Week 4

As usual this week was  busy.

• I have read two articles. The first one is called "Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction" by Jarek Krajka. Author suggested 3 ways of using Internet to help to teach writing - they are web pages, e-mail connection and creating class websites.  
  The second article was "Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL" by Larry J. Mikulecky. The information about vocabulary mastery as indicator of reading level (independent, instructional or frustrational)seems to be helpful for me and also a method of "five fingers". I liked these assignment ideas and that can foster extensive reading: to ask students to keep a list of what they have read, brief summaries of stories or chapters, and new vocabulary learned; to ask students create their own simple stories in English with illustrations. To practice in it I tried to adapt these activities into my lessons and wrote example of objectives.Also I looked at my colleagues ideas - they were great, especially Luis F. Ruiz, Angels Rodrigues, Jurgita Bertuliene and Belal Elbadry. 
• New thing for me was to create and publish documents through Google.doc   and of course to plan lesson taking into consideration usage of technology https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Idlt5vTBgcpKRkYHE1abgprat26qSQybLU4GKE8pDA/edit?usp=sharing.
  I liked Lesson Plan of Maria Pitsaki - she used video and it enhanced didactic effect of the lesson. It's so obviously!
• This week we were asked to think about issues of class I have chosen for my project. The main problem here - different levels of English, so I should think which way of using technology can help me to answer different needs of all students and to avoid ...   (you see I'm trying the options of blog -how to make a list and insert images)
  
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