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Monday 29 October 2012
FACEBOOK FOR TEACHING
How Could We Use
Facebook to Teach Writing?
Reading and
Writing are interlinked. Reading messages, friend’s requests, notifications and
going through a friend’s profile would develop one’s reading skill. Through
reading, students can acquire information, knowledge, a large vocabulary and a
good command over the language. The more a person reads, the more effectively
he will write. Writing blog, paragraphs, essays and stories can be implemented.
This will improve one’s standard of writing as it is a process of creation and
not a mechanical production. In Facebook, writing on the wall is one special
feature. This enhances a person’s writing skill and helps a learner to
establish a healthy rapport with one’s peers. The instructor can also tag
pictures and ask students to comment on it. This will sharpen their observation
skill and critical thinking.
Jack and the Beanstalk Anyone would wonder the rational behind publishing this story in this
blog. I still could recall the days when my mom used to tell this story when I was young. She used her mother tongue when these stories were told. Nowadays I wonder how could she knew these stories because she never had her formal education properly when she was young. Si Tanggang and Batu Belah Batu Bertangkup were the other Malay stories she used to tell me. However Jack and the Beanstalk is always my favourite bedtime story. I used to ask many
questions to my mom regarding the existence of giant, magic beans and so
on. She never failed to answer my questions. Mom was my first
educator who instilled the habit of listening to stories where at later part helped me to become an avid reader of story books. Fairy tales in one way nurture positive values among students. It
will help students to understand cross-cultural values of other
communities in this world. Teachers should start telling these stories
again.....
Sunday 21 October 2012
Why Attitude is Important?
Why Attitude is Important?
Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of
life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and
negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive
changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful.
With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and
expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth
developing and strengthening.
Attitude
Attitude can be defined as a set of beliefs developed
in a due course of time in a given sociocultural setting. Although it
necessarily so not determine behaviour but can have some impact on it. It is
studied that positive attitude facilitates learning. If the learners are
reluctant to learn or do not have a positive attitude they do not produce any
result. Language learning is affected by the attitude and motivation.
Motivated, demotivated and amotivated students have different perceptions of
their class, teacher and curriculum. Their perceptions are responsible for
their attitudes. An individual’s perception of the class, perception of the
teacher, peer group, syllabus and awareness for future needs affects their
attitude to language learning.
Teacher’s Attitude
Teachers’ attitude plays an important role in the
present context. They have to change their role from being the controller of
the class to the facilitator. They must accept students’ mistakes as a
necessary part of the learning. They need to help and motivate students to
learn in their daily life. Learners learning outcomes are influenced by the
interpretation of teachers’ interpersonal behaviour. If they believe that the
teacher is associated with them and their learning outcome, the teacher empathize
with them, understands their problems, they react positively and this factor
contributes to their motivation level in the classroom.
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