Hey All!
I would like to talk about two resources that have proved very useful so far in my explorations of online content for language learning.
Jeff Lebow posted this site earlier, http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/. I have a friend who is an elementary school English teacher and the mother of a wonderful 11 year old. Instead of sending her child to a hagwon for English instruction, she teaches her daughter English every night. I admire her dedication and often spend time talking to her daughter to give her speaking and general conversation practice.I sent her this link and she has begun using the graded level content which is appropriate for her child. She was very grateful for the tip. As a teacher, I find the variety and quality of the activities on this site to be very exciting. There will almost certainly be content I could use and adapt for my lectures at UNIST.
Another great find is the Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org My friends daughter is now using the free Khan academy math course. Her mother is happy because she is studying math in English, which increases and broadens her English abilities, and she is excited and happy because of the integrated learning approach, which uses videos and helpful hints etc. Even I have joined, hoping to find some extra time between lecturing full-time, studying for this course and my other BUFS course, and writing my thesis (starting to get exhausted just writing about it all :o ) to buff up on my math skills in the privacy of my own home, where nobody can judge my rudimentary abilities.
Here is the link to the Khan Academy TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk
If any of you have great learning resources, please share them.
I am finding this blog informative, especially now that I have moved from teaching EFL at public schools to teaching EFL at the university level, http://eslteacherinkorea.blogspot.kr/
Thursday 20 March 2014
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