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ELE 3104

3.1 REFLECTION

Alhamdulillah, first and forever, I would love to thank Allah for everything. On 15th

September 2011, we have been asked to apply our ELE 3104 assessment in

teaching. Therefore, we have to present our lesson plan that we have prepared

earlier for the English Language Teaching Methodology For Young Learners task.

From my observation, many of my friends have chosen standard 3 syllabuses for

their micro teaching processes. I thought, maybe it was going to be easy for them to

prepare a lesson plan and at the same time to do the micro teaching as the topics

are easier and do not involve complex learning such as grammar in writing. For me, I

have determined to choose year 4 topic that was Lets Write and focusing on

Grammar skill which was Irregular verbs. I would like to challenge myself with the

difficulties that I would have faced that I saw not many of us have put this as their

targets or aims. Grammar as we know it is a major problem in learning English for

Second Language for Malays. So here, I really liked to have the real situation of

teaching English at school. So it would be easy for me to find the problem which is to

be assumed as weaknesses.

There were three skills that I was focusing on and it went with three levels

respectively. For the first level, it was Read aloud words, pronouncing correctly. For

the second, Listen to and repeat correct words and the third were Match words to

other words and write simple sentences with the words given. As stated on my

lesson plan, we can refer the Learning outcomes and student prior knowledge,

teaching aids, generic skills and moral values that have devoted in the lesson.

I admit, it was my first time doing this lesson plan and I have faced many problems

and it kept encountering me again and again. My major problem was choosing the

best activity for certain stage. It was not hard to produce the idea, but it was hard

when I had to rethink whether the activity chosen is suitable for students level,

syllabus, time and space and many factors that could be related in the coming

lesson. So the activities that really were available that time was limited.

Nevertheless, the teaching was running smoothly and the problems were solved by

lecturers favors. I had to satisfy with my effort even I have not done my best and I

hope I can do better next time. The teaching process has really helped me in

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developing my skills in teaching. I have recognized my strengths, weaknesses and a

few improvements to be implemented in the future.

Strengths

The strengths of my teaching basically held on my chosen activities. As you can

refer on my lesson plan sheet, I have provided interesting event for teaching and

learning activities which were game on set induction, listen and repeat and singing at

presentation, verb matching at practice, crossword puzzle at production and wheel of

verbs at closure. If I was the student, I would have never been bored in the class.

Kids generally portrayed with playing games, having fun and easy to lose attention.

Therefore, the activities were prepared to tackle those problems from occurring

during my class. My pupils would not play other games if my games are more

interesting than theirs. So, the strength that I would like to high light here is the

activities that I have planned were good enough to attract pupils attention to stay

focus in learning.

Student might not only choose what to study, but what and why that topic might be

interesting one to study (Rogers 1999)

Any fun activity which gives young learners the opportunity to practice the foreign

language in a relaxed and enjoyable way ( Martin 1995)

The fact that I have decided to use all those activities was reasonable. I thought

analytically in choosing activities for every stage in steps. It is because, the activity

chosen plays important role in making my pupils understand and to ensure the

learning outcomes could be achieved at the end of the lesson so that the lesson

would not waste time. Here is another challenge emerged as I have stated earlier.

The activity must be knowledgeable, and suitable for syllabus. Therefore, here I had

to use my creativity and twist my brain to adapt the lesson into games and attractive

activities. What I was looking for was meaningful learning. If my interactive activities

stand alone without any benefit, I should not teach English in school. But here, I

have managed to make my pupils understood about the focused skill which was

irregular verbs. At the presentation stage, I have well planned the activity withteaching aids usage. The reason was, the pupils will more memorize the words by

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reading cards than they do without it. It retain on their mental image longer then

usual because of the combination of a few senses. The way I taught also involved

repetition which I asked my pupils to repeat after my pronunciation upon certain

verbs in present tense and past tense forms. They were parroting me perfectly.

Wozniak once said:

Effective learning must be based on repetition

( Dr. Piotr Wozniak 1998)

Here my goals were listening and pronouncing the words given correctly. Despite the

timing was a little bit off, but they pronounced them well.

