Learning  Log 7

    16 August 2016

To day , I learned about  many Thai false friends words. 

It is very important when  I learn the true meaning of each word. 

Then I do exercise about  Thai false friends that Thai people used in many way. After that I presented Applying Innovative Spirit to Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching  by Zhuo Zhu from China. 

           Group 1  presented about  Abstract and Introduction

           Group 2  presented about  Multimedia  Teaching  and  the  Innovative  of  Education Ideas

           Group 3  presented about  Exerting the advantages of  Multimedia Teaching and Exploring New Patterns of  Language  Teaching

           Group 4  Problems and Solutions  Related to Multimedia Teaching

This article  make me know new knowledge and can should the Multimedia for teaching in the future.

     Learning Log 6 

     9  August 2016 

This week , I learned about how to collect the data into my corpus and the method to English language for teaching methodology  such as Terminologies and collocation ,local grammar , style and content knowledge.I learnt about how diffidence between English corpus and Thai corpus that make me know the all of the words the native speaker used, and tell me where to find all of the examples of that word. Concordances can help me look for words in different contexts, and suggest other words that may be related to the word I have learned.Finally , I learned about false friends word in corpus and translation.

    Learning Log 5

    2  August 2016

This week , I learned about built my corpus linguistics. I can download free program antconc  from  http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software.html. Then, I learned information and process for built my corpus from my teacher. Finally, I found information from many website and into notepad and I can check information with antconc.

Encouraging Learner Independence and teacher ask me  7 importance question in this article is 

  1.What is the purpose of this project?
     
     This project aimed at motivating students to take advantage of authentic environment outside the classroom in order to practice language skill and communicate with others.

  2.How was the data collected?

      

     Data were collected from learn.

  3.What were the results of pre-project questionnaire?

  

   No students had a blog prior to the class,and only two learner had any knowledge of blogs.  The learners responded that they wanted t communicate, make friend, develop writing skills, and learn about classmates. 

  4.What were the results of post-project Questionnaire?

    The learners spent 30 minutes/week working on the project.Three learner spent between 10-15 minutes,and two spent more than one hour blogging each week.

  5.What are the advantages of blog?

• The students enjoyed using blogs in the classroom.Eight learners agree that they enjoyed interacting.Seven learners cited that they thought their writing skill and improved from participating in the project.Five learners responded that the project assiste them in learning and using  new vocabulary.Two learners practice in technology. Two learners thinking in English. One learner practice in grammar skill and  last learner practice typing.     

  6.What are the disadvantages of blog?

• 1. picture software was too difficult to understand and use
• 2.The assignment was too time - consuming and or should have been done in class
• 3. The website was only in English and it was difficult to understand 
• 4. Free- writing is too difficult 
• 5. Teacher should give fewer topics and allow more free writing 
• 6. Teacher should assign more assignments to be done on the blog 
• 7. There should be a listening option where students can talk and share music.     

  7.What are the suggestions to improve the project?

• Blogging is a writing activity and therefore it is not  surprising that learners perceivved that the project helped their writing however is that every learner responded that the reason they took the course was to improve their speaking and comunication.