Friday, September 12, 2008

Four Skill? Are you sure you have them all?

Even though the submission of Assignment 2 was postponed, life is still never easy. This week we are given another task to do, which is the four language skill task. In groups of four, we are to take a language skill each, and design an activity for any stage of the particular skill lesson.

What I did for this task is just to go online and search for recording because i am doing listening skill. It was not easy to find a suitable recording to be use. I have to cater the level of proficiency of the primary ESL classroom in Malaysia. Here, choosing the appropriate material is important as in out of many recordings online, I have to choose something which is suitable for the children in Malaysia. For instance, if the accent of the recording that is chosen is too different from what the children hear daily, they would definitely find it difficult to listen to the recording.

I spent some time in front of the laptop and after a few hours only I managed to find a suitable recording. I understand that we have to be very careful as in choosing the wrong materials is definitely not going to benefit the pupils.

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