WEEK 9

MALL, an easier tool.
rate:5

This time we are focused on the reading for week 10 which is named 20 ideas for using mobile phones in the language classroom.
Something that make me want to read more about the article was the point in which is focused on since it mentioned that is cheaper and more accesible than a computer and easir to access to materials from anywhere. 

Also, these devices support in many benefits from emailing to reading books, but also it is a social tool which facilitate everyday communication and learning. The 20 ideas mentioned in the article were focused on support listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. 

Since students are able to have a cellphone, they are able to use all the tools that the device offers like the camera, internet conection, and all the apps related to learning the target language. So that as teachers is a good idea to support them on what they do not know and use that tool as an advantage for their learning. 

Nevertheless, we have to be careful with the instructions and the level of the students we are teaching because they can got distractions or go to other tools instead of work on what you assign if you are not very strict with your assigment to develop in classes

week 8

Authentic materials for teaching ESL

rate 5

This week was an interesting topic to read but also to keep in mind in our future classes. As future teachers we have to keep in our mind and in our hands many ideas to do in the momment of develop a class. This reading caught my attention because I realized that we definitely have to look for authentic materials for teachin ESL, listening, visual and printed skills can be more interactive and interesting because students will be able to listen native pronunciation and learn native vocabulary or abreviations that normally is no taught in a traditional ESL materials. What make me read more about the article was the 4 creative ways for teaching ESL that are presented in the article. 

1.Weather Report: There Is a Blizzard on the Way!2. 

2.Menus: Order Your Favorite Dish

3.Job Opening: 1-2-3 I Need a Job! 

4.The Reporter: Fact or Fiction

These activities are very creative and based on something important, which is not just teaching the topic, it it also a way to help them to improve their learning, to open their mind, to make them avoid shyness and become better students and successful people. for that reason is very important that teachers choose carefully the activities they will apply. They have to observe the necessity of each student and the level they are. As the article says authentic materials are a bridge to fill the gap of each learner and the wide quantity of activities we can put in practice are going to be a very useful tool for making learners develop themselves comfortably in real life and to put in practice what they learn as much as necessary.

week 7

Vocabulary acquisition and reading comprenhension plus online dictionaries.

Rate:4

This time the readings are focused on teaching vocabulary and reading by using CALL and the usefulness of online dictionaries or learner dictionaries which are very used by foreign learners nowadays. It is very important to mentioned that vocabulary and reading are closely and reciprocally related one each other, what means that people who are disciplinated readers or like to read are people with a more wide vocabulary acquired. In the actuallity, multimedia which is a computter-based system and an interactive tool, offers a lot of contents that teachers can applyto in all the lessons. This way to teach has had good results to make students enhance the acquisition and comprenhesion of the foreign language. Talking about the learner dictionaries I considered them totally complete because they show a precise explanation of the meaning of the word that we are searching but also it shows sentences and the different meanings that it can has according to the parts of speech. Something I have learned from this week readings are the five features about Online English-English learner dictionaries (1.Corpus-based dictionaries, 2.Word frequency,  3.Collocations,  4.Authentic examples,  5.Topical vocabulary)  and is very interesting because each of them has been designed to enhable all the learning that students need to know deppending of the course they are taking, also what caught my attention is the recomendations for teachers to go to the correct option in the moment of recomend it to the students.

WEEK 6
rate:4

Tools for teaching EFL and ESL 

Reading this week's articles I have learned that actual students are more accesible to acquire and improve their new language acquisition with more wide strategies that teachers can introduce in their knowledge. This time the articles are focused on reading and writing lessons. Realia, URL, HTML, e-mail lessons, websites and others are the more used tools nowadays for teachers in the momment of develop a class or give a task and it has become in successful ways to teach in many cases. Unfortunately, always are presented some disadvantages for some students in the moment of learning by CALL because sometimes can be dificult for some to learn by using technology or sometimes they can feel scared of doing something wrong, but in that case it is an obligation for teachers to make them feel comfortable and help them as much as necessary. That with the objective of become them  independent and confident in the area they were developing. Something I disliked about the article was to notice about the traditional instructions when they used the coursebook which consisted on do the same exercise during the whole class, I consider that tool was bored.  Something I want to remember from this article is that we have to take into account the level of students we have in the moment of teach them with CALL tools, also I like the links presented there for teaching EFL and the activities mentioned for make them improve their writing. Moreover, it is important for us to be totally prepared with our lessons and on the other hand, to keep extra materials or activities in case we lose internet access or any technologic problem arises.