Week 4: Reflection about DISCUSSION: Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills, PROJECT STEP: Describe a Class Issue, TASK: Technology Enhanced Lesson Plan.

1. DISCUSSION: Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills : Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL. I think it's very good for those children's and young adult literature because nowadays internet is the only way to find the lessons of learning in L2. Reading is very good start for them but young learners, they don't really like to read a lot at the same time. They sometimes need to have fun and relax from their study. On the other hand, some websites has designed very attractively. It did catch their attention to learn with new materials, fun, colorful, and practice with animation pictures.

ABCD Objectives wanted student to know how to read, tell, and learn new vocabulary in their lessons. I do agree with these methods.These assignments might be spread over several weeks.

- Ask students with access to younger relatives to read and teach the English stories to their younger relatives.

- Ask future teachers of English to read simple stories and then design lessons for younger students.

- Ask students to keep a list of what they have read, brief summaries of stories or chapters, and new vocabulary learned.

- Have students do presentations on stories to "sell" them to other students.

- Have students create their own simple stories in English, possibly with illustrations.

I'm going to use these ideas to teach my students.

2.  PROJECT STEP: Describe a Class Issue: Previously, I used to teach one English class at BELTEI International Institute for 5 years. The class that I'm going to talk about is in level 4. They're young and adult learners form different places in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Moreover, they worked so hard to study English with me. They involved all activities that I provided to them.

The problems that they faced were lack of using technology, internet, computer and LCD projector. Because some of them has those material but they didn't. On the other hand, they did enjoy, excited, and happy in learning through technology.

Hopefully Cambodia's school would provide those useful materials and documents that related to technology in the near future.

Best,

Davith Vann (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

Week 3: Reflection about Delicious, Aural/Oral Skilled Building and Final Project.

1. Delicious: This week 3 I have leaned how to create the Delicious.com. It's very brand new for me. I could share many different websites to people, in order to learn more effectively. Students could search, discover and use technology their study at the same time. Moreover, it would connect to compute or phone everywhere as long as you have internet access. After I have created this website already, I knew it's very easy to use. I could edit, rename, delete and other more options.

2. Aural/Oral Skilled Building : This week 3 is one of my favorite course. I love speaking, listening and pronunciation very much. Cambodian students are very poor in those three above.

Let's me share my personal experiences.

When I was a secondary school student, I did not speak much in the classroom. I would sit quietly and only speak if I was asked a question directly by my teacher. Then I would feel very nervous about whether my response was right or wrong. I did not feel brave and it was not easy for me to talk in English in front of my classmates, especially as they always laughed at me when I spoke, which made me feel very embarrassed. Consequently, I found it difficult to express my ideas or think clearly when I was asked a question. Also, because I wasn't given enough opportunities to speak in class, I never felt that I knew how to speak appropriately to my teacher.

It was not only me who felt this way, but all the students who studied with me at that time. Teachers did not allow us opportunities to speak or to share our knowledge or ideas in class. It seemed that they thought their spoken English was a perfect model and it was the duty of students to listen to them, even though their English probably was not perfect. I think this is not a good teaching/learning situation, because it does not give students the opportunities they need to practice their spoken English, let alone become confident speakers. We may typify this classroom situation as being teacher-centered. There is, however, another type of classroom. This is called learner-centered.

Hopefully these four links would help them to improve speaking, listening and pronunciation skills.

      1.http://www.talkenglish.com/Speaking/listbasics.aspx

      2. https://www.dailystep.com/en

      3. http://www.wikihow.com/Develop-Fluency-in-English

      4. http://pronuncian.com/Default.aspx

 3. Final Project: Author : Aleyda Linares, National Pedagogical University, Honduras

I think she's got a tough time to teach her students because there so many hard situation from her students. They came from the rural area and away from their family. They're Spanish, they would face a lot of problems in learning English. However, she knew the students' ability and situation. She set the clear course goals, understood why the students need, and adding the technology sources. It would help them to study or search next time. One more thing, she's good at motivation to her students. She found so many methods to teach them very effectively. She shown them how to us gmail account, doing assignment on blog, posts and comments. Finally, she gave feedback to every students very well. Hopefully I would take those methods to apply for my students in the near future.

Respectfully yours,

Davith Vann, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Week 2: Reflection about ABCD Objective

I think ABCD Objective is very important for every levels of learners. Because it helps them to reach their direction and goal in any kind of activities task. These are the wonderful techniques that useful for teachers and students at the same. Moreover, it shown the different activities in learning process. It could help students to use their critical thinking very well to prepare their tasks, assignments, homework or other works in classroom or school. Finally, I will keep using the ABCD Objective method to my students and even myself in learning process.

Best,
Davith Vann, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Week 1: Refecltion about Creating and Teaching Blog

Hi Courtney and classmates,

I do agree with all Rubric for Discussion.

At the first time, I have found it very difficult to me because I had never met that kind of blog class at all before. Later on, I have seen many people successes to create that accounts, comments and share their thinking. I realized that I could make it as well. I promised myself never gave up in what I'm doing now. Those berries won't stop me. I must finish it. Finally, I got my own blog. That's interesting!

Best,

Davith Vann, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Week 1: Introduction

I’m Davith Vann, I’m single and from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (one country of ASEAN community).

Previously, I have graduated of Bachelor in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at BELTEI International University. (www.beltei.edu.kh) GPA: 2.90

Presenting, I'm a senior student of Bachelor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Pannasastra University of Cambodia. (www.puc.edu.kh) GPA: 3.40

Before, I used to work an an ESL Teacher at Beltei International Institute for 5 years. Currently, I am an English Teaching Assistant at Pannasastra University of Cambodia for 2 years. My dream is to get a full tuition fee of Master of Education abroad. On the other hand, I just have got a small scholarship in Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web at The University of Oregon.