วันอาทิตย์ที่ 16 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2560

Seminar 11

Tuesday 11th April, 2017 

                     Learning experience for "Seminar in English Language Teaching" 



Today in the classroom, teacher gave the students divided groups by each group have 5-6 person. After that, teacher told the students read a article "Current Trends and Issues in English Language Education in Asia" and gave the students helped to discuss about this article include showed the opinion for this text and teacher told the students in each group that everyone in group helped to summarize about this text and then each group come up in front of the class and present. When each group presented to finish teacher summarized about information in this text again. Teacher summarized 9 items.
1. Changes in perspective on ELT&learning.
2. Changes in goals of ELT&learning.
3. Changes in teaching approaches.
4. Changes in teaching content, curriculum design and assessment.
5. Expanding the dimension of communicative competence.
6. Changes in views of an effective English educator.
7. Early start in learning English.
8. Rapid development and integration of IT in ELT.
9. Changing roles&increasing responsibilities of teachers.
After that, teacher told about 21st Century Themes (Global awareness, Environmental literacy, Health literacy and Financial, economic, business). And teacher explained about :
Skills - Learning&Innovation skills
         - Life&Career
1. Learning and Innovation skills
4Cs      - Creativity&innovation
            - Critical thinking&problem solving
            - Communication
            - Collaboration
2. Information, Media and Technology skills
            - Information literacy
            - Media literacy
            - ICT literacy
3. Life and career skills
            - Flexibility and adaptability
            - Social and cross-cultural skills
            - Leadership and responsibility
            - Initiative and self-direction
            - Productivity and accountability
And then, teacher told about :
1. More and more research and discussion are focused on the issues of "Word Englishes", English as a Lingua franca (ELF).
2. Students should know about global issues or care about social problems.
3. Enlightened eclecticism (Brown, 1994) or principled eclecticism (Larsen - Freeman, 2000).
4. - ELT classroom is interdisciplinary e.g. CBLT, CITC
    - English is not viewed as an end in itself but as a means to learn subject area knowledge.
5. The implication here is that when teaching ICC, teachers need to teach both local and international culures.
6. The Internet, Youtube, Web 2.0, e-books, and various websites have changed the way teachers.
7. With the new trends happening, the role of today's teachers is also evolving and their responsibilities have also been increasing.

In addition, I can bring the knowledge that I get in this course come to use in learning and teaching English in the future. This course make me to practice many skills that important in daily life effectively. I love this course and I enjoy to learn in this subject.
 


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