My First Cartoon (What A Wonderful Class)

My favorite Writers

The corpus tools and SWIFTKEY KEYBOARD APP

What insights into your own language use and development did you gain by analyzing your own writing with the corpus tools? 

  I have corrected my wrong collocations. I adjust my texts readability according to levels that the readers participate. They are useful for academic writings to find out appropriate academic words.

Here are some corpus tools:
http://www.wordandphrase.info
http://www.er-central.com/ogte/
http://www.just-the-word.com/
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
http://www.snappywords.com
http://lexipedia.com/english/

SWIFTKEY KEYBOARD APP

These kind of applications are now used in smart phones as default apps. When you get used to them, you may find yourself as if you had never written the words letter by letter. Its another advantage is its auto-correction function which makes writings in social media or informal contexts more intelligible.

Passion of researhers to find out the vocab size -- come on guys be realistic!

I disliked the vocabulary tests. Each one of them has different perspectives to caltulate our vocab size; however, they are no more than assumptions. Sometimes researchers should look for what is possible and what is not. All the tests I took are inconsistent with each other.

Smmry of DDL

TBL (task-based learning) Task-based language learning is an approach which was developed in the 1980s by the Indian language teaching specialist N.S. Prabhu. TBL is based on the idea that the acquisition of language and linguistic competence as well as language and language learning awareness can best be realized through tasks which encourage the learner not to focus explicitly on the structure and the rules of the new language. AIM OF DATA DRIVEN LEARNING The principal aim of all teaching activities must be the creation of a learning environment in which learners are asked to carry out authentic tasks. Providing the appropriate data, organized into suitable units of information and supported by relevant processes must be the foremost task of educational design of any kind of language learning and teaching resource in order to contribute to the success of any learning situation. The traditional transmission model of learning must be replaced by models which emphasis information processing and knowledge construction as acts of learning most suited to the acquisition of the kind of skills needed for the knowledge society. In addition to the undeniable need to achieve instructional goals, the development of cognitive and strategic abilities suitable for the knowledge society is defined as one of the principle aims of a learning process based on knowledge construction and discovery learning.

Here is useful vocabulary links to learn how to teach.




http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/wff/
You can define appropriate level for certain vocab items.

http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/test

http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=4587460

Test your vocabulary. 

http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/faq#quest3
What is the scala?

Assure Model

My teachers were generally not very efficient in using the instructional technology and media. I can say this on the grounds that the only technological equipments we used were television, cd player and projector but its use was very limited. When I compare the instructional media that is used nowadays, I find our use of instructional media is very very sufficient. For example, we could use our smart phones or simply computers to integrate instruction and technology in a more effective way. I believe computer helps a lot for especially pronunciation. Hearing native pronunciation from online dictionaries, may help students to produce native-like pronunciation. These weren't included in our classes. If they were included, I believe our English lessons would be more effective. Other than fourth step, which is utilizing technology, our teachers were aware of the steps of the Assure model. They analyzed the students profile , stated objectives, selected materials,require learner's response and evaluate well, which in turn contributed to the effectiveness of the lessons.