classes per week and each class lasted for two and a half hours. The syllabus that we used is clearly different from a conventional Introduction to Psychology class. Our aim was to allow the students to explore various aspects of psychology rather than attempting to give them a thorough grounding in a subject which, we believed, would have been too difficult for them to understand at this stage. In fact one of the strengths of theme based CBI is its flexibility; teachers can create units with specific learner needs in mind. For example, Unit 3 began with some textbook readings followed by questions and written work. After this the students were given some advertisements to analyze and also brought in their own examples for use in group discussions. Finally, for a small group project, they designed their own advertisements and then presented their work to the other class members with a rationale for why they had chosen their product and who the target customers would be. Among the products they designed were a genetically engineered cake tree and a time vision camera.

Materials for Theme based CBI

There are textbooks that can be used for theme based CBI classes which usually contain a variety of readings followed by vocabulary and comprehension exercises. These can then be supplemented with additional information from the Internet, newspapers and other sources. However, another approach is to use specially constructed source books which contain collections of authentic materials or simplified versions. These can be about a particular theme such as drug use or care of the elderly, or about more general topics. It's possible to create some really interesting classroom materials as long as the need for comprehensibility is not forgotten.

Readability

The Flesch-Kincaid test is one method of measuring the readability of writing. Difficulty is assessed by analyzing sentence length and the number of syllables per word. Put simply, short sentences containing words with few syllables are considered to be the easiest to read. The Flesch-Kincaid test can also be used to assess the difficulty of texts for EFL students.  For students with scores below TOEFL 500, Flesh - Cinched scores in the range 5.0- 8.0 are appropriate. (By way of comparison this paper has a Flesch-Kincaid rating of 11.1). However, far more detailed research needs to be done in the area of assessing student responses to the readability of adapted materials. For example, the Flesch-Kincaid test assumes that passive constructions are more difficult for students to understand than active ones; however my own preliminary investigations have shown that removing passive verbs and replacing them with active ones does not necessarily make the students feel that the text is any easier to read.

How Can Theme Based CBI Be Assessed?

A theme based CBI course should have both content and language goals.
Student progress can then be assessed when classes are underway. Continuous assessment is effective.  Daily quizzes can be used to check that content information is getting through to the students and that they are remembering important vocabulary.  Longer tests may also be given at mid-term and at the end of the term.
Journals are also a useful diagnostic tool. Students can be given time at the end of each class to write a summary of the content of the lesson or to answer a specific question given by the teacher. Another useful exercise is to allow the students to write freely on any topic; teachers can then read their work and assess their progress indirectly.
Direct oral feedback during the classes can be useful as long as we are mindful of the proficiency level of the students; it's all too easy to forget how difficult it is to speak a foreign language in front of classmates.

Summary

CBI is an effective method of combining language and content learning. Theme based CBI works well in EFL contexts, and I believe its use will increase as teachers continue to design new syllabi in response to student needs and interests. As I said at the beginning, I believe that learner motivation increases when students are learning about something, rather than just studying language. Theme based CBI is particularly appealing in this respect because teachers can use almost any content materials that they feel their students will enjoy. What can be better than seeing our students create something and learn language at the same time?

CBI plans
CBI1
CBI2
CBI3

CBI Teaching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoVuMgcu1U

PPP plan

PPP
An approach often fits into a lesson structure known as PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production). The teacher presents the target language and then gives students the opportunity to practise it through very controlled activities. The final stage of the lesson gives the students the opportunity to practise the target language in freer activities which bring in other language elements.

This model works well as it can be used for most isolated grammatical items. It also allows the teacher to time each stage of the lesson fairly accurately and to anticipate and be prepared for the problems students may encounter. It is less workable at higher levels when students need to compare and contrast several grammatical items at the same time and when their linguistic abilities are far less uniform.

Presentation

In this stage the teacher presents the new language in a meaningful context. I find that building up stories on the board, using realia or flashcards and miming are fun ways to present the language.
For example, when presenting the 2nd conditional, I often draw a picture of myself with thought bubbles of lots of money, a sports car, a big house and a world map.

• I ask my students what I'm thinking about and then introduce the target language.
  "If I had a lot of money, I would buy a sports car and a big house."
• I practise and drill the sentence orally before writing it the board (positive, negative, question and short answer).
• I then focus on form by asking the students questions. E.g." What do we use after 'if'?" and on meaning by asking the students questions to check that they have understood the concept (E.g. "Do I have lots of money?" No." What am I doing?" Imagining.)
• When I am satisfied that my students understand the form and the meaning, I move on to the practice stage of the lesson. During this stage of the lesson it is important to correct phonological and grammatical mistakes.
• Download the students' worksheet HERE.

Practice

There are numerous activities which can be used for this stage including gap fill exercises, substitution drills, sentence transformations, split sentences, picture dictations, class questionnaires, reordering sentences and matching sentences to pictures.

• It is important that the activities are fairly controlled at this stage as students have only just met the new language. Many student's books and workbooks have exercises and activities which can be used at this stage.
• When teaching the 2nd conditional, I would use split sentences as a controlled practice activity. I give students lots of sentence halves and in pairs they try and match the beginnings and ends of the sentences.
  Example: "If I won the lottery," …. "I'd travel around the world."
• I would then do a communicative follow up game like pelmanism or snap using the same sentence halves.

You can download the Students' worksheet HERE.

Production

Again there are numerous activities for this stage and what you choose will depend on the language you are teaching and on the level of your students. However, information gaps, role plays, interviews, simulations, find someone who, spot the differences between two pictures, picture cues, problem solving, personalisation activities and board games are all meaningful activities which give students the opportunity to practise the language more freely.

• When teaching the 2nd conditional, I would try to personalise the lesson at this stage by giving students a list of question prompts to ask others in the class.
  Example:do / if / win the lottery?
• Although the questions are controlled the students are given the opportunity to answer more spontaneously using other language items and thus the activity becomes much less predictable.
• It is important to monitor and make a note of any errors so that you can build in class feedback and error analysis at the end of the lesson.

PPP plan

PPP teaching
PPP1

B-slim plan

B-slim
Bilash’s Success-based Language Instruction Model (B-SLIM): An Overview (DRAFT)
Dr. Olenka Bilash (Olenka.Bilash@ualberta.ca)

We talk so much about self directed learning and have structured policies and proposed practices around the assumption that all learners are equally self-directed. BUT, practitioners know that not all learners are equally self-directed. In fact, teachers also know from experience that some learners need to be taught to be self-directed. By being based on success, B-SLIM incorporates enough scaffolding (structure and support) at each phase for learners who are less self sufficient to succeed while simultaneously providing opportunities and direction for the more self-directed student to push forward. For example, while a less self-directed student might need to follow a template several times before really ‘getting’ the structure of a form such as a brief event review (in order to be able to create one on his/her own as an OUTPUT assignment), a more self-directed learner may only need to hear or see the model once and be able to replicate and creatively alter it!


Plan
B-slim 1
B-slim2
B-slim3

Song
The Calendar Song - Kids + Children Learn English Songs
It's Rainy - Kids + Children Learn English Songs


Video
Video teaching

Song

Story telling

Certificate

Social sevice