Material Development : Digital Language Learning Material

  Examples of Digital Language Learning Materials
     
  http://knowble.eu/ 
   eslcafe.com
   bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
   a4esl.org
   tv411.org
   elt.oup.com/learning_resources

Criteria for evaluating digital learning material

Errors

Less serious errors that disturb the work of the user  serious errors that, example, endanger the preservability of the users’ outputs

Efficiency

refer to the experience of the users while operating the application or material after they manage to master using it in term of how well the experience goes.

Learnability

 the time taken for the user to use the system before they carry on to learn essential skills necessary to perform the tasks.

Memorability

The ability of an occasional user who has previously used the system to remember its operational principles. 

Criteria of pedagogical usability

    

     Feedback

           Student should be provided with encouraging and immediate feedback by the learning material will increases learning motivation and helps students to know their strength and weakness

Learning progress cannot be happened without immediate correction

Motivation

          Affects learning and makes people behave the way they do

          Motivation is the way to do things by reference to instincts, desires and reinforcement; support the direction on one’s general behavior. Motivation affects alertness and vigor

     Goal orientation

          When the goals of teacher, students and learning materials are closely aligned, the best results can be obtained. Goals should be clear cut and able to motivate the students to achieve the goals. When the students themselves do not set their goals, their meaningfulness should be justified from the point of view of motivation. Students should pursue their own interests in relation with learning goals

Learner control

           Learner’s memory should be pushed to the limit when learning a new topic. Materials should be broken down to be learned into small meaningful units

     Applicability

          The approach taken in learning material should correspond to the skills that the learner will later need in everyday and working life.The learners should be able to transfer the skills or knowledge to other contexts. Learning something new can be accomplished effectively by relating it to practical tasks. Learning materials should be at appropriate level from the point of view of learner’s learning process

     Added value

          To increase creativity in learners when using digital language learning material. Other kind of added value: adaptability to individual needs, number of flexible options, learning is controlled and initiated by learners, interesting contents, development of communication, active participation of students.

Rough Outline of Our Own DLLM
          
          The teacher will posts several pictures. Each picture will have its own captions that describe the picture. Using the picture the students need to make a diary entry. The students need to use their own imagination in order to come out with a suitable story line that go well with the picture. the students can post their diary entry in their blog so their peers can read it. this activity encourage students to be creative and in the same time peer evaluation can be carry out under teacher's supervision.
     
            Examples of picture :
                  

         

          

SLA theories and principles :

Theories :

• Behaviourist
• Innatist
• Interactionist

Principles :

• Materials should achieve impact
• Materials should help learners to feel at ease
• Materials should help learners to develop confidence
• What is being taught should be perceived by learners as relevant and useful
• Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment
• Learners must be ready to acquire the points being taught
• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use
• The learners’ attention should be drawn to linguistic features of the input.
• Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes.
• Materials should take into account that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed
• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes
• Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction.
• Materials should not rely too much on controlled practice
• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome and feedback
• Materials should help the learner to develop cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Materials should reflect the reality of language use.
• Materials should help learners to learn in ways similar to the circumstances in which they will have to use the language.
• Materials should help to create readiness to learn.

Week 2 : Tutorial

As future language teachers, developing language learning materials will become as aspect of your teaching career. Design a diagram on the aspects influencing materials development using the provided key words.  You can use either all or some of the key words. Present and justify the completed diagram using informed literature.

There are many aspects that will affect material development whether it’s directly or indirectly. Different country will come out with their own educational aim and objective but most of them show similar resemblance to one another in term of nurturing the intellectuality in their country. As teachers, we have to take all of the related aspects into consideration. The country’s vision will affects the curriculum goal and objectives directly. Since the government is in charges of shaping one unified curriculum goal and objectives to be used by every school all over the nation, all of us have one aim to be accomplished.

On the other hand, every school also put certain benchmark to be achieved. With this come the school administration aims and objectives. The school also wishes to incorporate their own goal within the country’s curriculum aim.

In material development, Principles of Second Language Acquisition, principle of teaching and learning and Teacher’s belief and rational are important elements. The right formula which consist of the combination of  all three is necessary in order to come out with the most eligible type of material.

Teachers also have to apply the principle of teaching and learning that relevant to the objective of the entire teaching and learning process. But the principle used depends whether it is suitable to the current situation. Every aspect of the learners surrounding has to be taken into consideration before applying certain principle. So here, Teacher’s belief and rational have to be taken into consideration since not all of the principles are applicable at any situation. Principles of Second Language Acquisition also have to be deliberated since the language is taught as a second language

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Material development should also be able to assist the students when it comes to language quiz, test or assessment. The material used during teaching and learning process should be able to prepare the students to be tested. It also should be able to make sure that students can learn more effectively and in the same time draw their attention in believing that learning process can also be interesting and fun.

Parent’s goals can also be a driven force or motivation for the students to perform better. Parents who really gone into the trouble of making sure their children can perform better in school with definitely expect an excellent result. Nevertheless, it all comes down to the learners themselves. Whether they want to make used all the efforts that being put on them or let it being wasted just like that. What the learning material can do is provide an alternative for learners to absorb the knowledge and try to gain something from it. In the end, it’s how the learners attitude towards it that’s matters.

Family!

