A Message from Summer
Are you interested in sharing your writing in other ESL blogs? For more information, see below.
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Hello,
One of your students, Christina, enthusiastically selected my site as a Favorite ESL site! I was very honored.
I was wondering: What is the full name of their school - "NCU" - and where is it located?
Also, would your students like to each chose a piece of writing they did in English, for me to post on my site -- so that others can enjoy their work? I have been looking for student writing to post and share.
I am an ESOL certified teacher. I have a new blog where you can post their work if they want to share it, and you can write back to me if you like: CLICK HERE.
I am guessing you are their teacher. If not, please let their teacher know I wrote this message. Thanks!
Have a great day! :)
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For more information about this weblog, see Christina's post.
Christina--Stuff in English Learning: My three favorite ESL Blogs
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4 comments:
m.y., thank you for sharing my message with your students! I wrote a new post to them HERE.
你好，
我也是中央英文系大四的學生，我看我同學上這門課做一些跟學習英文有關的網站覺得很有趣，所以來此逛逛。
我來很坦誠的說一下我的感覺好了。沒有惡意...先說對不起，我沒有很認真的看過整個網站，所以以下淺見如果有不妥請見諒。
第一點我認為，英語教學的網站用全英文的對於要學英文的人會有困難。英文都不好的人本身對看英文這件事有莫名的恐懼感，英語教學的目的是激發學習英文的興趣，而不是以更多的英文嚇跑別人！我相信本站有許多有趣的英語資源，但是全英文的頁面真的不太便利，更何況，這是台灣人自己架的站，為什麼不直接用中文介紹，才比較便利及體恤英文不好的人?
第二，我覺得在台灣一個整合英語資源的網站是很需要的，我看你們花很多心血在這方面，做了這麼多網站、介紹那麼多有趣的東西但是卻沒有整合，在這裡沒有整合的意思是...我知道好像每個學生都有自己的英語教學網站，如果全部學生找到的資源都集中在同一個網站會不會更好? 像是林文淇老師網頁尚有許許多多學習英文的網站連結而且都有分門別類我覺得很棒!!
再來就是我最後的疑惑了，我第一點建議是在認定此網頁的讀者設定為"想學英文的人"所以才會這麼說，當然如果讀者是老師的話就另當別論。所以我的疑惑是這網站的觀眾群是??
我覺得這個網頁的用意很棒，如果可以有更好的統整真的會很有用處，我相信老師真的是很用心在架設這個網頁!
最後我要說的是以上言論與其他修課的同學無關，這真的是我自己，同樣身為一位學習英文的愛好者感想的抒發，打擾了，謝謝。
Gina, thank you for the following two questions or suggestions on this weblog:
1. Why don't you and your students blog in Chinese to help those who want to learn English in Taiwan?
2. Why don't you collect and integrate all of your students' work in a group blog or a website?
I think ESL blogs serve different purposes and reflect appropriateness to differences among learners' English proficiency, learning styles, motivation, etc. The OEL course is offered in English, i.e., using English is one of the pedagogical decisions. The purpose is to encourage students to learn and communicate through the English language for their life-long English learning and to reach out to bloggers across cultures.
Indeed, students and I have capitalized on our weblogs both in and out of the classroom. However, students and I did not put all of the course materials on the weblogs. Neither did we use weblogs as resources integration centers. There are some reasons. First, weblogs might not be efficient in fulfilling these two specific uses. Instead I chose to display selected pieces of student work. Second, content developers and blog users might interpret weblogs in different ways at different stages. In this sense, the weblogs play different roles at different stages of development.
Nevertheless, many students in the OEL class have searched and found content relevant to topics of English learning and teaching, and have shared their online learning experiences, which will help other learners to learn English. They also might be willing to be monitored and evaluated, which allow others'(teachers, students, or bloggers) diagnostic assessment of their learning ITO problem-solving, communication and collaboraion, English reading and writing, creativity and production, etc.
I wish you had been in my Online English Learning classes. The OEL class discussed many ideas about using blogs or other technologies in the EFL classroom. For example, we shared diverse views about similarities and differences between weblogs and traditional ESL websites.
BTW, I visited your blog for the "English Bible Study" class. You are blogging in both English
and Chinese, aren't you? Keep up with your good work. I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
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