The next strength of mine is the usage of interactive teaching aids and materials. I

have used slideshows, words cards, envelopes of word cards for verb matching,

cross words puzzle worksheet and wheel of verbs for my activities. The materials I

used were suitable with the activities executed. All the materials and aids were built

in good looking way and fascinating. I knew children well. They love bright colours as

we can find it on television cartoons and animations. Therefore, I have made my

teaching aids way too bright in colour so they would love them beside, it would be

easy for them to read words on it as it is contrast. Now my teaching aids reallyhelped them. Regarding to several resources, colours play important role in studying,

memorizing words. So, they were lucky to have the aids.

Children remembered colour cues better than verbal cues

( Vuontella 1999)

I also have acted nice in front of my mock pupils. Acting as a nice teacher, I praised

them, gave them thumb up and present to encourage them in learning. As a result,

the pupils seemed happy and motivated. It is called positive reinforcement. Real

children would appreciate their teachers gift even it is not big enough to be

announced. It means, if a teacher gives their student a present, surely it motivates

them to be good in front of the teacher and next to be good in learning.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

(B. F. Skinner)

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should have thought more careful in choosing the best activity to avoid gender bias.

Or maybe I could have combined those activities that executed so the boys and girls

could play and learn together.

For the second problem, It emerged because of my anxiety and reckless. I was so

nervous that I have taken lots of times to calm down and recall the steps in my

teaching process. I suppose this happened because I have prepared the materials

just a day before the event occurred. Therefore, I was not well prepared even

thought I have done the preparation before the teaching. Technically, I was not

familiar with my aids and materials and I did not practice as if I was an excellent

teacher. Therefore, the answer to my problem is of course to prepare the materials

earlier so that I can muster the aids that I built. I should have been better prepared

then my usual preparation. That is what a trainee does.

ELE 3102 Reflection

Reflection

AssalamualaikumThank Allah for everything. This semester, My Priciples of

English Language Teaching (ELE 3102 ) subject is taught by Mr. Azman bin

Mohamed Nor.We were asked to finish the assignment according to coursework

given in 15 August 2010. We were required to collect and compile information from

all related articles about this subject. So, I went to library to collect the information

and find it in the internet. We also collect the information from articles and books.

After we have done a few researches, we have to build concept maps and a few

notes and summary regarding to the information compiled.

The concept map has to be build based on our understanding regarding to the

articles. From the articles, we have used the understanding and create own way to

make a short notes and mind maps. From this activity, I have learn how find the key

words and understanding the question requirements. The topic was quiet general.

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So, it was depending on ourselves how to finish the job and make it quiet

presentable. From this activity, I also have understood more and have gone deeper

about the subject. This is because I have to understand the articles and acquire it

before the mind map construction. So, I hope this knowledge could be used for

examination and more in the future in being a good teacher

For the next task, my friends and I were required to make a daily lesson plan as the

task given. We have chosen a year five topic, Animals in the farm. So, we all

together have discussed and decided to make a power point slideshow and a video

regarding the animals in farm. The commitment given by all members were

completely helping in the coursework finishing. Although, we have faced a few

problems such as decision making, lack of ideas and time shortage. Therefore, we

have divided all the works to each members of the group. So, they have their own

work to be done.

After we have done the lesson plan and the slide show, we have to present it in

macro-teaching in the class. So have to carry out the lesson plan complete the

lesson for half an hour. Once again the each member was given a certain task in the

teaching. All the feed back were accepted and analyzed in a report. The suggestions

and recommendations were written in pair work. This report is really important so we

may know our level and ability to a teacher. These activities trained us in how to be a

great teacher. From here, we might see our strengths and weaknesses in teaching.

So I really hope that I could improve my teaching skills and be more confident in

order to be a good teacher.

Even I have faced many problems while doing these tasks. I have managed to finish

the assignment as well as I can. The problems faced such as misconception about

the task, mechanical problem and many more. I also have to finish the task with

other subject assignment. Therefore, I really have to manage my time properly and

spent a few time for this assignment. I really felt grateful after my friend and I have

finished the task given steps by step and time by time. Therefore, here I would like to

thanks Mr Azman bin Mohamed Nor for his help and guide. Without him, maybe I

could not finish the task and fulfill the task acquirements. So, once again I would like

to say thanks for those who involved in finishing this coursework. Thank you.