The success

Finally the efforts they put for their studies rewarded them. Congratulations to my students who have just recieved their Master Degree in TESL. I'm glad I was there in the party to celebrate their success. I don't think I have to say much. Their pictures will paint more than what I can say.

Moreover, there're special performances that I've never expected to see from these people. They're much more talented than I could think of.

Anyway some graduates didn't attend the party but came to take some photos with me later in my office.

This was the place where James commuted many times while he was working on his Individual Studies. For my current students in TESL, I hope I'll post another entry like this again to talk about your success in my blog in the near future.

Thai Life through the lens

I've got a link to some beautiful photoes of Thailand that I think they're quite interesting. I don't want to keep it for my own use, so here I share the link with you. Please make sure you turn your speaker on when you see this. You'll hear some opinion about my country from the photographer. For those who just arrive, it may give you some idea about the country you're going to stay for a while until you finish your studies.

Here it is: http://www.photographythailand.com/Galleries/Audio/navbar.html

enjoy

Free articles on line

I've found some articles on line that may be useful for our courses. Before I forget, I'd like to share with you all these links to those articles.

About Chomsky and you can also link to other texts related: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/chomsky.htm

English language learning and teaching:
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/index.html

Also there're some demonstration teachings on some methods that we didn't have a real presentation

Suggestopedia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXaRZQmtwSY

Silent way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshhHFWwukM&feature=related

Total Physical Response (TPR)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZY6XpB214&feature=related

PowerPoint Presentation

In class on Jan. 9, I talked about a presentation in Youtube.com that I'd like you to see. Its name is Death by PowerPoint. I thought you'd find something useful for your individual presentatation next time. Well, I checked and found that there are more than one Death by PowerPoint in YouTube.com. I'd like you to see this one. Please follow the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfFQ9XU7Jw

To give you more information about PowerPoint, I also put 2 more links on your left column. One leads you to a lot of free PowerPoint templates, and the other is a talk by an expert about reading from the PowerPoint slides. And to make it easier for us to reach this link whenever we feel like, I put this link on the left column too.

After you see these presentations, I hope you can get the ideas about what to do next time.

I can't wait to see your next performance.

What an amazing boy!

For those who were in my Language Acquisition class on the day we discussed "What is language?" I'm sure you could remember a boy singing Jason Mraz's song "I'm Yours". I happened to find more songs by this boy on a website and I think you may love to see his talent so I put this link for you. http://www.youtube.com/user/uke3453#p/u/0/ErMWX--UJZ4

Moreover, there's another boy who is younger than the first one but sings the Beatle's song "Hey Jude" nicely. Amazingly, he really sings the song not just utters it. Check this out and you will understand why I'd like to share this with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8&feature=player_embedded

For those who have never heard the original song. Please follow this link to see Paul McCartney sings Hey Jude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEKgYKpEJ3o&feature=fvw.

If we have time after we finish 'How Languages Are learned', we may discuss about these 2 kids in the field of Language Acquisition, what do you think?

Annotated bibliography

What we discussed today in a our seminar course is how to write an annotated bibliography or annotation. This is what we agreeed upon.


Annotated bibliography (Annotation)

What to be in there?

1. Title of the text Write the title and its citation

Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings
Ellis, R. (2009) Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings. International of Applied Linguistics. 19.3: 221-246

2. Brief content

Research
- Research questions & objectives
- Methodology (quantitative or qualitative or mixed design)
- Population & sample
- Results/ findings
- Application or other thing(s) you found interesting and useful to your work

Theory/ Review
- Brief content
- Samples/ topics

3. Your reflection

-Reflection of how (and why) you want to use this article/ text

And we did some practice in writing those annotations from 3 different articles.

Homework assignment:

1. Write outline of chapter 2 and make some annotations according to that outline.
2. Present some part of chapter 2 using your annotations next time we meet.

You can see more details from this link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

Welcome to my courses

This blog is written for my students in Burapha University. I hope that this can be an easy way to communicate among us while we're away from the class. The links below are supposed to help you find more articles related to the courses.