Hola to all! This is my second class of resources in the second week in UM! Since we have an hour more left for this class, i guess it's time for me to reflect upon what we have been doing for the last two hours.
Once again, the computer and the internet has been fully utilised by all the moment we sat down infront of the computer. We were required to read up on an article given out by our lecturer, Pn Foziah entitled 'Working with Young Language Learners' by Judy Herr (i think). We were assigned to read up and come up with a power point presentation later on in the class.
The subtopic our group covered was 'the instinct for interaction and talk'. It gave us much insight that children's innate nature to talk actually work as an advantage for us as teachers in the primary language classroom. Our only mission is to ensure that what the children 'talk' about is relevant and appropriate according to the language they are acquiring. Let me qoute the sentence from the paragraph that speaks to my heart: '... make sure that the desire to talk is working for learning and not against learning'.
Then, Pn Foziah had some housekeeping task for us, which is to fill up a module oreintation. Filling up that form (it was about SIX pages, if i'm not mistaken!) made me realised that there are so many things regarding technology resources that i have yet to learn, let alone master. Thus, it serves as a reminder for me to keep up to date regarding these issues and fields that would be very useful for my future career as a teacher.
Yet again, this class has proven to me that besides the usual teaching materials used in the language classroom (i.e. text book, word cards, picture cards etc.) there are a vast variety of resources to be discovered through this course. Signing out for now, ciao!
p/s: just got our new book! i loooove the smell of new books! (weird, i know, but that's me! =P)
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