Songs

Movies

1.) "Oh, How the Years Go By" by Vanessa   Williams 2.) "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts 3.) "Song for Dad" by Keith Urban 4.) "A Song for Momma" by Boyz II Men 5.) "Remember When" by Alan Jackson 6.) "Grow Old Along With Me" by Mary Chapin Carpenter 7.) "Find Your Wings" by Mark Harris 8.) "One More Day" by Diamond Rio 9.) "Love Will Keep Us Alive" by the Eagles 10.) "The Dance" by Garth Brooks 11.) "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" by Van Morrison 12.) "My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw 13.) "I'll Still Be Loving You" by Restless Heart 14.) "In My Daughter's Eyes" by Martina McBride 15.) "I Hope You Dance" by LeeAnn Womack 16.) "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle 17.) "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross 18.) "In the Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics 19.) "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong 20.) "I Will Be Here" - Steven Curtis Chapman 21.) "We Are Family" - Sister Sledge 22.) "Lean on Me" - The Temptations 23.) "Turn, Turn, Turn" - The Byrds 24.) "You're Gonna Miss This" - Trace Adkins 25.) "Blessed" - Martina McBride 26.) "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" - Barbra Streisand 27.) "Lullabye" - Billy Joel 28.) "Don't Forget to Remember Me" - Carrie Underwood 29.) "I'll Always Be Right There" - Bryan Adams 30.) "My Girl" - The Temptations

1.      Anastasia 2.      The lion king 3.      Finding Nemo 4.      Lilo And Stitch 5.      Home Alone 6.      The Incredibles 7.      Harry Potter 8.      Madagascar 9.      Ice Age 10.

Assessing Students

This time we were ask to mark the students essay in group. The writer's sentence structure is not very good but we still can understand the message or the story that the student was trying to deliver. This students have problem with expressing his/her thought in a suitable terms or in other words he/she has problem with vocabulary. So we have decided to give the students 10/20.Other than that, the student also have punctuation problems,grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.

Integrating Technology in Teaching Writing

Write an article on the topic  ‘Integrating Technology in Teaching Writing ‘. It can be anything related to the slides, own opinion ,how you would use it in the future.

Technology has seeped to almost every aspect of our life. It is very difficult to live without technology these days especially the young generation. Technology  is now part of our life and make our life easier. The applications of technology are used in various field these days. One of it is education. Nowadays, more and more teachers choose to integrate technology in their classroom activities. Learning activity such as writing can get more stimulating to students by involving  technology to it.

I will definitely going to integrate technology in my teaching method. It is because technology has the power to turn a boring lesson into something very enjoyable for the students. It is very important to capture the students focus and attention during teaching and learning process.

Through the integration of technology in teaching writing, the usual and typical teaching and learning process will never be the same again. Through this method the classroom atmosphere will become so much more interesting and exciting not only for the students but also for the teachers.

Websites such as Busy Teacher and BBC School enable teachers to get access to unlimited resources for teaching. These types of websites provide variety of worksheets, lesson plan and activities. Not only it is convenient for the teachers to obtain materials for their lesson but it also lift the burden from the teachers to come out with their own lesson plan and materials. Through  such websites,

 

In addition the existence of  tools such as Prezi, Easy Test Maker and Gloyster enable teachers to create their own material. Hence, if they could not found anything that related to his/her lesson plan, the teachers can always design their own material. For tools such as Prezi, presentation will become a lot more eye catching because of its creative layout.

Moreover, the idea of creating E-Portfolio as a collection of work that has been done is another great example of how useful technology can be if It is widely used in this field. E-Portfolio is not only easy to access but also very convenient to organize.

Nevertheless, there are issues and challenges in implementing the use of technology in teaching writing. For instance, in rural area it will be very tricky to use technology because of the limited access of internet. Without internet, teachers won’t be able to access the available teaching and resources all over the world. Besides, lack of time will also get in the way since teachers are also burden with other activity.

Even though we will be facing problem in integrating technology in teaching writing, but there’s no doubt that it really can bring benefits to teachers and learners. Maybe in the near future  we can see technology being fully use in teaching writing and education in general.

Mini Test

Question 1

construct two instruction using the picture given.

• Instruction 1

Your friend is staying at Kinabalu Daya Hotel. The two of you are plan to meet at Wisma Merdeka . This is the first time your friend arrived at Sabah . So, send her an email to guide your friend to reach Wisma Merdeka from the hotel. Your  message must include:

         - Direction from Kinabalu Daya Hotel to Wisma Merdeka

         - The correct use of prepositions (such as, beside, across, between, from and at)

• Instruction 2

Dear Ana,

I'm at Hyatt Hotel.  Where can I get a good view of Kota Kinabalu ? I heard Signal hill Observatory is perfect to see a complete view of the city. Can you kindly text me how to get there?

Read the text message above and construct a message to reply to your friend’s request.

Your reply must consist of the correct direction to reach Signal hill Observatory.

Question 2.

You are teaching the theme ‘Environments’ to a form three with intermediate level of proficiency. Describe one activity on how to integrate the following thinkings skills into your lesson.
A)     Analysis
B)     Application

 Analysis is comparing and contrasting information. While, application is using the knowledge in a variety of ways.The students are required to produce an essay on the benefits of recycling and the implication if recycling stop being practicing in the future. Students will compare and contrast the situation when recycling is being practice and when nobody willing to recycle anymore. The students will definitely going to use their knowledge on recycling.