Don't have much to say...maybe factors? (Week7)

       

       In this week, Ms. Usa wants us to go deeper into the factors that's affecting the English teaching in the easier understanding way. Ms. Usa divided the factors in to students' age, learner difference, motivation, and teacher. I felt like I had already learned about these factors in that time because I had already learned a little about it in  Classroom Management subject. In Classroom Management subject, Ms. Jariya turned on a video name, "Kru Somporn Kon Son Ring" or Mr. Somporn the monkey trainer, then let us try to learn about the factors which Mr. Somporn mentioned in the video. The factors, which are mentioned by Mr. Somporn, are exactly same with the ones that Ms. Usa is introducing. Therefore, we linked the video from Classroom Management subject as the examples when Ms. Usa want us to discuss and present in front of the class. I know that I don't have much to tell about this week. It doesn't like I don't know what to say, but mostly of things i say in class this week are my own ideas. So, I don't want to put it in my learning reflection or it will turn to be the brain washing article instead. So, Good luck everyone. 

Experiences Sharing and Talking about Factors (Week6)

     

Picture of Satit (The man in the middle with cap and mask)

Picture of Maturin (The woman with glasses behind the sitting white shirt woman )

       This time, Ms. Usa began the class with the experiences sharing by two of my friends who just come back form exchanging students to training in teaching scholarship from Philippines and Indonesia. They are Maturin, who was training teaching in Philippines and Satit, who was training teaching in Indonesia. Actually, I had been in Philippines for one month from the other scholarship before, so I didn't interest in Maturin experiences sharing as much as it should be. But I have learned many strange things form Satit's training teaching experiences in Indonesia such as Indonesian teachers and students will come to the class late about 15 - 30 minutes. Most of things in Satit's training teaching experiences is really ridiculous and useful in the same time for me. After that Ms. Usa gave us the article about classroom learning contexts and teachers' descriptions. There are samples from three countries; Malaysia, Mozambique, and China. After we finished reading the article, we listed the main topics and discussed in group to be ready to present if Ms. Usa wants us to present out work in front of the class again. But this time, Ms. Usa  wants us to state the techniques that were used by the teachers from Malaysia, Mozambique, and China instead according to the specific topics such as the use of time, use of space, and etc. That makes me a little bit upset because I can't do the work in my way. However, our group work and presentation go well. No problem occurs in our work and presentation. Actually, it's easier to get the job done with the giving topics because we know exactly what are we going to look for and put it in the form. At the end of the class Ms. Usa assign us to do the brainstorming about the factors affecting the English teaching that I mentioned about last week, so it's quite easy for me to talk about it and give some examples to support my ideas.

Teaching English in Asian Context...? (Week5)

 

      Alright, I wanna talk about the thing I mentioned last time. About the "How to make the students do not bored in classroom" technique. I see that it doesn't work only for me. To tell you the truth, I was trying to fix this problem before by using many methods such as a shocking pen or hitting myself, but they didn't work anyway. I found that I have to do something I interested in to keep me awake. Well...that's how one of my problem goes. Furthermore,  it's not about my learning reflection in seminar course too. Now, let me inform you about my learning reflection in this week. In this week, Ms. Usa gave us the article name, The roles of English Language Education in Asian context by Bok-Myung to discuss in class.I read the article silently at first in my group before we started discussing things that stated in the article. My group used a really short time to discuss about the matter in the article because the things that suggested in the article is mostly as same as the different between ESL context and EFL context. The article itself tried to inform is about the general information and the environments of the teaching English in Asian context which is exactly the same. So, why is the teaching English  in Asian context and the teaching English  in EFL context the same? It's because mostly countries in Asia teaches English in EFL context. However, there are some parts in this article which show some interesting things such as the factors that affect the English teaching and many samples form many countries. It makes me think that Bok - Myung is one of the great man because Bok-Myung  gathered a lot of information from many countries which is needed to use a lot of time and money. It makes me think that why he has to waste those things for an article. At last, I presented the things I find interesting to my friends in front of class and it actually takes time more than Ms. Usa gave for each group's presentation. I'm not sure that my friends are satisfying or annoying with my presentation  because I always presents my work overtime. I do that because I want to tell them what I want them to know and I'm sure that it'll be useful for them in the future.