Saturday, April 30, 2011

Week 4: Lesson Plan and Discussion: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary Skills

Hello everybody,

I would  like to start with a quote:

Firstly, I think that read about lesson plans from the University of Tennessee have been a support to increase the English knowledge of our students and us too.  Reading   the template was at the beginning a little exhausted but when I was developing it was useful and attractive.
My classmates shared excellent ideas where they have included different topics for being practiced with the use of technology such that learn about new vocabulary, grammar, share ideas, create debates.

In reference to  Discussion: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary Skills

The present paper "Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction", by Jarek Krajka tries to explore the issue of the use of the Internet as a teaching aid, or as a teaching medium, through which students are taught how to write different writing genres.

 I did an analysis  the most basic writing genres, such as a letter to a friend, a formal letter, a biography, a description of a person, a for-and-against essay, a notice and an advertisement, a description of a festival/ceremony, a description of a book/film/play, a newspaper report, an opinion essay and a description of a place and I will attempt to demonstrate how, with the help of selected websites or other on-line techniques, writing instruction can be made more interesting, appealing, motivating and authentic.

Disadvantage : higher levels of proficiency or Advanced , but they are very important and useful to develop the writing skill.

Conclusion
I totally agree with the author have said, the Web should not be used all the time, or the Web materials only, but a teacher should enrich lessons with the Net component when it is really profitable for students and could help them in their learning. However, it could be said that writing instruction should be enriched with the Internet component, in order to provide students with choice, variety, authenticity, and regency and to give them a real purpose for writing.

ABCD Objective:
Advanced Writing students (Audience), after reading "Abortion: All sides of the issue in Canada" online and finding out information on Abortion (Condition), will share their opinions on abortion in a class discussion, write an argumentative essay and make comments on their peers' work (Behavior) in one post on their own blog and two comments (Degree).

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