Here comes the CALL!!! (Week10)

       
       Today, my friends and I learned about CALL in Seminar in English class. CALL or Computer Assisted Language Learning is a system or learning language which is using internet in supporting in learning process. We learned about CALL through the article "Computer Assisted Language Learning: an Introduction by Mark Warshauer." This article contains a lot of information about the history of CALL which is suggested that human uses computer to serve as a tool of studying language for a long time. Then the question is "Why don't we manage to push it more further by making it becomes something more than a plain computer that shows texts and structure?" With the idea of making the computer becoming more advance and suitable for learning language, they manage to upgrade and put in more function to the computer to make it able to serve for all language skills such as grammar, listening, pronunciation, speaking, reading, writing, and vocabulary. And when they finished putting those things such as speaker, microphone, software, and etc. to upgrade the computer, we called the results of upgrading computer that is ready to serve language teaching in all purpose. "CALL" or "Computer Assisted Language Learning" as I informed you before. With the CALL, the idea of "CMC" or "Computer Mediated Communication" is become more clarify. It likes CALL is one of the producation of CMC. For me, I don't really care about the production of, what source of it, or how it becomes something like that. I think as long as it keeps the world going better and better is okay.

Factors Once More!!! (Week 9)

       
       Even we studied something like the standard factors that affect the teaching English with Ms. Usa last week, but we still need to learn  about the real affecting teaching English factors. So, Ms. Usa gave us the article name "Factors Affecting English Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by Hong Thi Nguyen , Wendy Warren, and Heather  Fehring" to use to study as a reference today. It's about the research that aims for exploring the factors that affects the efficiency of non-major English teaching and learning in Vietnamese higher education. The research takes place at HUTECH or Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The research findings show us about the factors that affect the teaching English. Most of the factors are mostly same as the standard ones; students' age, learner difference, motivation, and teacher, but the researchers had discriminate the factors into good factors and bad factors. For example, there are motivate factors, so there must be demotivate factors too. Once we got and finished reading the article, we listed the good and bad factors then presented what we found in front of the class. This presentation makes me feel fun too. Because I have chances to explain how I think about my county education to my teacher and my friends in the same time.

Let's Finish the Factors!!! (Week8)

        Well...this is 7 March 2017 learning reflection because we have other seminar that is held by the university on 21 February 2017. About 7 March 2017 learning reflection, Ms. Usa took control of the class in whole time. We still studied about the factors, but we learned about what educators and teachers actually think about factors that affecting English teaching this time. That's why Ms. Usa had to take control of the class this time. Not only explaining about the factors that affect the English teaching, Ms. Usa also summarizes the previous lessons that we had learned already such as ESL context, EFL context, CLT approach, and etc. At the end of the class, Ms. Usa told us to think about the English learning problems in Thailand, then discuss and presented in front of the class. About the English learning problems in Thailand, the problems are mostly same as the English learning in EFL context, but the main problem in Thailand is the lack of ability to communicate in English language. Still my "Sleeping" problem causes me trouble in this week too. When Ms. Usa began to summarize the lessons through presentation and slides, I suddenly fell as sleep. I never consider this problem as a trouble before. Until, Ms. Usa said that she lost her confident in teaching because I fell asleep during her speech. This look bad!, sounds Bad!, IS Bad!