Teaching Listening

Website for Teaching Listening

Welcome back to my English blog. This time we are going to discuss another skill of language. Do you still remember skills in language are four including listening? Hopefully you do. Well, there are some believes that say the most difficult skill of language is listening. Hmm.. do you believe it? Probably some of you believe and not. But actually listening is a kind of receptive skill which we often find the most both in real situation and in classroom.

The most important thing you should know is that listening is a process, so for all teachers do not get lost your way in teaching listening. This means that as you teach listening please consider and focus on a process not to a product. In short, practice is the real logical way that teacher should apply for students. Then what are the strategies?

The following articles discuss theories about the development of listening skills, tips on how to
deliver listening activities and some practical tips on listening activities that can be performed by teachers and students while learning a language.

1. Teaching listening for Young Learners

2. Teaching Listening to College Students

Well, now we go to main topics. As teacher, we should prepare the materials as effective as possible. Here are some link you may need to support your teaching listening.

 a. Teaching with songs

 b. Teaching with games

Then, for some websites of teaching listening you may visit these following websites:

 a. BBC Learning English

 b. Randall's ESL Cyber Lisening

Video Conferencing

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This time i am going to show you my video to practice speaking skill. This video shows us how to practice our speaking through Skype. i made this video with my group in CALL class.

Teaching Writng

HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY HELP TEACHING WRITING

Halloo everybody…!!!

In the previous discussion, we talked about how we teach reading. Now, it’s time for teaching writing. Writing is one of the skills that language learners need to learn besides the other three skills. Writing is productive skills in language. So writing is a process. It needs a usual activity to always practice writing. Teachers have already understood, of course, about that. But the question for teachers that often comes up is how to teach writing skills effectively? 

To start and open the understanding, let’s go further to how teachers should teach writing effectively. To build it, let us read this article

Well, after we already known the strategies for teaching writing both in classroom and outside class, it’s time for us to know what things may help us to teach. Here are some tools that can be used to support our teaching in writing.

 1. Zoho Docs
   This is a great web tool that you can use with your students while working on writing collaboratively. It is pretty much similar to Google 

2. Titan Pad

Titan Pad is a writing platform that allows users to collaboratively write and work on a document. It also has the same exciting features the two tools above have like: instant editing and sharing.

3. Blogs

Some of you may familiar with blogs. Writing can be practiced through this web tool. Students just are asked to practice their writing in blog.  Blogs are intrinsically designed to encourage writing and that is the purpose for which they are created after all. Most of our students are already familiar with blogs so why not create a classroom blog and turn it into an online writing workshop for the whole class. Students can use it to post their stories, writing assignments. narratives, comments on school events, write poems and share them with others, and many more. Creating a blog for your classroom is as easy as pie and within a couple of minutes you can have it up and running. Here are some of the blogging platforms that you can use for this purpose.

To make blogs, actually there are some ways we can use. Here are some kinds of blog we can use.

a. Blogger (https://www.blogger.com)

b. WordPress (https://wordpress.com/)

c. Kid Blog (http://kidblog.org/home/)

d. EduBlog (http://edublogs.org/)